Description: Explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency.
Brief description: Yue Zhuang is Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, UK.
Review Quotes:
"Each of the essays in this timely and luminous collection requires that we rethink our understanding of the restorative mystery and wonder of the garden, and how their numinous poise serves to generate new ways of inhabiting our fragmented world." --Duncan Campbell, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
"Garden retreats are constructed places enabling new ways of life in a troubled world, past and present. This cross-cultural and multi-perspective anthology demonstrates a fruitful dimension in the studies of garden history, where diversity gives rise to comparative re-thinking of the fundamentals." --Xin Conan-Wu, William & Mary, USA and the author of Lure of the Supreme Joy