Maggie Keswick (1941–1995)
Autore di The Chinese garden : History, art and architecture
Sull'Autore
Maggie Keswick first went to China when she was four years old. Her family had lived and worked in China since the early nineteenth century, and it is perhaps because of this close link that she was able to develop so intimate an understanding of Chinese art, philosophy and garden-making. She was mostra altro educated in Shanghai and Hong Kong and, in Britain, at Oxford University and the Architectural Association, London. She was married to the architectural critic and historian Charles Jencks, with whom she made the famous conceptual garden at Portrack, near Dumfries, Scotland Alison Hardie is a lecturer in Chinese studies at Newcastle University. She has done extensive research into Chinese gardens, specializing in Chinese garden design in the later Ming dynasty, and is translator of the classic Chinese garden text The Craft of Gardens (Yuan Ye) by Ji Cheng. She first met Maggie Keswick in China twenty years ago, and it was following Maggie's lead that she embarked on her study of Chinese gardens mostra meno
Opere di Maggie Keswick
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Keswick, Maggie
- Nome legale
- Keswick, Margaret
- Altri nomi
- Jencks, Maggie Keswick
- Data di nascita
- 1941-10-10
- Data di morte
- 1995-07-08
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Holywood, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- breast cancer
- Luogo di residenza
- Dumfries, Scotland, UK
London, England, UK
Santa Monica, California, USA
Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- Architectural Association School of Architecture
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford - Attività lavorative
- garden designer
- Relazioni
- Jencks, Charles (spouse)
- Organizzazioni
- Maggie's Centres
Keswick Foundation - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Hall of Heroes, National Wallace Monument
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- 4
- Utenti
- 183
- Popolarità
- #118,259
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 13
- Lingue
- 1
The following are notes from the reading.
Presents of special old teas, 27.
A. G. Dallas, 28-9.
James Whittall (Shanghai), 33.
Opium (picture), 60-1, 64-5.
tincture of opium, 67;
Malwa molds, 68.
Palmerston, 72.
Silk, 80-1.
Takee's history of his home county, 95. "Takee" is the banker Yang Fang, who provided funding for the army of mercenaries led in the book by Fletcher Thorson Wood.
Takee would have a large household, with so many people coming and going that Fletcher never could keep them all straight, and Ch'ang-mei [Yang Fang's young daughter] was lost among them, 99.
Compradores and "limited liability" (this is an important passage that reflects on the "ethics" of compradors). Jardine's characters in 1860 Shanghai: Whittall, Keswick, compradore William Affo.
Other detail was taken from the chapter Jardines in Japan. Yokohama, Nagasaki, and Hakodate were opened for trade on July 1, 1859. Yokohama was an isolated, seaward-facing stretch of shorebacked by a swamp with rivers on either side. A canal was dug to join the two rivers, so ensuring that the only official exits from the port were via two bridges, each guarded and barricaded at sunset. To Rutherford Alcock [British consul] it looked like a prison.
Whitall was in charge of the Shanghai branch in 1859-60. "Early in 1860" [William] Keswick bought Lot No. 1 [on the Shanghai Bund] for the company [so by May it probably was already a done deal and can be mentioned in Yankee Mandarin]. It was in an excellent position on the waterfront with room for expansion to Lot Nos. 22 and 23 behind for godowns.
James Lande… (altro)