Chinese art, traditional painting and modern art, East Asian Buddhist art

Research:
Chinese Painting; Chinese sculpture; Japanese art in general; Cross-cultural analysis of East Asian art; Sinological interpretation of Chinese art; Buddhist theology and art; Modern and contemporary Chinese art

Teaching:
Introduction to the Arts of China
In Search of New Visual Language
Introduction to the Arts of Japan
Chinese Painting
Arts of the Tang Dynasty
Arts of the Song Dynasty
Friends of the Cold Season
Dawn of Modern Chinese Art
Modernity and Chinese Art

Books in Progress:
Working title: "Li Gonglin's White Lotus Society Picture and the Tang and Song Quest for Enlightenment"

Select Articles:
"The Formation and Ideology of the Three Laughers Story and its Later Derivative: The Two Laughers," in Professor Chu-tsing Li's Festschrift [in press].

"Painting and Friendship, Private and Political Life: The Case of Li Gonglin (ca. 1049-1106)" in Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies (September 2000).

"Eclecticism in Shen Hao's Painting," in Perspectives on the Heritage of the Brush, Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1997.

"A Southern Song Dynasty Amitabha Triad Painting Reconsidered," in The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81 (November 1994).

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