Center for East Asian Garden Studies Podcast
1) Border-Crossing Botanicals: The Curious History of Saffron in Japan
Susan Burns, professor of history at the University of Chicago, explores the incorporation of saffron into Japanese pharmacology, a complex process that involved the rise of natural science and a "pro...Show More
2) Sino-Buddhist Medicine: A Missing Link in the Global History of Medicine
C. Pierce Salguero, associate professor of Asian History and Religious Studies at Penn State Abington, provides an introduction to the principles of Sino-Buddhist medicine, the product of centuri...Show More
3) A Whimsical Picture with a Grim Message: The Inshoku yōjō kagami and the Imagination of the Body in Early Modern Japan
Shigehisa Kuriyama, professor of cultural history at Harvard University, discusses the Inshoku yōjō kagami(Rules of Dietary Life), a Japanese woodblock print produced around 1850. The image appea...Show More
4) The Ecology of Eternity in a Song-Dynasty Buddhist Monastery
In his inaugural Huntington lecture, Phillip Bloom, The Huntington’s new director of the Center for East Asian Garden Studies and curator of the Chinese Garden, examines the history of Shizhuanshan, a...Show More
5) Rediscovered Botanical Treasures from the Smithsonian and the Hunt Institute
Lugene Bruno, curator of Carnegie Mellon's Hunt Institute, and Alice Tangerini, curator of botanical art at the Smithsonian Institution, present an illustrated lecture on recently rediscovered artwork...Show More
Rediscovered Botanical Treasures from the Smithsonian and the Hunt Institute
0:00 | Nov 6th, 2017
6) Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps
Richard Pegg, Asian art curator of the private MacLean Collection in Chicago, discusses the similarities and differences in representations of space, both real and imagined, in early modern maps creat...Show More
7) Framing a New Elegance: The World of George T. Marsh and His Japanese House
Originally conceived by art dealer George T. Marsh as an exotic setting in which to sell curiosities, the building that in 1912 became The Huntington’s Japanese House is a beautiful remnant of a trans...Show More
Framing a New Elegance: The World of George T. Marsh and His Japanese House
0:00 | Mar 28th, 2017
8) Huang Ruo and Qian Yi
Composer Huang Ruo, the 2017 Cheng Family Visiting Artist at The Huntington, is joined by the acclaimed kun opera singer Qian Yi for an evening of discussion and performance. Together they explore the...Show More
9) An Evening with Huang Ruo
Composer Huang Ruo, the 2017 Cheng Family Visiting Artist at The Huntington, discusses his work, introduces Chinese opera types, and explains how he uses Chinese opera in the contemporary context. The...Show More
10) The Huang Family of Block Cutters: The Thread that Binds Late Ming Pictorial Woodblock Printmaking
David Barker, professor of printmaking at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, will consider the important contributions made to Chinese pictorial printing by the famous Huang family o...Show More