Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Chinese Art
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2004

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Berliner, Nancy, “Yin Yu Tang, the Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House” (Harvard, E. Lajer-Burcharth)

Chang, Chin-Sung, “Mountains and Rivers, Pure and Splendid: Wang Hui (1632–1717) and the Making of Landscape Panoramas in Early Qing China” (Yale, R. Barnhart)

Chen, Hui-Hung, “Missionaries and Images: Jesuit Visual Culture in Sixteenth- to Seventeenth-Century China” (Brown, J. Muller)

Hsu, Hsin-Mei Agnes, “Pictorial Eulogies in Three Eastern Han Tombs” (Pennsylvania, N. Steinhardt)

Lee, Hyun-Sook, “The Longmen Guyang Cave: Sculpture and Calligraphy of the Northern Wei (386–534)” (Pennsylvania, N. Steinhardt)

Lee, Sonya, “Nirvana Imagery in Medieval Chinese Art” (Chicago, H. Wu)

Lingley, Kate, “Widows, Monks, Magistrates, and Concubines: Social Dimensions of Sixth-Century Buddhist Art Patronage” (Chicago, H. Wu)

Nakatani, Hajime, “Bodies and Signs in Medieval China” (Chicago, H. Wu)

Pluth, Lisa, “Xumishan Grotto 105 and the Iconography of Tang Dynasty Dizang” (Kansas, A. McNair)

Wu, Xiaolong, “Bronze Industry, Stylistic Tradition, and Cultural Identity in Ancient China: Bronze Artifacts of the Zhongshan State, Warring States Period (476–221 BCE)” (Pittsburgh, K. Linduff)

Yen, Shou-Chih Isaac, “Xu Wei’s Zahua: a Study of Genres” (Yale, D. Sensabaugh)

Yong, Ying, “Ancient Chinese Marriage and Statecraft in a Zhou Vassal State: Elite Female Burials of the Jin State” (Pittsburgh, K. Linduff)

Yu, Jiang, “Statecraft and Cemetery in Early Dynastic China: Yu Funerary Arts in the Zhou” (Pittsburgh, K. Linduff)