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LECTURE ONE CHINESE PAINTING 1

General Characteristics of Chinese Painting 1

History of Chinese Painting 3

LECTURE TWO CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY 12

LECTURE THREE TRADITIONAL CHINESE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND THE AESTHETICS INVOLVED 24

History of Chinese Garden 24

Yihe Yuan (The Summer Palace) 28

Beihai Park 31

Chengde:Emperor Qianlong's Summer Retreat 33

General Characteristics of Chinese Gardens Today 39

LECTURE FOUR CHINESE PALACE ARCHITECTURE AND THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE 41

History of Chinese Palace Architecture 41

The Palace Museum 46

The Potala Palace 49

History of Imperial Tombs and Mausoleums 52

LECTURE FIVE CHINESE IMPERIAL MAUSOLEUMS AND TOMBS 52

Buildings in Imperial Mausoleums 57

Underground Palace 62

Burial of Sacrificial Objects with the Dead 67

Ming Tombs 75

LECTURE SIX CHINESE RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE AND THE AESTHETICS INVOLVED 84

Introduction to Chinese Religious Architecture 84

Chinese Temple Architecture 85

Symbolism 85

Symbolism in Religious Architecture 88

Chinese Buddhist Pagodas 91

Tiantan 95

LECTURE SEVEN SUN ZI'S MILITARY ART AND CHINESE MILITARY TRADITION 97

Sun Wu's Contribution to the Chinese Military Tradition 97

Sun Wu's Teaching and Military Thought in the Imperial Period 107

Chinese and Western Approaches to War 112

LECTURE EIGHT CONFUCIANISM AND CHINESE CULTURE 117