A candidate for the Ph.D. in English, Elizabeth Chang takes up in her dissertation a wide range of verbal and visual source material that allows her to reassess basic questions about how Chinese materials look, and were looked at, in nineteenth-century Britain. In From Garden to Den: The Chinese Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Visual Culture Chang argues that through a vocabulary that linked design features– of scale, proportion, and perspective–to Chinese ontology, the British were able to formulate a refined oppositional model of national visual self-definition. As a Townsend Fellow, Chang will be supported by a University of California Dissertation Fellowship.