Chinese Garden Programs, Lectures, and Events

The Huntington is creating an innovative, long-range educational program that will embrace a wide variety of individuals including scholars, visitors, teachers, and school children. The Chinese Garden programs will feature an assortment of activities from lectures and conferences, to public festivals for families, and educational workshops for children and adults. The intent of these programs is to actively promote and further an understanding of Chinese culture – landscape, literature, art, and history – as it relates to gardens.

Lecture:  The Emperor Views His Garden: Kangxi and the Mountain Hamlet for Escaping the Summer Heat at Chengde

Oct. 7, 2008, Tues., 7:30 p.m.

Free, Friends' Hall

Speaker:  Professor Richard Strassberg, UCLA

Lecture:  Money Talks: Commerce, Classics, and Taste in Late Imperial China, 1600 - 1800

Jan. 27, 2008, Tues., 7:30 p.m.

Free, Friends' Hall

Speaker: Professor Benjamin Elman, Princeton University

Lecture:  Garden Names as Cultural History:
Embedded Meanings in Liu Fang Yuan Place Names

March 31, 2009, Tues., 7:30 p.m.

Free, Friends' Hall

Professor Ronald Egan, UC Santa Barbara

Lecture: Where Souls Couch On: Flora in Traditional Gardens around Shanghai

May 5, 2009, Tues., 7:30 p.m.

Free, Friends' Hall

Professor Yang Ye, UC Riverside