The Virtual Mountain Estate: Remediating experience in an 18th century Chinese landscape

Digital Scholarship Lunchtime Lecture 

5 February 13:00 to 14:00
In-person event: Weston Library Lecture Theatre

This event is free but booking is required. Please follow the registration link below to sign up. 

Join us on Wednesday 5 February for a Digital Scholarship Lunchtime Lecture with Stephen Whiteman, Reader in the Art and Architecture of China at the Courtauld, co-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.

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.

 

Still from the Virtual Mountain Estate

The Virtual Mountain Estate project

The Virtual Mountain Estate

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker Biography

Stephen Whiteman, Reader in the Art and Architecture of China, The Courtauld, is a specialist in the visual and spatial cultures of early modern and modern China. His work explores the intersections of landscape with ethnic, social, and national identities; transcultural interchange and connected histories of art; and the use of digital methods in art history, among other themes.

He 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. 

Event Details and Registration

This event is free but registration is required. Registration closes at 17.00 on Friday 31 January 2025.

Location: Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG 

For further information, please email the Centre for Digital Scholarship: cds@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

Register for 'The Virtual Mountain Estate' talk via the Bodleian website

Centre for Digital Scholarship

The Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries is a space and place for engaging, leading and shaping discussions around digital scholarship practice and research within and beyond the University of Oxford.