Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China: A Symposium

Registration and Coffee

Introduction and Welcome Remarks
Nicole Cavender, Telleen/Jorgensen Director of the Botanical Gardens

Session I: Growing

• Phillip E. Bloom, June and Simon K.C. Li Curator of the Chinese Garden and Director of the Center for East Asian Garden Studies, The Huntington
  “Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China”
• Shanshan Liu, Associate Curator, School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
  “Literati Medicinal Gardens in Chinese Paintings”
• Nicholas Menzies, Research Fellow, Center for East Asian Garden Studies, The Huntington
  “Hua Yan’s Enjoyment of Chrysanthemums and the Pleasures of Nurturing New Varieties”

Lunch

Session II: Knowing

• Sarah Chen Huang, independent scholar, Hong Kong and Beijing
  “Famine Foods from the Prince’s Garden to the Agronomist’s Guidebook”
• Kathleen Ryor, Tanaka Memorial Professor of International Understanding and Art History at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota
  “Living amid the Flowers: One Hundred Flowers and the Tradition of Botanical Painting in Late Imperial China”
• Huijun Mai, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA

Roundtable Discussion