Research
I explore interactions in art and culture between China, Japan, and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Another focus of my research is Chinese art education and the establishment of the first Chinese art institutions. Recent studies and research interest include Chinese women artists before and during the Second World War, as well as contemporary Chinese art and its market.
Teaching experience
Over the past 14 years, I have taught Asian history through art and culture in numerous college courses and seminars. Concurrently, I also developed Massachusetts’ first Chinese integration curriculum in which Chinese language and Chinese culture are integrated into the public school curriculum. ABC World News Tonight featured my Chinese integration program in a November 2005 broadcast on Chinese language education in U.S. schools.
Courses and seminars taught include
- Chinese Arts and Culture
- “Archi-Culture” – Examining Chinese Culture Through Two Houses
- “The Three Perfections” – Exploring Relationships Between Chinese Calligraphy, Poetry and Painting
- The Scholar’s Studio
- Art and Politics in Twentieth Century China
- The Literati Tradition in Chinese Painting
- Comparing Aesthetic Vision: What Defines Art in China as Chinese and What Are Some Major Differences with Art in the West
- More Than Pagodas and Painted Scrolls: Exploring the Art of China and Japan;
- Chinese Painting
- Buddhism in China and Japan
- Teaching Chinese Language to Non-Chinese Students
- Tradition and Innovation – Chinese Painting in the Twentieth Century
- Where the Treasures Are – How to Teach Chinese History Through Art
Selected Publications
- “Khoan Sullivan Huaxiang” (The Portrait of Khoan Sullivan), to be published in a Collection of Essays, published by Guangzhou Art Institute Press.
- The Secret of Chinese painting. Teaching curriculum on introducing China and Chinese culture through Chinese painting. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2005.
- Major contributor to the exhibition publication, Realized in Wood: Contemporary Prints from China, Boston Printmakers, 2003
- Three Generations of Chinese women Painters, in Three Generations of Chinese Modernism, Vancouver, Canada: Art Beatus Gallery, 1998.
- Translation of Changwuzhi, a Ming Dynasty document on furniture display, for the exhibition “Beyond the screen: Chinese furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries”, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 1996 – present. The translation was also published in the exhibition catalogue, 1996.
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