Portland, Oregon's Lan Su Chinese Garden is celebrating the 35-year sister city partnership with Suzhou -- signing memorandums to protect traditional Chinese culture in the Rose City.

Lan Su is a walled Ming Dynasty-style classical Chinese garden that occupies one city block. The garden is owned by the city of Portland as part of its Parks & Recreation portfolio. A nonprofit ...

The Chinese Garden’s curator, June Li, leads a visitor around the 1.5-acre lake that forms the centerpiece of the Suzhou-style garden, which is modeled after the scholars gardens that thrived ...

California's first Chinese garden, Liu Fang Yuan - the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, is set to open Feb. 23 at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino (Los ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Lan Su Chinese Garden's teahouse has a new name and new food-and-drink menu. Revealed in a ceremony Wednesday, the new name, Yun Shui (雲 水), means "Clouds and Water" in ...

If you've never been to Portland's Chinese garden, take this opportunity to go. In a partnership with our sister city Suzhou, the garden was designed by Kuang Zhen Yan, director of the Suzhou ...

THOSE who know little about the Ming era (1368-1644) or about Chinese gardens in general may wonder at the relevance of a 16th century garden in modern Southern California.

View full size Randy L. Rasmussen/The OregonianAdmission to Portland’s Lan Su Chinese Garden is free through Jan. 11 as part of the garden’s 10th anniversary celebration.

The Chinese Garden is expanding from 3.5 acres to 12 acres. Artists from China are leaving their imprint. Here’s what else it will have.