The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature

Australian National University's Duncan Campbell will be speaking at Harvard University.

China is home to traditions of garden culture that are of long, continuous, and immense sophistication. These traditions developed in intense relationship with the verbal and pictorial representation of landscape, and with the special and enclosed space that is the garden in China. In recent months, and with the support of Dumbarton Oaks, Professor Campbell has been editing a long-planned anthology that will seek to make available to English-language readers a representative sampling of Chinese garden literature. This talk will discuss aspects of this anthology.

Duncan Campbell, a New Zealander, presently teaches classical Chinese and Chinese history in the College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University. His research focuses on aspects of the literary and material culture of the late imperial period in China. He first went to China in the mid 1970s. He is a frequent contributor to China Heritage Quarterly, edited by his colleague Geremie Barmé.