Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe

Inroduction: Historicizing the Early Qing Landscape -- Recovering the Kangxi Landscape. Excerpt from "Record of Traveling at the Invitation of the Emperor" by Zhang Yushu -- Reconstructing Kangxi -- Allegories of Empire. Mountain Veins -- "Record of the Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat" by the Kangxi Emperor -- Only Here in Rehe -- Space and Pictoriality.

Painting and the Surveyed Site -- Paper Gardens -- The Metonymic Landscape. Touring the Rear Park -- Conclusion: The Landscape of the Emperor.