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The seventeenth-century Chinese treatise on garden design, Yuan ye, is wellknown as the first Chinese text that articulated the notion of ‘borrowing views‘ (jie jing). In the first chapter of the treatise, ‘borrowing’ is one of the four key terrns explaining the importance of the master designer. The discussion of this key term indicates its relevance to the question of ‘the immediate garden’ and its relationship to a ‘larger landscape’:
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Stanislaus Fung (1999) studied this question.
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