Author: Peter Valder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780297825494
Category : Landscape plants
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
It is hard to imagine gardens without peonies, flowering peaches, camellias, gardenias, azaleas, wisteria, forsythia, crabapples, and the host of other ornamentals that were introduced first in Chinese gardens. The Chinese plants with the greatest impact on the gardens of the world have actually come from Chinese gardens and nurseries.
The Garden Plants of China
Author: Peter Valder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780297825494
Category : Landscape plants
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
It is hard to imagine gardens without peonies, flowering peaches, camellias, gardenias, azaleas, wisteria, forsythia, crabapples, and the host of other ornamentals that were introduced first in Chinese gardens. The Chinese plants with the greatest impact on the gardens of the world have actually come from Chinese gardens and nurseries.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780297825494
Category : Landscape plants
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
It is hard to imagine gardens without peonies, flowering peaches, camellias, gardenias, azaleas, wisteria, forsythia, crabapples, and the host of other ornamentals that were introduced first in Chinese gardens. The Chinese plants with the greatest impact on the gardens of the world have actually come from Chinese gardens and nurseries.
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
Author: Zhuqing Li
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393541789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A BookBrowse Best Nonfiction for Book Clubs in 2024 “Exceptional…[A] gripping narrative of one family divided by the ‘bamboo curtain.’” —Deirdre Mask, New York Times Book Review Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brought political revolution, violence, and a fractured national identity. By a quirk of timing, at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Jun ended up on an island under Nationalist control, and then settled in Taiwan, married a Nationalist general, and lived among fellow exiles at odds with everything the new Communist regime stood for on the mainland. Hong found herself an ocean away on the mainland, forced to publicly disavow both her own family background and her sister’s decision to abandon the party. A doctor by training, to overcome the suspicion created by her family circumstances, Hong endured two waves of “re-education” and internal exile, forced to work in some of the most desperately poor, remote areas of the country. Ambitious, determined, and resourceful, both women faced morally fraught decisions as they forged careers and families in the midst of political and social upheaval. Jun established one of U.S.-allied Taiwan’s most important trading companies. Hong became one of the most celebrated doctors in China, appearing on national media and honored for her dedication to medicine. Niece to both sisters, linguist and East Asian scholar Zhuqing Li tells her aunts’ story for the first time, honoring her family’s history with sympathy and grace. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden is a window into the lives of women in twentieth-century China, a time of traumatic change and unparalleled resilience. In this riveting and deeply personal account, Li confronts the bitter political rivals of mainland China and Taiwan with elegance and unique insight, while celebrating her aunts’ remarkable legacies.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393541789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A BookBrowse Best Nonfiction for Book Clubs in 2024 “Exceptional…[A] gripping narrative of one family divided by the ‘bamboo curtain.’” —Deirdre Mask, New York Times Book Review Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brought political revolution, violence, and a fractured national identity. By a quirk of timing, at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Jun ended up on an island under Nationalist control, and then settled in Taiwan, married a Nationalist general, and lived among fellow exiles at odds with everything the new Communist regime stood for on the mainland. Hong found herself an ocean away on the mainland, forced to publicly disavow both her own family background and her sister’s decision to abandon the party. A doctor by training, to overcome the suspicion created by her family circumstances, Hong endured two waves of “re-education” and internal exile, forced to work in some of the most desperately poor, remote areas of the country. Ambitious, determined, and resourceful, both women faced morally fraught decisions as they forged careers and families in the midst of political and social upheaval. Jun established one of U.S.-allied Taiwan’s most important trading companies. Hong became one of the most celebrated doctors in China, appearing on national media and honored for her dedication to medicine. Niece to both sisters, linguist and East Asian scholar Zhuqing Li tells her aunts’ story for the first time, honoring her family’s history with sympathy and grace. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden is a window into the lives of women in twentieth-century China, a time of traumatic change and unparalleled resilience. In this riveting and deeply personal account, Li confronts the bitter political rivals of mainland China and Taiwan with elegance and unique insight, while celebrating her aunts’ remarkable legacies.
Gifts from the Gardens of China
Author: Jane Kilpatrick
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
ISBN: 9780711226302
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Celebrates the skilled gardeners of Imperial China through new research that opens a new chapter in the story of our garden plants.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
ISBN: 9780711226302
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Celebrates the skilled gardeners of Imperial China through new research that opens a new chapter in the story of our garden plants.
The Garden Flowers of China
Author: Hui-Lin Li
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Guide to the Flowers of Western China
Author: Christopher Grey-Wilson
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN: 9781842467961
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A completely revised and updated second edition of the essential field guide and reference work. Since the publication of the first edition of Guide to the Flowers of Western China in 2011, there have been great strides in knowledge of the flora of China through international collaboration. Many plants included in the first edition have been revisited in the wild, while areas hitherto inaccessible have opened up, if sometimes only temporarily. Great advances in systematic botany have occurred since the publication of the first edition, particularly with the widespread availability of rapid DNA analysis. The result of this has been an influx of new photographs and data, and the need for a second edition of Guide to the Flowers of Western China.
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN: 9781842467961
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A completely revised and updated second edition of the essential field guide and reference work. Since the publication of the first edition of Guide to the Flowers of Western China in 2011, there have been great strides in knowledge of the flora of China through international collaboration. Many plants included in the first edition have been revisited in the wild, while areas hitherto inaccessible have opened up, if sometimes only temporarily. Great advances in systematic botany have occurred since the publication of the first edition, particularly with the widespread availability of rapid DNA analysis. The result of this has been an influx of new photographs and data, and the need for a second edition of Guide to the Flowers of Western China.
Gardens in China
Author: Peter Valder
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN: 9780881925555
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Describes more than 200 gardens in China from temple courtyards, ancient burial grounds, and imperial tombs to public parks, botanical gardens, and arboreta.
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN: 9780881925555
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Describes more than 200 gardens in China from temple courtyards, ancient burial grounds, and imperial tombs to public parks, botanical gardens, and arboreta.
The Plants of China
Author: De-Yuan Hong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107070171
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
A unique addition to the botanical literature, this book presents the flora of China in its astonishing diversity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107070171
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
A unique addition to the botanical literature, this book presents the flora of China in its astonishing diversity.
Garden Flowers
Author: Edward Sprague Rand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Herbal Emissaries
Author: Steven Foster
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892813490
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Herbal Emissaries is the first collaboration between a Chinese scientist and an American herbalist, blending traditional wisdom from both cultures with scientific verification of the effectiveness of forty-four medicinal plants. The authors supply specific techniques for cultivating these Chinese herbs and flowers in Western gardens and explain their medicinal use.
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892813490
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Herbal Emissaries is the first collaboration between a Chinese scientist and an American herbalist, blending traditional wisdom from both cultures with scientific verification of the effectiveness of forty-four medicinal plants. The authors supply specific techniques for cultivating these Chinese herbs and flowers in Western gardens and explain their medicinal use.
Peach Blossom Spring
Author: Richard M. Barnhart
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870993585
Category : Flowers in art
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870993585
Category : Flowers in art
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description