Suzhou is a city located in eastern China, about 100 km west of Shanghai. It lies on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and has more than 11 million inhabitants. The city is famous for its classic landscape gardens, which have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. These gardens represent the development of the design of Chinese landscape gardens over a period of more than two thousand years. They have become the standard in Chinese garden design. The basis was the idea of the lan [...]