Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature

Dumbarton Oaks

Edited by Alison Hardie and Duncan M. Campbell

The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature is the first comprehensive collection in English of over two millennia of Chinese writing about gardens and landscape. Its contents range from early poems using plant imagery to represent virtue and vice, through works from many dynasties on both private and imperial gardens, to twentieth-century prose descriptions of the reconstruction of a historic Suzhou Garden.  An introductory essay positions Chinese gardens and garden literature in their cultural context. Care has been taken to translate plant names as accurately as possible given the limitations of the sources, and the anthology includes a glossary of translated names, Chinese names, and binomials.

About the Authors:  Alison Hardie is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leeds.  Duncan M. Campbell was a Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections.  

HARDCOVER

ISBN 9780884024651

Publication Date: 03/03/2020

792 pages

8-1/2 x 11 inches