Lin, Yutong, author

Zomia garden / Yutong Lin

[Montréal] : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2025]

48 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm

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“This book is a result of Yutong Lin’s participation in the CCA Emerging Curator program, which aims to take the institution’s curatorial work into unexplored territories. Lin, an artist and curator, traces the legacy of botanical exploration in an area of the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountain chain known as Zomia, a term coined in 2002 to refer to the largest region of inhabitants not governed by a nation-state. Lin returned to the region—her hometown—to retrace the travels of early twentieth-century plant hunters. The variable Himalayan topographies she explored sustain an extraordinary variety of flora and fauna and, over the years, have inspired mythical imaginaries of bountiful landscapes. Zomia Garden focuses on Joseph F. Rock, a famous plant hunter in the 1920s whose approach to botany, land, and culture was transformed by his relationships with Indigenous Nakhi guides and their language and rituals. Juxtaposing her photographs and itinerary alongside Rock’s, Lin untangles the histories of colonialism, mythmaking, and resistance woven into the hunt for rare plant species and botanical knowledge.”--Page 2 of cover

9781927071984
1927071984

Rock, Joseph F. (Joseph Francis), 1884-1962.
Plant collectors Himalaya Mountains 20th century.
Plant collectors China Hengduan Mountains 20th century.
Naxi (Chinese people)
Plantes Collectionneurs et collections Himālaya 20e siècle.
Moso (Peuple de Chine)
Zomia

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