Philippe Forêt

Au début du XXe siècle, Sven Hedin, géographe de retour d'une campagne d'exploration clandestine au Tibet et la société royale de géographie s'affrontent sur l'existence présumée du Transhimalaya qui serait le plus haut sommet du monde. Véritable découverte ou création d'une légende? Une enquête géographique est menée dans cet ouvrage.

les résultats scientifiques inattendus d'un voyage au Tibet, 1906-1908, et de la querelle du Transhimalaya

La véritable histoire d'une montagne plus grande que l'Himalaya

The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. The site, which is on UNESCO's World Heritage List, combines the largest classical gardens in China with a unique series of grand monasteries in the Sino-Tibetan style. Mapping Chengde, the first scholarly publication in English on the Manchu summer capital, reveals how this unlikely architectural and landscape enterprise came to help forge a dynasty's multicultural identity and concretize its claims of political legitimacy. Using both visual and textual materials, the author explores the hidden dimensions of landscape, showing how geographical imagination shaped the aesthetics of Qing court culture while proposing a new interpretation of the mental universe that conceived one of the world's most remarkable examples of imperial architecture.

The Qing Landscape Enterprise

Mapping Chengde

Andreas Kaplony

Drawing on evidence from the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, this book examines specific cases of the mobility of maps and images through the centuries.

Philippe Forêt

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