Art History

Wu Xueshan received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Department of Art History, Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is currently Associate Professor at Minzu University of China. His research interests lie in Chinese art history. He has published Collection of Wu Xueshan’s studies of Chinese Art History (Beijing: China Minzu University Press, 2009) and Zhang Zeduan’s Qingming Shanghe Tu (Beijing: Cultural Relics Press, 2009).

Hongfeng Tang received her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Beijing Normal University. She graduated in 2009 and now works at the Chinese National Academy of Arts as an assistant researcher. She was a visiting scholar in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto from 2007-2008. Her research interests focus on 20th-century China, especially late Qing and early Republican Chinese literature, visual culture and intellectual history. She is also interested in contemporary Chinese intellectual debates and Chinese-language cinema. She recently published the book Traveling Modernity: Studies on Travel Narrative in Late Qing Novels (Lvxing de Xiandaixing: Wan Qing Xiaoshuo Lvxing Xushi Yanjiu) ( Beijing Normal University Press, 2011). She is currently working on a project on Late Qing and Early Republican Chinese Visual Culture Studies, sponsored by the Chinese National Philosophy and Social Science Fellowship Office. She is also participating in a project on late Qing and early Republican Chinese literary thought.

Cai Tao is a Ph. D. candidate in the Department of Art History at the China Art Academy. His current research interest focuses on modern Chinese art movements of the 1930s and the Sino-Japanese relationship. As a curator at the Guangdong Museum of Art (GDMoA) since 1997, he has organized a series of exhibitions on modern Chinese artists who studied in Japan. In November 2007, he curated an exhibition on “Floating Avant-Garde: The Chinese Independent Art Society (Zhonghua Duli Meishu Xiehui), and Modern Art in Guangzhou, Shanghai and Tokyo in 1930s”  held at GDMoA. He now works as Associate Research Fellow at the Guangzhou Fine Art Academy.

Sylvia W.S. Lee is currently an art history Ph.D. candidate in the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  During her stay as a visiting fellow, she will work on her doctoral dissertation on garden strategies of elite women in Jiangnan, China in the 17th century.  Her other research interests include the relationship between art made for women or created by women and the consumer culture in the Ming dynasty, vernacular Chinese architecture as well as material culture in the Song dynasty.  Lee earned her M.A.in Art History from the University of Hawaii and her M.B.A. from University of California, Riverside.  Having worked at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she is now a freelance curator actively promoting and curating exhibitions for young and upcoming Hong Kong visual artists.

Soojin Kim is a Lecturer and a Ph. D. Candidate at the Department of Archeology and Art History, Seoul National University, Korea. She has been participating in a project entitled "A Publishing and Digitalizing Korean Biographical Dictionary of Calligraphers and Painters of Korea" organized by the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage. Since receiving her M.A. degree with a thesis on the eighteenth century Korean court painter KIM Hee-song (金喜誠) who gained fame for record paintings to propagate political achievements of Yong-jo (英祖: r.1724-1776), she has published articles on court-patronized art in the second half of the Choson Dynasty, including the period of the Great Han Empire (大韓帝國: 1897-1910). Her academic interests include the following issues: How court paintings visualize the authority and the ruler-ship of royal patrons, how characteristics of court style and iconography were constructed, and how court paintings were used strategically as means of self-fashioning and propaganda. She is currently doing research on the tradition of Japanese academic paintings while working on her subject "Court Painting and Patronage in the period of the Great Han Empire".

Wang Yuan graduated from Tongji University with her Ph. D in Architectural History in 2000 and currently is an associate professor in the Department of History, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. At present, her research interests are in architectural social history. Through a village case study in southern China, Yuan introduces anthropological and historical research methods to her study of vernacular architecture and uses multi-dimensional observation and analysis to strengthen the explanation for the architecture.

LI Qingquan （李清泉）is Professor and Dean, School of Art and Humanities, Guangzahou Academy of Fine Arts. His primary interests is the art history of medieval China, especially the Liao Dynasty. He is the Editor of The Study of Art History.

HUANG Xiaofeng （黄小峰）Lecturer in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Huang graduated from the Department of Art History, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China(M.A.2005, Ph.D.2008). His major field is the history of Chinese paintings and calligraphies, especially from Song to Qing dynasties.