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RegistrationBooking required.Tickets costs and details of how to book are available&#160;at this link.PresentationThis two-day conference held in the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield will explore new research in the history of Chinese gardens and landscapes.Organised by Dr Jan Woudstra in conjunction with the Gardens Trust, the event will look at new discoveries in the field from both professionals and post-graduate students from around the world.  Dr Alison Hardie will introduce the conference and outline the importance that Maggie Keswick&#8217;s 1978 book The Chinese Garden, History Art and Architecture has played in the subject. It is a unique opportunity to hear speakers from UK and International institutions to present their new research in the field. Talks will cover subjects as wide-ranging as Jesuit water landscapes, gardens as museums, Feng Shui symbolism and botanical watercolours.  The conference notably received the support of Confucius Institute (Sheffield).ProgramThursday 26 October 201710.00-10.25&#160;RegistrationChair: Dr Jan Woudstra, University of Sheffield10.25&#160;Welcome10.30&#160;Dr Alison Hardie, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Leeds, UK, Chinese Garden and Landscape Studies in the 21st Century11.00&#160;Dr Lei Gao, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, As, Norway, The concept of Paradise in Chinese Buddhism and its interpretation in designed landscape in Qianglong era (1736-1795)11.30&#160;Tea/Coffee12.00&#160;Xiaoyan Hu, PhD candidate, Liverpool University, UK, The dialectic aesthetics of Xu (emptiness) and Shi (fullness) in Chinese landscape art (landscape painting, landscape poetry, gardening) from the Six Dynasties12.30&#160;Questions and discussion13.00 LunchChair: Josepha Richard, PhD Candidate, University of Sheffield14.00&#160;Dr Antonio Jos&#233; Mezcua L&#243;pez, Granada University, Spain, Hangzhou&#8217;s West Lake Research Proposal: The Song Dynasty (960-1279)14.30&#160;Professor Carol Brash, St John&#8217;s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA.&#160;Canonizing the Garden of Solitary Delight (Dule Yuan)15.00&#160;Tea/Coffee15.30 Dr Kate Bailey and Charlotte Brooks, Royal Horticultural Society, London, UK, The RHS Reeves collection of Chinese botanical watercolours: a story of people and plants in China and Britain in the early nineteenth century16.00&#160;Dr Lianming Wang, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg. Fountains and Jesuit Water Landscapes in eighteenth-century Beijing16.30&#160;Questions and discussion17.00 CloseEvening:&#160;Conference Chinese dinnerFriday 27 October 2017Chair: Dr Alison Hardie Honorary Research Fellow, University of Leeds09.55&#160;Welcome10.00&#160;Dr Stephen Whiteman, University of Sydney, Australia. Post-histories and past formations in a Qing garden10.30&#160;Josepha Richard, PhD candidate, University of Sheffield, UK, East-West encounters in the Cantonese garden11.00&#160;Coffee11.30&#160;Youcao Ren, PhD candidate, University of Sheffield, UK, FengShui Landscapes in the late Qing Royal Garden Design12.00&#160;Questions and discussion12.30 LunchChair: Dr Sally Jeffery, The Gardens Trust13.30&#160;Zhang Yichi, PhD candidate, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. From Decoration to Necessity: the functions of Public Parks in the British Concessions of China, 1842-193714.00&#160;Yuanyuan Liu, PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK, The Modernisation of the Traditional Space during the Chinese Park Movement: Case Study of Xuanwu Lake in Najing, 1928-194914.30&#160;Tea/Coffee15.00&#160;Professor William Callahan, London School of Economics, London, UK. Cultivating Power: Chinese gardens as sites of diplomacy, war and peace15.30&#160;Questions and discussion16.00&#160;Close