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