CONTENTS 5
PREFACE 5
CHAPTER 1 SHENXIU SIYONG,LIANXI LECHU,YUANMING YUAN 11
1.1 YUANMING YUAN, THE FIRST PARA-PALACE OF QING DYNASTY 11
1.2 LIANXI LECHU, ONE OF 40 SCENERIES IN YUANMING YUAN 19
1.2.1 Designing Concept of the Scenes in the Yuanming Yuan 20
1.2.2 Layout Artistic Concept of the 40 Scenes in Yuanming Yuan Lianxi Lechu 21
1.2.3 Lianxi Lechu, one of the forty sceneries of Yuanming Yuan 27
1.3 LIANXI LECHU SHENXIU SIYONG: IN THE 21ST YEAR OF QIANLONG PERIOD 31
2.1.1 Overall Review Of Historical Material on Interior Design of Qing Court 33
2.1 ON HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATIONS 33
CHAPTER 2 STUDY ON INTERIOR OF SHENXIU SIYONG 33
2.1.2 Imperial Archives Survived Disasters 35
2.1.3 Distributed Collections of Architectural Representations 36
2.1.4 Prints and Transcripts of Zeli 38
2.2 TOOLS FOR INTERPRETATION OF HISTORIC DRAWINGS 39
2.2.1 How to Decode Qing Architectural Drawings? 39
2.2.2 On Legends 41
2.2.3 On Notes Labels 45
2.3 INTERPRETATIONS ANALYSES 47
2.3.1 Shenxiu Siyong In Imperial Archives 47
2.3.2 Drawings and Note about Shenxiu Siyong 49
2.3.3 Interior Layout and Function of Shenxiu Siyong 52
3.1 INTERIOR DESIGN IN MID-QING COURT 57
3.1.1 Types and Characteristics of Interior Spaces 57
CHAPTER 3 DRY ANALYSES FLAVOROUS CONCLUSION 57
3.1.2 Annotations to Exemplifications and Regulation for Imperial Interior Works 61
3.1.3 Design Procedure and Management 61
3.2 RECORDS REMNANTS OF IMPERIAL INTERIOR THEATRE 63
3.2.1 Pavilion Stage 64
3.2.2 Simple Stage 65
3.2.3 Special Stage 66
3.3 HAD QIANLONG BEEN A PLAYACTOR IN SHENXIU SIYONG? 67
4.1 TWO CLIMAX OF INTERIOR DESIGN IN QING COURT 71
CHAPTER 4 SHENXIU SIYONG, OF QIANLONG VERSION CIXI VERSION 71
4.2 EXTANT ARCHIVE INTERIOR SPACE DEPICTED 73
4.3 FAVORITE INTERIORS OF EMPEROR YONGZHENG QIANLONG 76
4.4 SHENXIU SIYONG IN LATE QING DYNASTY 79
4.4.1 Historical Documentations 79
4.4.2 Analyses on Spatial Structure and Decoration 80
4.5 COMPARISON DISCUSSION 83
CHAPTER 5 NEO-SHENXI-SIYONG IN BEIJING CHATEAU 89
5.1 STRUCTURE SPACE THAT ARCHITECT LEAVE TO ME 89
5.2 COMPOSING NEO-SHENXIU-SIYONG 90
5.3 BASIC SPATIAL DESCRIPTION 94