Richard Strassberg, emeritus professor of Chinese in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, has been awarded the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies.
Strassberg’s 2016 book, “Thirty Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints,” translates the emperor’s “Imperial Poems on the Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat,” written to commemorate his summer palace. Reflective of his life’s pleasures as well as his ideals as the ruler of the Qing Empire, the Kangxi emperor’s poems and descriptions present an unusually intimate self-portrait of the emperor at the age of 60.
The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize is awarded to a distinguished book published in the English language within the past three years on a subject pertaining to landscape studies. The purpose of this prize is to expose contributors to the intellectual vitality of garden history and landscape studies. The prize seeks to support authors with an ability to write for a general readership as well as for a scholarly audience.
The Foundation for Landscape Studies, a New York not-for-profit corporation, initiates collaborative projects with other organizations, institutions and individuals that promote and advance landscape history and historic landscape design, theory and practice.
