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Europeans may be said to have first encountered the Chinese garden in Marco Polo's narrative of his travels through the Mongol Empire and his years at the court of Kublai Khan. His account of a man-made lake abundant with fish, a verdant green hill lush with trees, raised walkways, and a plethora of beasts and birds took root in the European imagination as the description of a kind of Eden. Beginning in the sixteenth century, permanent interaction between Europe and China took form, and Jesuit missionaries and travelers recorded in letters and memoirs their admiration of Chinese gardens for their seeming naturalness. In the eighteenth century, European taste for chinoiserie reached its height, and informed observers of the Far East discovered that sophisticated and codified design principles lay behind the apparent simplicity of the Chinese garden. The widespread appreciation of the eighteenth century gave way to rejection in the nineteenth, a result of tensions over practical concerns such as trade imbalances and symbolized by the destruction of the imperial park of Yuanming yuan by a joint Anglo-French military expedition. In Ideas of Chinese Gardens , Bianca Maria Rinaldi has gathered an unparalleled collection of westerners' accounts, many freshly translated and all expertly annotated, as well as images that would have accompanied the texts as they circulated in Europe. Representing a great diversity of materials and literary genres, Rinaldi's book includes more than thirty-five sources that span centuries, countries, languages, occupational biases, and political aims. By providing unmediated firsthand accounts of the testimony of these travelers and expatriates, Rinaldi illustrates how the Chinese garden was progressively lifted out of the realm of fantasy into something that could be compared with, and have an impact on, European traditions.

Content

Introduction

Technical specifications

Scooter construction

Operation of the scooter

• Controls
• Control devices
• Ignition switch
• Inspection before the trip
• Fueling the scooter
• Starting the engine
• Tips for managing the scooter
• Maintenance
• Running in
• Routine work

Engine

• General information
• The design and operation of a four-stroke engine
• Carter
• Crank mechanism
• Valve head
• Replacing the piston
• Adjusting the valve clearance
• Check sizes

Power system

• General information
• Carburettor
• Fuel tank
• Vacuum tap
• Diagnosis of the quality of the mixture by the color of the spark plug insulator

Lubrication system

• General information
• Checking engine oil level
• Oil pump

Transmission

• Device and principle of operation
• Disassembling of a variator
• Replacing the weights of the variator
• The trigger mechanism
• Reducer

Chassis

• Basic information
• Frame
• Front suspension
• Rear suspension
• Front and rear suspension dimensions
• Suspension adjustment
• Disks and tires

Brake system

• General information
• Front brake
• Rear brake mechanism
• Replacement of front brake pads

Electrical equipment

• General information
• Schematic diagrams of electrical equipment
• Generator
• Battery

Caring for your scooter

• Caring for appearance
• Repair of plastic panels

Application

• Diagnosis of possible malfunctions and their elimination
• Tips for buying a new scooter
• Tips for buying a used scooter
• Scooter preparation for winter
• Scooter tuning

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