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A Dialogue between the East and the West? Uses and Abuses of „Sharawadgi“

Publication at Central Library of Charles University |
2006

Abstract

The article tracess the mediating function of a corrupt Chinese word sharawadgi used in England from the 1690s throughout the eighteenth century to describe careless beauty and elegance and to denote a different aesthetic order in garden design, opposed to the geometrical layout.