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Penned with a fountain.ChineseGardenScene says:






Actually the scholar's desk in the scholar's studio, of the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, in Vancouver, BC.from the desk of:     





                         ChineseGardenClipper


Chinesegardenclipper    











With little or no experience of the Dunedin Chinese Garden of Enlightenment;

ChineseGardenClipper  consumed with zest, the content of the book or booklet, published by The Dunedin Chinese Garden Trust:



                      Lan Yuan  - The Garden of Enlightenment


                                  Edited by James Beattie



Firstly, in it's just 91 pages of what the publishers describe as:

" Essays on the intellectual, cultural and architectural background to the Dunedin Chinese Garden."

It's content, largely attributed to Cao Yongkang, Chen Ling, Tan Yufeng, Duncan Cambell and James Beattie;

reveals, so much more, to both the learned garden scholar and novice, alike.


It simply, yet succinctly and even romantically, divulges [ what ChineseGardenClipper considers ] three important objectives;

of both the Dunedin Chinese Garden's Trust and the garden, itself.

  • Honour & respect for an ever increasing - Chineseness, globally.

that is, ' Why other cultures would choose to become interested in and take-on the qualities of Chinese artistic conception & industriousness.'

  • Garden design concepts, put appreciatively and in an engaging manner.

that is, ' With due consideration for the wider audience of it's readership.

  • Offering both reminiscence and alternatives, to recording, of.

                        miniature landscapes

that is, ' Much like the quoted " Chamber for Idle Sitting," or a " Lodge for Treading Upon Harmony;"

the publication engulfs the thought - reminding us all of the dangers of loving material things [ for just that ] which, can become a satanic illusion -

or such illusory things [if not considered & meditated upon ] can become like a protective wall in our imaginations.


Not all of the content is new, then again, nor certainly is the intriguing history of it's subject matter.

A lively account of a  " Vision, through to Reality."


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Please visit the University of Waikato  [ New Zealand ] - Arts and Social Sciences Faculty, through LINKAGE:


               Staff Profile - James Beattie






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