Sets forth novel concepts in Chinese garden design, and offers an scholarly approach to the subject The material is presented in a lucid and elegant style, with many highly rhythmic sentences in the original Chinese that are capable of being chanted A classic introduction to the art of the Chinese garden, with in-depth theory and literary value This book is a classic of theoretical writing on Chinese gardens by Tongji University Professor Chen Zongzhou, a well-known authority on Chinese gardens. Here, the author sets forth new and novel concepts in garden design and propounds a set of distinctive and penetrating ideas on the subject, including the arrangement of scenes, "in-motion" and "in-position" types of gardens, the handling of hills and water, the planning of buildings, and the laying out of flowers and trees. It elucidates the arrangement of gardens and shows how these relate to human sentiments, and how what is tangible in the garden relates to the intangible