“Tea and the Art Market in Sino-Japanese Exchanges of the Late Nineteenth Century: The Case of Sencha and Seiwan Meien Zushi,” in Joshua A. Fogel, ed., The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012).

This volume edited by Joshua A. Fogel, is a pioneering volume that examines Japan’s pivotal role in shaping the trajectories of modern Chinese art. It challenges nationalistic narratives by highlighting the intense cultural and artistic exchanges across the Sino-Japanese sphere in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. My essay investigates how Japanese tea culture and its pictorial traditions influenced Shanghai’s art market. It reveals tea-related visual culture as a crucial site of transcultural negotiation and modernity.