This module takes an Interdisciplinary approach to discuss the development and relation of traditional Chinese landscape poetry and painting. It also examines the evolution of significant concepts in the history of art and literature such as “landscape/nature” and “picturesque”. Thematic issues will be discussed in conjunction with specific cases, focusing on the relationship between poetry and painting, and how they influence each other. Topics include Old Trees and Stelae, Misty River-Layered Peaks, Level-Distance Landscapes, Poems on Landscape Paintings etc. This module will explore the intertextuality between images/paintings and texts/poems. The module will also survey the different methodological approaches of contemporary scholars.