Analysis of the Traditional Chinese Garden

中国古典园林分析

Translation from Chinese into English

PENG Yigang

KOU Huaiyun (co-translator)

Ron HENDERSON (co-translator)

Analysis of the Traditional Chinese Garden is a seminal book for the spatial principles and techniques that shape traditional Chinese gardens. It is a richly illustrated resource for historians, theorists, garden designers, landscape architects, architects and anyone interested in the design of these world renowned gardens with 106 pages of hand-drawn sketches by the author that vividly portray the intricacies and subtleties of traditional Chinese gardens.

This translation, by Kou Hauiyun and Ron Henderson, of Peng Yigang’s text into English retains the clear analytical text and rich illustrations that distinguish the book’s influential scholarship.

The book is widely known in China as a primary text for analysis of the gardens and was recognized with the inaugural National Excellent Architectural Book Award in 1990 and, since its debut in China in 1986, has garnered immense popularity and acclaim with 50 reprints and a total print run of 150,000 copies.

SpringerNATURE, publisher

China Architecture Publishing & Media Co., Ltd., copyright holder

Hardcover ISBN 978-981-97-7130-1, 21 June 2025

eBook ISBN 978-981-97-7131-8, 21 June 2025