Nov 1980
VOLUME 11 - NUMBER 11
Chinese Gardens
700 Years of Cizhou Wares
Yangze Life
Inside Inner Mongolia
Walled Cities
Tibetan Buddhism in China
Chengde, Imperial Summer City
Bai Xueshi and Li Kuchan
Cover. Shaped holes are a prominent feature in Chinese gardens. Sometimes the gardener utilizes the view through the hole, dramatizing the effect of what lies beyond (see page 38 and 39). At other times he creates a pleasing pattern within the framework of the hole, as in this example in a Suzhou garden. Photograph by Barry Broman.
Our China issue features an interest assortment of contributors and topics. From beyond the Great Wall Paul Gillingham and Manshih Yonfan bring a glimpse of life in Inner Mongolia. Photographer Manshih Yonfan spent a year in China at government invitation and has published a book of his visual impressions. Tibetans and their lamaseries in the frontier provinces of China are a special interest of Peter Humphrey, a teacher in Beijing. Chengde, the site of an imperial summer city of temples and gardens, is discussed in ORIENTGUIDE.
Museum curator Yutaka Mino is a leading expert on China’s Cizhou ceramic wares. Maggie Keswick grew up in China and Hong Kong and has developed a longstanding love of Chinese gardens into a superb book on the subject. A HISTORY on the walled cities of China is offered by Ronald G. Knapp who co-edited the translation of a classic Japanese language study of 100 Chinese cities. Primerose Gigliesi has lived in Beijing since the early 1960s. Her profiles of Li Kuchan and Lao Bai derive from a book on contemporary Chinese artists now in preparation. Caroline Courtauld steamed through the Yangze’s famous gorges and Steven Butler was an exchange scholar who spent six months in a commune of northern China. Nancy Berliner monitors PRC – T. V. programs for a major American news broadcasting network.
Fred S. Armentrout
FEATURES
Steven Butler. Dahe Commune
Nancy Berliner. PRC – T.V.Caroline Courtauld. Yangze Sojourn
Paul Gillingham. Inside Inner Mongolia
Yutaka Mino. Seven Centuries of Cizhou Wares
Maggie Keswick. The Chinese Garden
Ronald G. Knapp. Walled Cities – Knots in a Cosmic Landscape
Peter Humphrey. Lamaseries – Landmarks of the Tibetan Fringelands
Folk Art on Fireworks Labels
Primerose Gigliesi. Lao Bai’s Landscapes
Prenerose Gigliesi. Li Kuchan’s Birds and Flowers
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Marcia Hare. Chengde, Imperial Summer City
Book Review: Zao Wou-ki by Jean Leymarie
Book Review: Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk
Book Review: China Image by Manshih Yonfan
VOLUME 11 - NUMBER 11
Chinese Gardens
700 Years of Cizhou Wares
Yangze Life
Inside Inner Mongolia
Walled Cities
Tibetan Buddhism in China
Chengde, Imperial Summer City
Bai Xueshi and Li Kuchan
Cover. Shaped holes are a prominent feature in Chinese gardens. Sometimes the gardener utilizes the view through the hole, dramatizing the effect of what lies beyond (see page 38 and 39). At other times he creates a pleasing pattern within the framework of the hole, as in this example in a Suzhou garden. Photograph by Barry Broman.
Our China issue features an interest assortment of contributors and topics. From beyond the Great Wall Paul Gillingham and Manshih Yonfan bring a glimpse of life in Inner Mongolia. Photographer Manshih Yonfan spent a year in China at government invitation and has published a book of his visual impressions. Tibetans and their lamaseries in the frontier provinces of China are a special interest of Peter Humphrey, a teacher in Beijing. Chengde, the site of an imperial summer city of temples and gardens, is discussed in ORIENTGUIDE.
