Chan, Yuen Lai. / Thesis submitted in: December 2007. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-133). / Abstracts in English and Chinese ; some text in appendix also in Chinese. / Abstract / Acknowledgement / Table of Contents / Chapter 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- PAINTER'S EXPERIENCE IN LANDSCAPE --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Bodily experience and body metaphor of place from western philosophy --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- "Jing, Guo Xi 226}0ةs three distances, and body as mountain and water" --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2 --- QUESTIONS AND HYPOTHESIS --- p.9 / Chapter 1.3 --- RESEARCH MATERIALS --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- "Forms, words and images" --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- Research materials --- p.11 / Chapter 1.4 --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.11 / Chapter 1.4.1 --- Study of gardens from paintings --- p.11 / Chapter 1.4.2 --- Research methodology --- p.14 / Chapter 1.5 --- OUTLINE OF THESIS --- p.14 / Chapter 2 --- LANDSCAPED GARDEN FROM LANDSCAPE PAINTING --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1 --- WAYS OF LANDSCAPE DEPICTION --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Early landscape depictions --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Cultivated garden in natural landscape from Six Dynasties --- p.18 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Monumental landscape in Northern Song --- p.19 / Chapter 2.2 --- EARLY QING NANJING --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- "Geographical settings: Mountain, water and city" --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Garden culture --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Artistic milieu --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3 --- CHAPTER SUMMARY --- p.26 / Chapter 3 --- GONG XIAN: HALF-ACRE GARDEN ON THE MOUNTAIN OF PURE COOLNESS --- p.32 / Chapter 3.1 --- GONG XIAN THE LITERATI PAINTER --- p.32 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Major Iiteratures on Gong Xian --- p.32 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Gong Xian as an 'individualist' painter --- p.34 / Chapter 3.2 --- HALF-ACRE GARDEN ON MOUNTAIN OF PURE COOLNESS --- p.38 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Mountain of Pure Coolness as a historical site --- p.39 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Half-acre garden set within Mountain of Pare Coolness --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- A glimpse through half-acre garden --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3 --- PERMEABLE GARDEN SPACE --- p.47 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Ambiguous boundary --- p.48 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Everyday social encounters --- p.49 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Narrated landscape of the past --- p.52 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Imaginary landscape of the mind --- p.53 / Chapter 3.4 --- CHAPTER SUMMARY --- p.54 / Chapter 4 --- YUAN JIANG: ZHAN YUAN [OUTLOOK GARDEN] --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1 --- YUAN JIANG THE PROFESSIONAL PAINTER --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Major literatures on Yuan Jiang --- p.61 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Yuan Jiang as a jiehua painter --- p.62 / Chapter 4.2 --- ZHAN YUAN --- p.67 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- The evolutionary fame and popularity of the garden and its designations --- p.68 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- West Garden of Prince Zhongshan in early Ming --- p.68 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- West Nursery of Weigong in Ming Wanli reign --- p.69 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Zhan Yuan during Qing --- p.70 / Chapter 4.3 --- TRANSFIGURED GARDEN --- p.77 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- "Survey on the garden 226}0ةs sceneries, and courtly and paradisiac symbols" --- p.77 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Garden portraiture as courtly and paradisiac landscape --- p.80 / Chapter 4.4 --- CHAPTER SUMMARY --- p.82 / Chapter 5 --- SUMMARY AND POSSIBILITIES: PAINTER'S PERCEPTION OF GARDEN SPACES --- p.90 / Chapter 5.1 --- JING OF AN EXPERIENCED GARDEN --- p.90 / Chapter 5.2 --- TWO GARDEN READINGS FROM TWO ART TRADITIONS --- p.90 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Garden boundary and conception --- p.90 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Archetypal garden readings --- p.91 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Themes of the memorable and the historical past --- p.92 / Chapter 5.3 --- INSIGHTS AND POSSIBILITIES --- p.92 / Append --- p.ix / Bibliography