Refereed articles and book chapters

“Seeing Mount Lu: On an Ontological Shift of the Gaze” in Classical Antiquity in Byzantium and Middle Period China: Revivals and Reinventions in Visual and Intellectual Culture, Curie Virág and Niels Gaul, eds. (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press), forthcoming.

“Beyond Representation: The Quest for an Eco-Aesthetics at the Turn of the 21st Century 表象之外: 21世紀之交的生態美學” in Frontiers of Environment Aesthetics V  環境美學前沿, Chen Wangheng ed. (Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2023), 38-61.

“Hong Lou Meng 紅樓夢 [Le Rêve dans le Pavillon Rouge] (1791)”, Des jardins & Des livres. Michael Jakob, ed. (Geneva: Metis Presses; Fondation martin Bodmer, 2018), 172-73.

“Garden Art” in A Companion to Chinese Art, Martin Powers and Katherine Tsiang, eds. (New York: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2016), 410-430.

“Yuelu Academy: Landscapes and Gardens of Neo-Confucian Pedagogy”, Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes (UK/USA), vol. 25, no. 3 (July September 2005): 156-90; Chinese translation by Cao Manqing in The Realm of Shanshui (Beijing: Sanlian, 2015), 142-79.

“History, Neo-Confucian Identity and Landscape at the Yuelu Academy” in Interlacing of Words and Things: Beyond Nature and Culture, Stephen Bann, ed. (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks; distributed by Harvard University Press, 2012), 65-80.

“Restoring Landscape Design as an Art 復原景觀設計的藝術性” in The New Art of Landscape 景觀啓示錄 (Beijing: China Architecture Publishing, 2012), i-xxi. 

“Gardens as Cultural Memory: The Eight Scenes of the [Yuelu] Academy”, Die Gartenkunst (Germany), vol. 19 (1/2007): 93-108.

“Walk through the Crossing: The Draw at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City” in Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations, Michel Conan, ed. (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks; distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007), 141-62.

“Beyond the Picturesque 走出畫境” in Frontier of Environment Aesthetics I  環境美學前沿, Chen Wangheng ed. (China: Wuhan University Press, 2008), 89-117.

“A New Aesthetics of Landscape 景觀新美學”, preface for Through the Rock Landscape 穿越岩石景觀, Chinese translation of The Crazannes Quarries by Bernard Lassus [© Michel Conan 2004] (Changsha, China: Hunan Science and Technology Press, 2006), 1-6.

Academic columns and special journal issues

Xin Wu, the bi-monthly column of “Contemporary Landscape Criticism 當代景觀評論”, 12 issues in Chinese and English, Landscape Architecture Frontiers 景觀設計學, 2009 – 2011.

Xin Wu, ed. the bi-monthly column of “Flora of Landscape Thought 山水百傢言”, 10 issues in Chinese and English, Landscape Architecture 風景園林, 2009 – 2011.

Xin Wu, ed. The Landscape Approach (a special edition on Bernard Lassus), Landscape Architecture 風景園林, vol. 85, no. 2 (March 2010).

Xin Wu, ed. Beyond Boundaries (a special edition on Maya Lin), Landscape Architecture 風景園林, vol. 84, no. 1 (January 2010).

Invited papers and catalogue entries 

“Gardens and Landscapes as Neo-Confucian Metaphors”, Center 35 (Washington DC: National Gallery of Art CASVA, 2015), 176-79.

“Contemporary Landscape Design in China 中國當代景觀設計” (interview of me), Landscape Architecture Frontiers 景觀設計學, vol. 1, no. 1 (February 2013): 68-72.

“Petaluma Wetland Park: re-inventing art, reforming engineering” in exh. cat. A Field Guide to Patricia Johanson’s Works: Built, Proposed, Collected & Published (Baltimore, MD: Contemporary Museum, 2012), 40-41.