Yuan Mei’s Menu

Selected and translated by T.C. Lai 賴恬昌 No account of Nanking would be complete without reference to Yuan Mei’s Yuan Mei shidan 袁枚食單. Now much reprinted. The following extract from T.C.… Read

A Record of the Garden of Folly

Translated by Zhu Yayun 朱亞雲 The site of the Garden of Follies, in the southwest of Nanjing, was first developed as a garden in the Song dynasty. It was originally called the Garden of the Phoenix Terrace 鳳台園.… Read