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本文是英国学者通过考察中国古代皇家园林历史流变的史实而撰写的论文,其论述要点在于揭示中国皇家园林与王朝崩溃发生的伦理线索。文中列举了自夏商王朝兴起的建造园林之风,直到隋炀帝倒台后1200多年之后圆明园被烧为止。文章认为,中国人似乎总是用一种另类的价值观念来评判其帝王的生活。
This essay is a thesis written by British scholars through the study of the historical changes of the ancient imperial gardens in China. The main point of this essay is to reveal the ethical clues of the collapse of the imperial gardens and dynasties in China. The article lists the landscape of the garden since the rise of the Xia and Shang dynasties until the fall of Yuanmingyuan after 1200 years. The article argues that Chinese seem to always judge their emperors’ lives with an alternative value.