Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden
Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden
$55.00
Schwarcz, Vera
Cl. Philadelphia, 2008
Book ID: 78003
Chronicles the history of Beijing's Singing Crane Garden which was built by the Manchu prince Mianyu in the mid-nineteenth century as a refuge from the clutter of daily life near the Forbidden City. Destroyed in 1860 during the Anglo-French war in China, the garden later served as the "ox pens" where dissident professors were imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. Today the Arthur Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology and the Jillian Sackler Sculpture Garden stand on this site.
260 pp., 44 b&w illus.