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Asian Art History

Asian Art

Art, Science, and Diplomacy in French India

A review of Mercantile Aesthetics: Art, Science, and Diplomacy in French India (1664-1761), by Liza Oliver. This dissertation unravels the meaning of ...
Asian Art

Paintings of Zhong Kuai and Demons in 11th to 14th Century China

A Review of Imagining the Supernatural Grotesque: Paintings of Zhong Kui and Demons in the Late Southern Song (1127-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) Dynasti...
Asian Art

Visual Culture & Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi

A review of Art in Between Empires: Visual Culture & Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi, 1748-1857, by Yuthika Sharma. In Art Between Empires...
Asian Art

Performing the Sacred in Newar Buddhist Art

A review of Dīpaṅkara Buddha and the Patan Samyak Mahādāna in Nepal: Performing the Sacred in Newar Buddhist Art, by Kerry Lucinda Brown. This dissert...
Asian Archaeology

DHAsia 2017 Call for Proposals

DHAsia, a pioneering Digital Humanities initiative at Stanford University, is seeking proposals for its 2017 short-term residency program focused on E...
Asian Art

Representations of Commoner Performance in Early Medieval Japan

A review of Performing Culture: Representations of Commoner Performance in Early Medieval Japan, by Ashton Lazarus. The clatter of binzasara rattles a...
Asian Art

Experimental Photography of Ruins in China

A review of Building a History of Experimental Photography of Ruins in Chinese Demolition, by Xavier Ortells-Nicolau. “A philosopher who has evolved h...
Asian Art

Sketching & Socialist Realist Painting in the Early People’s Republic of China

A review of Drawing from Life: Mass Sketching and the Formation of Socialist Realist Guohua in the Early People’s Republic of China (1949-1965), by Ch...
Asian Archaeology

The Horse in Pre-Imperial China

A review of The Horse in Pre-Imperial China, by Xiang Wan This dissertation provides a rich account of the role of the domestic horse in...
Asian Art

Chinese Images in Late Chosŏn Art

A review of Connecting Across Boundaries: The Use of Chinese Images in Late Chosŏn Court Art from Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, by...
Asian Art

The Architecture and Spatial Components of Mosques in China

A review of The Traditional Chinese Style Mosque, by Sadiq Javer. The first chapter, also the Introduction, describes the scope and purpose of the dis...
Asian Art

Art Meets Scholarship: Q&A with Tong Lam

When Art Meets Scholarship in the Age of Digital Production: A Q&A with Tong Lam Professor Tong Lam is Associate Professor of History at the...
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