Museum curator Yutaka Mino is a leading expert on China’s Cizhou ceramic wares. Maggie Keswick grew up in China and Hong Kong and has developed a longstanding love of Chinese gardens into a superb book on the subject. A HISTORY on the walled cities of China is offered by Ronald G. Knapp who co-edited the translation of a classic Japanese language study of 100 Chinese cities. Primerose Gigliesi has lived in Beijing since the early 1960s. Her profiles of Li Kuchan and Lao Bai derive from a book on contemporary Chinese artists now in preparation. Caroline Courtauld steamed through the Yangze’s famous gorges and Steven Butler was an exchange scholar who spent six months in a commune of northern China. Nancy Berliner monitors PRC – T. V. programs for a major American news broadcasting network.
Fred S. Armentrout
FEATURES
Steven Butler. Dahe Commune
Nancy Berliner. PRC – T.V.Caroline Courtauld. Yangze Sojourn
Paul Gillingham. Inside Inner Mongolia
Yutaka Mino. Seven Centuries of Cizhou Wares
Maggie Keswick. The Chinese Garden
Ronald G. Knapp. Walled Cities – Knots in a Cosmic Landscape
Peter Humphrey. Lamaseries – Landmarks of the Tibetan Fringelands
Folk Art on Fireworks Labels
Primerose Gigliesi. Lao Bai’s Landscapes
Prenerose Gigliesi. Li Kuchan’s Birds and Flowers
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Marcia Hare. Chengde, Imperial Summer City
Book Review: Zao Wou-ki by Jean Leymarie
Book Review: Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk
Book Review: China Image by Manshih Yonfan
VOLUME 11 - NUMBER 11
Chinese Gardens
700 Years of Cizhou Wares
Yangze Life
Inside Inner Mongolia
Walled Cities
Tibetan Buddhism in China
Chengde, Imperial Summer City
Bai Xueshi and Li Kuchan
Cover. Shaped holes are a prominent feature in Chinese gardens. Sometimes the gardener utilizes the view through the hole, dramatizing the effect of what lies beyond (see page 38 and 39). At other times he creates a pleasing pattern within the framework of the hole, as in this example in a Suzhou garden. Photograph by Barry Broman.
Our China issue features an interest assortment of contributors and topics. From beyond the Great Wall Paul Gillingham and Manshih Yonfan bring a glimpse of life in Inner Mongolia. Photographer Manshih Yonfan spent a year in China at government invitation and has published a book of his visual impressions. Tibetans and their lamaseries in the frontier provinces of China are a special interest of Peter Humphrey, a teacher in Beijing. Chengde, the site of an imperial summer city of temples and gardens, is discussed in ORIENTGUIDE.
Museum curator Yutaka Mino is a leading expert on China’s Cizhou ceramic wares. Maggie Keswick grew up in China and Hong Kong and has developed a longstanding love of Chinese gardens into a superb book on the subject. A HISTORY on the walled cities of China is offered by Ronald G. Knapp who co-edited the translation of a classic Japanese language study of 100 Chinese cities. Primerose Gigliesi has lived in Beijing since the early 1960s. Her profiles of Li Kuchan and Lao Bai derive from a book on contemporary Chinese artists now in preparation. Caroline Courtauld steamed through the Yangze’s famous gorges and Steven Butler was an exchange scholar who spent six months in a commune of northern China. Nancy Berliner monitors PRC – T. V. programs for a major American news broadcasting network.
Fred S. Armentrout
FEATURES
Steven Butler. Dahe Commune
Nancy Berliner. PRC – T.V.Caroline Courtauld. Yangze Sojourn
Paul Gillingham. Inside Inner Mongolia
Yutaka Mino. Seven Centuries of Cizhou Wares
Maggie Keswick. The Chinese Garden
Ronald G. Knapp. Walled Cities – Knots in a Cosmic Landscape
Peter Humphrey. Lamaseries – Landmarks of the Tibetan Fringelands
Folk Art on Fireworks Labels
Primerose Gigliesi. Lao Bai’s Landscapes
Prenerose Gigliesi. Li Kuchan’s Birds and Flowers
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Marcia Hare. Chengde, Imperial Summer City
Book Review: Zao Wou-ki by Jean Leymarie
Book Review: Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk
Book Review: China Image by Manshih Yonfan