1st Edition
Gardens at the Frontier New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes
Preface Introduction – Gardens at the frontier: new methodological perspectives on garden history and designed landscapes 1. Chinese sources in the Japanese tea garden 2. China on a plate: a willow pattern garden realized 3. Zheng Yuanxun’s ‘A Personal Record of My Garden of Reflections’ 4. On loanwords and calques: where the language of design meets the language of geology 5. Gardens, history and the designer: contributions to historiography 6. Rethinking Australian natural gardens and national identity, 1950-1979 7. W.W. Smith and the transformation of the Ashburton domain ‘from a wilderness into a beauty spot’, 1894 to 1904 8. The cultural history of the garden gnome in New Zealand
Biography
James Beattie is Associate Professor of Science in Society at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His work focuses on the Asia-Pacific region, mostly over the last 200 years. He is especially interested in cross-cultural exchanges occasioned by British imperialism, and the nexus between environments, gardens, health, and art. He is author of nine books and over 60 articles and chapters.
