Tang Hongfeng
唐宏峰

Field of Study

Years of Stay at HYI

Sep 2011 to Jul 2012

University Affiliation (Current)

University Affiliation

Hongfeng Tang is Vice Dean of School of Arts, Peking University, where she specializes in image-media theory, visual culture, and art history in late Qing and early republican China. She received her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Beijing Normal University. She graduated in 2009 and previously worked 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. She is author of 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.

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