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Ying Wang

  • Associate Professor, Asian Art and Bronze Age China, Art History

Education

  • PhD, History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, 2000
  • MA, Art History, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 1990
  • BA, Art History, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 1985

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ARTHIST 383-201 Japanese Art and Architecture No Meeting Pattern
ARTHIST 383G-201 Japanese Art and Architecture No Meeting Pattern
ARTHIST 386-001 Art, Ritual, and Ethnicity of China TR 11:30am-12:45pm
ARTHIST 386G-001 Art, Ritual, and Ethnicity of China TR 11:30am-12:45pm

Courses Taught

  • ARTHIST 105 - Art and Architecture of Asia
  • ARTHIST 192 - Hidden Dragon—Image and Meaning in Chinese Art
  • ARTHIST 281 - Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art
  • ARTHIST 382 - Art and Architecture of China
  • ARTHIST 383 - Japanese Art and Architecture
  • ARTHIST 386 - Art, Ritual, Ethnicity of China
  • ARTHIST 387 - Buddhist Art and Architecture
  • ARTHIST 480 - Chinese Painting
  • ARTHIST 481 - Topics in Chinese Art--Arts of Modern and Contemporary China and Its Cultural Heritage.
  • Art of Intellectuals of Ancient and Contemporary China. Art along the Silk Road. Religious Arts of China
  • ARTHIST 770 - Bronze Age Art and Culture of China and Northeast Asia
  • ARTHIST 770 - Arts and Problems of the Trans-Himalayas

Research Interests

  • Pilgrimage of Tibet
  • Bronze Age arts and culture of China

Selected Publications

Articles

“须弥芥子,鹤发萌童Beginning of learning at Mt. Sumeru—Department of Art History of 1981,” Memorial for Prof. Jin Weino’s 99 years, special volume 2. Jinmen Yasong, 2023,12,07 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/HE37eiwEI7BUydYyhtRVJw

“The use of dung in Northern Tibetan culture—from grassland to grassland,” The Center for 21st Century Studies, UWM. May 3, 2023. https://www.c21uwm.com/2023/05/03/the-use-of-dung-in-northern-tibetan-culture-from-grassland-to-grassland/

“The Ending of Guge Kingdom and The Jesuit,” in Asian Buddhist Art Anthology: East Asia, Vol. 5. Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties. Ed.by: Noriko Miyazaki, Masahide Mori. Translated by Wang Jueren. Tokyo: Chuo-koron Bijutsu Shuppan Co., Ltd. 2022. P.477-516

“Thog-Icag, Search for the cultural origins of the Tibetan Bronze artwork,” Remembrances of Li Xueqin. ed. Research and Conservation Center for Excavated Texts, Tsinghua University. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2021. 479-502

“The crucial change: comparison between the silk textile of Mawangdui and early silk production ---the relationship of silk production and royal control viewed from the bone spatula of the late Shang Dynasty,” Proceedings of the International Symposium Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Excavation of the Han Tombs at Mawangdui. Ed., Hunan Museum. Changsha: Yuelu Publishing House, 2017, 666-677.

“The Cloud Brocade and Yangzhou.” The 11th Biennial Symposium, Textile Society of America. Textile Society of America, (2010): CD form.

Book Editing

Wang, Ying, ed., “Introduction”, Bronze Age China, Style and Material. Cambridge Scholars Publisher. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-4438-2282-4

The Jade Collection of the Tianjing Art Museum. With an introduction by Guoqiang Li and Bingjun Liu. Hong Kong & Beijing: Liangmu Press of Dayie Cop. & Wenwu Press, 1993.

Editorial Team Member

The Great Treasures of Chinese Bronze Art, 16 vols. Li Xueqing, Ma Chengyuan, editors-in-chiefBeijing: Wenwu Press, 1990-1997.

Book

Connoisseurship of Ancient Chinese Painting.  Guilin: Lijiang Press, 1995 (In Chinese)

Books

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