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Research Projects

• Greater Canton and Qing Global Knowledge: Migrant Artisans, Expatriate Contact Zones, and the Emergence of Haixi

• Collaborative Research Project on the Cold War, the State, and Art

• Book Manuscript in Progress: Durugan: Visual Governance at the High Qing Court

Publications

• Books

• • A Boundary-Crossing History of Chinese Art

• • Seeing: 48 Object Readers and Their World

• Articles & Book Chapters

• • Sur le Fleuve, le Jour de la Fête de Qingming

• • Mediating Tradition: Japanese Copperplate Printing and Art Reproduction in 1880s Shanghai

• • From Commercialism to Cultural Politics: Revitalizations of Xiqing Antiquities from the Late Qing to the Republican Era

• • Duanfang: Manchu Stateman, Reformer and Art Connoisseur

• • Traditional Leisure in a Globalized Age: Selling and Consuming Japanese Illustrated Books in 1880s Shanghai

• • Domesticating the Global and Materializing the Unknown: A Study on Album of Beasts at the Qianlong Court

• • Costuming the Empire: A Study on the Production of Tributary Paintings at the Qianlong Court in 18th Century China

• • Hokusai à Shanghai: Ren Bonian et la Culture Populaire Japanaise (Hokusai in Shanghai: Ren Bonian and Japanese Popular Culture)

• • Historicity, Visuality and Patterns of Literati Transcendence: Picturing the Red Cliff

• • Tea and the Art Market in Sino-Japanese Exchanges of the Late Nineteenth Century: The Case of Sencha and Seiwan Meien Zushi

• • Ren Yi

Conferences & Workshops Organized

• Conferences Organized

• • Reordering the Natural World: Animals, Plants, and the Natural Environment

• • Illustrated Regulations for Ceremonial Paraphernalia of the Imperial Qing Dynasty

• • Falsehood, Forgery, and Knowledge Production in Early Modern World: A Comparative Perspective from Studies on Ming-Qing China to Global History

• • Seeing and Touching Gender from Late Imperial to Modern China

• Workshops Organized

• • Critical Terms for Critical Ideas in Manchu: Lexical Formation and Cultural Remaking in the Qing Empire

• • Introduction to the Paintings of Chosŏn Korea in One Day

• • Material Culture and Community Formation: Experience of Objects through Sensory Perception

• • Forgeries and Cultural Mediations: Suzhou Commercial Paintings

• • Imperial Form, Technology, and Materiality in the Qing Court

• • Imperial Form: Style, Technology, and Materiality in the Qing Court Workshop

• • Exotica and Emperorship at the Qing Court

Academic Engagement & Community Building

• Invited Talks

• • “Miniature on the Move: Yao Wenhan’s Qingming Shanghe Tu,” presented in conjunction with the exhibition Une Passion Chinoise

• • The Visual Turn in 18th-Century China: From Memory Palace to the Power of Images

• • “Making “Likeness” as a New Paradigm: A Representational Turn in Visual Culture at the Qianlong Court”

• • Keynote Speech “Making “Likeness” as a New Paradigm

• • Mediating Tradition: Japanese Copperplate Printing and Art Reproduction in 1880s Shanghai

• • The Relationship between the Production of the Illustrated Regulations for Ceremonial Paraphernalia of the Imperial Qing Dynasty in the Qing Court and the So-called Export Paintings

• • Manchu Roots: Imperial Politics, Image Discourse, and European Botanical Studies at the Qianlong Court

• • Visual Governance from a Global Perspective: A Case Study on the High Qing Court

• • Frequently Invited Speaker, National Palace Museum, Taiwan

• • International Conference “Moving People and Forming Asia: Art, State, and Cold War Geopolitics, 1950s–1980s”

Exhibition

• Selected Exhibitions

• • Policy, Memory, and Material Experience: Labay Eyong and the Era of American Aid

• • Fineries of Forgery: Suzhou Fakes and Their Influence in the 16th to 18th Century

• • Late Qing Prints from the Kunstkamera Collection in St. Petersburg

• • Tracing the Che School in Chinese Painting

• Oral History Project on Postwar Taiwanese Art

Media & Public Scholarship