Research

"Zhang Jian and China's First Museum," Journal of Asian Studies 64, no. 3 (August 2005): 567-604.
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"Ways of Seeing the Nation: Chinese Painting in the National Essence Journal (1905-1911) and Exhibition Culture," forthcoming, positions: east asia cultures critique

Figuring the Social Body: Painting Manuals in Late Imperial China
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"Painting Manuals and Gendered Modernity in Republican-era Shanghai"

Essay contributed to anthology entitled In the Name of Woman:  Art, Beauty, and Politics in Modern East Asia , edited by Aida Yuen Wong, Brandeis University.   Under review at Hong Kong University Press.

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“Sites of Visual Modernity: Perceptions of Japanese
Exhibitions in Late Qing China”

Essay contributed to a conference volume on the role of Japan in the institutional development of modern Chinese art edited by Joshua Fogel, York University.  Under review at the University of California Press.

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CHINA URBAN
Reed College Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
April 7-June 7, 2009
catalog produced in collaboration with Stephanie Snyder, Director of the Cooley Gallery, and with students in Art 395 "Art in Contemporary China" (in press)

For interview with exhibiting artist Xie Xiaoze, see "China Urban: An Interview with Xie Xiaoze," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 8, no. 4 (July/August 2009): 41-50.

See also "Curating China Urban, Seeing Urban China," in a conference volume entitled The Status of Theory in Contemporary Chinese Film and Visual Culture, edited by Jason Kuo, University of Maryland. Cambria Press, forthcoming.

for information about the exhibition, see
http://www.reed.edu/gallery

"Urbanians and the City: The Shanghai 2010 World Expo." article in progress, will be submitted to Res: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics.

photograph forthcoming. Artifactual Art: Painting and Science in Modern China. book manuscript in progress.


other contributions to the field:

"Na Chih-liang's Socks" A review of
The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures by Jeannette Elliott Shambaugh with David Shambaugh (caareviews 2005)

Encyclopedia entries on art museums and the 19th-century painter and print designer Ren Xiong, for the Gale Encylopedia of Modern China (Scribner's, 2009)

"Body Language." Under review at Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art

"The China Syndrome: Lisa Claypool in Conversation with Zhou Yi and Peter Kreider," to be submitted to Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (work in progress)