Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Chinese Art
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2010

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Choe, Kyungwon, “Marginalized yet Devoted: Buddhist Paintings Commissioned by Nuns of the Early Joseon Palace Cloisters” (Kansas, M. Haufler)

Hsu, Ya-hwei, “Reshaping Chinese Material Culture: Antiquities Revival in the Era of Print, 960–1279” (Yale, D. Sensabaugh)

Hwang, Karen S., “Legitimacy, Genealogy, and the Icon: A Study of Mogao Cave 9, Dunhuang, of the Guiyijun Period (851–1002)” (Harvard, E. Y. Wang, Y. Lippit)

Kelley, Sonja, “Printmaking in Post-War Sichuan: Regional Art Development in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1966” (Princeton, J. Silbergeld)

Kim, Youn-mi, “Eternal Ritual in an Infinite Cosmos: The Chaoyang North Pagoda (1043–44)” (Harvard, E. Y. Wang, Y. Lippit)

Kleutghen, Kristina Renée, “The Qianlong Emperor ‘s Perspective: Illusionistic Painting in Eighteenth-Century China” (Harvard, E. Y. Wang, Y. Lippit)

Orell, Julia, “Picturing the Yangzi River: Particular Landscapes in Song and Yuan China” (Chicago, H. Wu)

Patterson, Jessica, “Temples of Trade: Chinese Art in Bangkok, 1824–1851” (UC Berkeley, J. Williams)

Wallace, Leslie, “Chasing the Beyond: Depictions of Hunting in Eastern Han Dynasty Tomb Reliefs (25–220 CE) from Shaanxi and Shanxi” (Pittsburgh, K. Linduff)

Wang, Peggy, “Responding to the World: Contemporary Chinese Art, Exhibitions, and Criticism in the 1990s” (Chicago, H. Wu)

Wong, Winnie, “After the Copy: Originality, Creativity, and the Skilling of Contemporary Art in China’s Dafen Village” (MIT, C. Jones)

Wu, Jui-Man, “Mortuary Art in the Northern Zhou China (557–581 CE): Visualization of Class, Role, and Cultural Identity” (Pittsburgh, K. Linduff)

Zhang, Fan, “‘Drama Entertains the Spirit’: Art, Ritual, and Theatre in Jin and Yuan Dynasty Pingyang, Shanxi, China” (Brown, R. Bickford)

Zhu, Xiaoqing, “Pang Xunqin (1906–1985): A Chinese Avant-Garde, 1925–1945” (Maryland, College Park, J. Kuo)