About the event
What contributed to the early modern Chinese experience of culturally mediated landscapes? How can interactive, immersive environments help scholars reconstruct and present that experience for academic and public audiences? This talk offers an overview of the Virtual Mountain Estate, which explores these questions through views of a Qing imperial garden in the early eighteenth century.
View the early 18th century copper plate printed images of the imperial garden used within Stephen Whiteman’s research on Digital Bodleian.
This event is hosted by the Centre for Digital Scholarship and the Asian and Middle Eastern Collections at the Bodleian Libraries. The event has been generously supported by the HD Chung Fund.
Speaker
Stephen Whiteman (Reader in the Art and Architecture of China at The Courtauld), is author and editor of eight volumes, including Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World (Penn, 2023) and the award-winning Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe (Washington, 2020). With support from the Getty Foundation, the British Academy and others, he has helped lead collaborative research initiatives around the world, seeking to expand the study of Asian art through connection and dialogue.
Booking information
This event is available to attend in person at the Weston Library.
The event is free and open to all but booking is required.
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Location
This talk takes place in person in the Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre at the Weston Library.
Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
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Wheelchair access
The Weston Library is wheelchair accessible.
