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Environmental History of the Lan Su Chinese Garden

Environmental History of the Lan Su Chinese Garden. Professor Andrew Bernstein & Researcher Zach Holz Funded through the Andrew Mellon Foundation. The Lan Su Classical Chinese Garden. Chinese Gardens in China.

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Environmental History of the Lan Su Chinese Garden

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  1. Environmental History of the Lan Su Chinese Garden Professor Andrew Bernstein & Researcher Zach Holz Funded through the Andrew Mellon Foundation

  2. The Lan Su Classical Chinese Garden

  3. Chinese Gardens in China • We are focusing primarily Suzhou style gardens, whose style was codified during the late Ming • Chinese gardens were both aesthetic and consumptive spaces, engaged in politics of taste • No such thing as an essential Chinese garden

  4. Questions & Rationale • 1. In studying environmental history, what methodologies and/or themes are especially effective for interpreting the specifics of given locales and phenomena in a global framework?  •  2. Specifically, how can we trace global connections to (and through) Portland’s Lan Su Chinese Garden in an ANT-like fashion, discovering how various elements (some apparently “local,” others apparently less so, some historical, some contemporary) work to constitute the site?

  5. Methods

  6. Methods • Study and discussion of macro-scale theory regarding global environmental history • world-systems analysis • theories on modernity • global archaeology

  7. Methods • Reading monographs and scholarly articles on historical phenomena relevant to the Lan Su garden; trying to trace parallel/other histories

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