Situated in the southeastern corner of China, the Province of Jiangsu is the cradle of the splendid culture of Jiangnan. Andrew Field will guide us through the Humble Administrator’s Garden, which best embody the poetic essence and aesthetic ideals of this region.

In this episode, we are guided to the West Garden, which features compact spaces with intricate designs.

In Yangzhou, Andrew Field explores the famous Geyuan Garden, where rocks and plants are the principal design elements.

Xuzhou Underground City Site Museum reinterprets history through contemporary design, perpetuating the ancient city’s vitality of thousands of years.

Regarded as a magical vision of the East, Nanjing’s Porcelain Pagoda is rebuilt on its ancient foundations and born again in the digital age.

At Yixing Creative and Cultural Ceramic Avenue, the keeper of its kiln traditions is now telling new tales of clay and flame.

Inside Suzhou University, Kenneth Wang School of Law matches the Western Clock Tower in scale and materials and weaves in classic Chinese design thinking.

Andrew Field visits the Suzhou Museum of Imperial Kiln Brick to find out more about how the bricks that paved the great halls of the Forbidden City were made and how that cultural memory is preserved today.

Yangzhou-style rock work creates a poetic landscape, fusing together nature and artifice to give one the feel of climbing through real mountains.

Andrew visits a representative inheritor of Xiangshan Bang Woodwork, feeling the most exquisite forms and styles of Chinese architectural heritage.