Lillian Tseng Associate Professor of East Asian Art & Archaeology Institute for the Study of the Ancient World New York University Absence and Presence: The Great Wall in Chinese Art Built and rebuilt many times since the third century BCE, the Great Wall has remained culturally significant and monumental in China. However, it did not [...]
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VMPEA: April 20, Dai Xiaoyun
Dai Xiaoyun Associate Research Fellow, Beijing Luxun Museum Visiting Scholar of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Shuilu Paintings (水陆画) and the Ritual Text of “Tiandi mingyang shuilu yiwen (天地冥阳水陆仪文)” The talk will be given in Chinese. Friday, April 20, 4-6 p.m. CWAC 153
March 9, Catherine Stuer
The Rhetoric of the Trace: Photography, Place, and History in Republican Nanjing Catherine Stuer PhD candidate, University of Chicago Friday, March 9, 4-6 pm This paper discusses an expansive photographic project undertaken by Zhu Xie (1907-1968) to record and publish Nanjing’s material remains at a time when the city was redesigned as the [...]
December 2. Seunghye Lee
Whose Bodies Were They?: Enshrining Relics of the Buddhas and Saints in Eleventh Century China Seunghye Lee Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago Friday, December 2, 4-6 p.m. CWAC 156 In Chinese Buddhist sources, the term “relics” is often modified by other terms, implying the particular nature of the body present in the relics. This paper [...]
November 18, Katherine Tsiang
Dr. Katherine Tsiang Associate Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago Visualizing the Divine — Chinese Religious Imagery of the Medieval Period Abstract: Religious art was the major form of art in the medieval period in China as in Europe. The emergence of Buddhist and religious Daoist imagery and [...]
November 11, Eileen Lam
Eileen Lam Research Fellow of the Art Institute of Chicago A Case Study on Jade Imitation: Jade Vessels from the Western Han Tomb at Shizishan in Xuzhou Abstract: Imitation was a prevalent and constant practice in the material world, once distinctions of value occur among various materials. There are myriad examples of imitation throughout [...]
VMPEA: October 21, Sun-ah Choi
Sun-ah Choi Ph. D. Candidate, University of Chicago Friday, October 21, 4-6 p.m. CWAC 156 Materialized Vision: The True Visage of Bodhisattva Manjusri of Mt. Wutai and Its Tenth-Century Translation in Dunhuang Abstract: This presentation is derived from the third chapter of my Ph. D. dissertation, entitled “Quest for the True Visage: Sacred Images in [...]
October 14, Jimmy Yu
Jimmy Yu Assistant Professor, The Florida State University Friday, October 14, 4-6 pm CWAC 156 Visualizing Self-Inflicted Violence in late Imperial Chinese Religions Abstract: This paper examines two distinct practices of blood writing and female chastity mutilation and suicide in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries China. Thousands of men and women during this time exercised the [...]
September 30, Quincy Ngan
Quincy Ngan Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago Friday, September 30, 4-6 pm CWAC 156 Painting the Land in Azurite Blue and Malachite Green: From Mind’s Craft to Vulgarity Abstract: In this presentation, I will argue that the blatant luxuriousness of the above two pigments structures the usage and perception of both heavily-pigmented and ink-monochrome landscape paintings, [...]
May 27, Irene Backus
Irene Backus Ph.D. Candidate, Art History Department University of Chicago Friday, May 27, 4- 6 pm CWAC 156 Asia Materialized: Perceptions of China in Renaissance Florence Abstract: Asia Materialized: Perceptions of China in Renaissance Florence,” examines how three of the most highly valued Chinese imports—porcelain, refined silk textiles, and spices—shaped Italian Renaissance artistic and technological [...]