Dr Alison Hardie

Core Researcher

2001 PhD, Sussex; 1997 MA (Chinese Studies), Oxford; 1979 MA (Chinese), Edinburgh; 1976 BA (Literae Humaniores), Oxford.

Selected publications

The Craft of Gardens , Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1988 (annotated translation, with introduction, of Ji Cheng's Yuanye, c. 1630).

'Contemporary Chinese Painting', Apollo , May 1990.

'Ji Cheng's Yuan Ye (The Craft of Gardens) in its social setting', in The Authentic Garden: a Symposium on Gardens , ed. Leslie Tjon Sie Fat and Erik de Jong, The Clusius Foundation, Leiden, 1991.

Introduction, revision of text, and appendix to new edition of Maggie Keswick, The Chinese Garden : History, Art and Architecture (London, 1978), Frances Lincoln Ltd., London, 2003.

'Pictorial Representations of Gardens in 16th-17th Century China ', Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society , vol. 67, 2003/4.

'The Life of a Seventeenth-Century Chinese Garden Designer: The Biography of Zhang Nanyuan, by Wu Weiye (1609-71)', Garden History, 32/1, Spring 2004.

'The Awareness Garden of Wang Shiheng in Yizhen', Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes , vol.24, no.4, October-December 2004.

'Yuan Huang's Record of the Hall Surrounded by Jade of Master Sitting-in-Reclusion' (translation and introduction), Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes , vol.25, no.1, January-March 2005.

'Conflicting discourse and the discourse of conflict: eremitism and the pastoral in the poetry of Ruan Dacheng (c.1587-1646)', in Daria Berg ed., Reading China : Fiction, History and the Dynamics of Discourse - Essays in Honour of Professor Glen Dudbridge , E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2006.

'Think Globally, Build Locally: Syncretism and Symbolism in the Garden of Sitting in Reclusion', Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes , vol.26, no.4, Oct-Dec 2006.

'"Massive structure" or "spacious naturalness"? Aesthetic choices in gardens of the Wang families in Taicang', Ming Studies (forthcoming, 2007).

'Washing the Wutong Tree: Garden Culture as an Expression of Women's Gentility in the Late Ming', in Daria Berg & Chloe Starr eds., China and the Quest for Gentility: Negotiations beyond Gender and Class , Routledge (forthcoming, 2007).