Sara Cedar Miller, the official historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy, draws on extensive research to tell the captivating story of the park's creation, placing it in the context of 19th-century American art and social history and illuminating the roles of its designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and their associate Jacob Wrey Mould. Fascinating period views and original plans and drawings, many previously unpublished, are complemented by Miller's breathtaking new photographs, which reveal the restored park in all its glory

The cover design is from a Suzhou embroidery screen of the Qing Dynasty used specially for birthday celebrations

This work sets out to investigate the Chinese conception of space. It attempts, to discover the underling mechanism of reasoning, the way in which mental constructions of space lead to formal structures, which carries meanings

The cloth art of China refers to cloth handicrafts made by Chinese peoplesing traditional cloth and threads as raw materials

Beginning from the Neolithic Banpo Culture, China"s ceramic industry has a history of over 6, 000 years

Festivals are markers of time, dividing the year into many periods. These periods constitute our lives and festivals are highlights in the course of our living. At festivals people celebrate good harvests

This book is recomended to readers who wish to explore the wonder of Chinese bronzes

The book is a comparison of Chinese and Western architectural styles and different types of architecture

The character ep "yin" (seal) is found as early as on the inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty (1600-1100 BC)

Chinese film may be perceived as a window that reveals the Chinese people"s state of existence, and mirror that reflects their dreams and yearnings