Literati Style Penjing

Name: Literati Style Penjing
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ISBN: 9781602200180

Chinese Bonsai Masterworks

Zhao Qingquan, Thomas S. Elias, Zhao Qingquan

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Shanghai Press
01 November 2015

Art & Architecture; Bonsai

The art of bonsai is widely known in the West: from the Karate Kid to the American Bonsai Association and even local grocery stores, bonsai has become a common sight in the States. But bonsai, the Japanese art of creating miniature trees, actually originated in China, where it's called penjing. Penjing, meaning ""tray scenery,"" is a traditional Chinese art of creating miniature potted landscapes including trees and other plants. Brought from China to Japan in ancient times before spreading to the West, bonsai/penjing is now popular throughout the world.

In China, the art of creating miniature landscapes has evolved in several different ways. Literati Style Penjing: Chinese Bonsai Masterworks focuses on a special category of penjing associated with traditional Chinese culture, such as the painting of the literati, or elite scholar-bureaucrats, of imperial China.

By: Zhao Qingquan
Photographs by: Zhao Qingquan
Foreword by: Thomas S. Elias
Imprint: Shanghai Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 936g
ISBN: 9781602200180
ISBN 10: 1602200181
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 November 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Zhao Qingquan is a master of the Chinese art of penjing, a Senior Landscape Engineer, an International Bonsai Instructor at Bonsai Clubs International, and an International Consultant for the World Bonsai Friendship Federation. He is currently on the staff of the Penjing Museum of the Slender West Lake Garden. Zhao's passion for penjing began at an early age under the influence of his family, and he later received training under the penjing expert, Professor Xu Xiaobai. In Zhao's four-decade long career, he has focused on the fusion of traditional Chinese culture and contemporary aesthetic sensibilities, and in the 1970s, he pioneered a new form known as the water-and-land penjing. An internationally renowned master, Zhao has attended conferences and given lectures and demonstrations around the world. He has received numerous accolades, and in 2001, his penjing Trident Maples was added to the collection of the US National Arboretum. He is also the author of more than ten monographs.