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Chinese Gardens as a Nativity Scene: Matteo Ripa's Description of the Kangxi Emperor's Changchun Garden in Beijing
2021
Annales de Lettres et Sciences Humaines
This article examines the description of the Changchun Garden in eighteenth-century Beijing, featured in Matteo Ripa's Storia della Fondazione della Congregazione e del Collegio de' Cinesi. An Italian missionary at the court of the Kangxi Emperor, Ripa had a chance to see and describe both the imperial parks and the intricacies of Chinese court etiquette. His detailed account, a precious source of information on the Changchun park, was accompanied by commentaries aimed at explaining the
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