Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
“Third Annual Conference on Gender Studies in China.” Will present paper “Painting Manuals and Gendered Modernity in Republican-era Shanghai” on panel with Jiang Jin (Fudan University) and Wang Zheng (University of Michigan, conference organizer). Fudan University, Shanghai. June 2009.
Panel discussant, “China Transformed: Artscape/Cityscape.” University of California, Berkeley. October 2008.
“Sites of Visual Modernity: Perceptions of Japanese Exhibitions in Late Qing China.” Conference on the Role of Japan in the Institutional Development of Modern Chinese Art. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. October 2007.
“Zhang Jian and China's First Museum.” Northwest China Council, Portland, Oregon. May 2006.
“Displaying the Nation: Exhibition Culture and the Emergence of Guohua ‘National Painting' in Late Imperial China.” Perspectives on Chinese Art: New Approaches and Reflections on Forty Years of Scholarship, A Conference in Honor of Dr. Chu-tsing Li, Professor Emeritus, University of Kansas. Arizona State University. November 2005.
“Seeing is Believing.” Conference on Knowledge and Belief. Stanford Humanities Center. October 2005.
Comments on “Japanese Literature: History and Present.” 2005 Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. University of Denver. October 2005.
“Some Notes on the Nantong Museum Hall for the Studious and Adventuring Eye.” Inhabiting Visual Modernity in East Asia, 1895-1945. Center for East Asian Art in the Art History Department, University of Chicago. April 2004.
“Believing is Seeing: Representations of Museums in Late Imperial China.” 2004 Association for Asian Studies Conference, San Diego. Panel: “The Nature of Culture: Collecting and Conceptualizing ‘Chinese' Natural History.” March 2004.
“Artifactual Art: Fiction Illustration in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai.” 2004 College Art Association annual meeting, Seattle. Panel: "The Printed Image in East Asia." February 2004.
Invited participant in workshop on critical theory in Chinese studies, Columbia University, organized by Dr. Eugenia Lean. November 2003.
“Publishing Family Secrets: The Yangzhou Portrait Painter Ding Yicheng and the 1818 Jieziyuan huazhuan siji.” 2003 Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, University of Arizona. Co-organizer and participant in panel “Urban Visual Culture in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century China.” October 2003.
“About Face: Physiognomic Diagrams, Painting Manuals, and Portraiture in Nineteenth-Century China.” 7 th Annual Association for Asian Studies Conference, Tokyo, Japan. Organizer, chair and paper presenter in panel “Making Impressions: the Social Use of Chinese Prints in Ming-Qing China and Edo Japan.” June 2003.
Session Chair “From Socialist to Postsocialist Mass Culture.” Entertainment China: Ideology, Industry, Aesthetics, conference on modern Chinese popular culture. University of Oregon. April 2003.
Invited participant in “Touring, Migrating, and Fleeing: Movements of People and Objects in Qing and Republican China” workshop at the Fairbank Center, Harvard University. Organized by Dr. Liping Wang, University of Minnesota. May 2002.
“Zhang Jian and China's First Museum.” 2002 Association for Asian Studies Conference, Washington, D.C. Organizer and paper presenter in conference panel “National Ornaments: East Asia and Exhibitionism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” April 2002.
“Drawing a line between modernity and tradition? Haipai paintings in the 1897 Jieziyuan huazhuan siji. ” International Symposium on Nineteenth-century Chinese Visual Culture, Shanghai. December 2001.
“Painting Manual as Museum Space: The 1897 Jieziyuan huazhuan.” 2001 Association for Asian Studies Conference, Chicago. Organizer and paper presenter in panel “Popular Media, Popular Bodies.” April 2001.
Presented a preliminary version of chapter from “Figuring the Body: Painting Manuals in Late Imperial China” at the Stanford Humanities Center. Fall 2000.
“Imaging the Body Politic: Meiren hua (‘Beautiful Women' painting genre) in Late Qing Illustrated Newspapers.” 43rd International Conference of Eastern Studies (Toho Gakkai), Tokyo. April 1998.