十八世紀，日耳曼地區藉由本地歐洲藝術文化傳承及異地東方中國園林資訊，促進本地園林藝術發展及公共綠地景觀之現代化。十七、十八世紀正逢中國清朝黃金盛世，大量東方報導、中國商品與中國風藝術品進入歐洲市場，影響歐洲宮廷統治者造園理念。日耳曼東部安哈特、德紹侯國王室把園林綠地興建與開明改革政策做連結，藉由中國傳來自然風景園林藝術、造園家天下、園林微觀天下之治國理念，把園林藝術轉化成國家公共綠地建設，帶動本地公共景觀美化與農業經濟現代化。本書以侯國首都德紹郊區王室園林沃里茲園林群為例，探討德紹本地造園藝術家們如何把中國風園林轉化成德國園林一部分，開創新園林藝術。

The East Enlightens the West -Chinese Elements in Eighteenth Century Germany’s Wörlitz Landscape Garden
In the 18th century Germany used European artistic and cultural traditions and at the same time information on Chinese gardens to advance modernisation in the development of local garden art and of public green spaces and landscaping. The 17th and 18th centuries coincided with the golden age of the Chinese Qing Dynasty and a large number of accounts from East Asia, Chinese products and artistic products in the Chinoiserie style entered the markets of Europe. They influenced the ideas of the royal courts of Europe on landscaping. The reigning Prince of Anhalt-Dessau in Eastern Germany connected the construction of gardens and green spaces with the policies of enlightenment and reform. By adopting the ideas originating from China such as natural landscape in garden art, of constructing gardens as a symbol of governing a country and of gardens as a microcosm, he transferred garden art into the sphere of constructing public green spaces. In this way he achieved the goal of improving the aesthetic quality of public spaces and the modernisation of agriculture. By using the garden ensemble of the royal gardens of Wörlitz in the close to the Principality’s capital, Dessau, as an example, this book explores how the artists involved in constructing the gardens in Dessau transformed the Chinese garden style into a constituent part of German gardens. In this way, the Principality initiated a new kind of garden art.