The Making of a Medium: Borrowing Views from Painting and Fiction in Early Modern Chinese Garden Design

Date: 

Thu., Feb. 20, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

Category: 

Lectures

Location: 

Rothenberg Hall

Event Notes: 

Free; no reservations required.

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S.E. Kile, assistant professor of Chinese literature at the University of Michigan, examines the first two Chinese works that considered garden design as an art: Ji Cheng's Yuanye (Fashioning Gardens, 1631–34) and Li Yu's Xianqing ouji (Leisure Notes, 1671). By excavating the garden's relationship to other art forms, Kile presents an account of the garden as a medium of artistic expression in early modern China.