Schedule
A Connective History of Qing Art: Visuality, Images and Imaginaries
University of Hong Kong, June 7–11, 2012
Each paper: 20-25 minutes, Discussants: 10 minutes
| Friday, June 89:00-9:10 | |
| Yeewan Koon (HKU) | Introductory Remarks |
| 9:10–10:50 | |
| Chen Kaijun | Handicraft and Statecraft: Tang Ying’s Album of Imperial Porcelain Manufacture |
| Kristina Kleutghen | Illustrating Perception and Deception: Nian Xiyao and The Study of Vision |
| Roslyn Hammers | Discussant |
| 11:00–12:45 | |
| Stephen Whiteman | Some First Steps into Wang Yuanqi’s Topographic Landscapes |
| Liu Lihong | Landscape for Biography and Diplomacy: Zou Yigui’s Art Before the Court, 1722-1742 |
| Roslyn Hammers | Discussant |
| 12:45-2:30 Lunch | |
| 2:30–5:00 | |
| John Finlay | Cultural Commerce between China and France in the 18th Century: The “40 Views of the Yuanming Yuan” in the Collections of Henri-Léonard Bertin |
| Wang Cheng-hua | Beijing as Imperial Theater: A Global Perspective on the Images of Qianlong’s Eightieth Birthday Celebration |
| Lai Yu-chih | Priming the Empire: Birds, Beasts and Peoples at the Qianlong Court |
| Greg Thomas | Discussant |
| Saturday, June 910:00–12:30 | |
| Nixi Cura | Finger Painting as Qing Contemporary Art |
| Michele Matteini | Three Friends, a Crane, a Constellation: The Cult of Su Shi in Eighteenth-century Xuannan District |
| Yeewan Koon | Gods at Leisure: Myths, History and Intimacy in Su Renshan’s Buddhist Art |
| Jenny Purtle | Discussant |
| 12:30-2:00 lunch | |
| 2:00–3:30 | |
| Roberta Wue | Big Names and Little Games: Shanghai’s Dianshizhai Publisher, Artist Prints and Their Audiences |
| Lisa Claypool | Fountain Pens, Inksticks, and No. 2 Pencils: Artist’s Tools in Late Imperial Shanghai |
| Jenny Purtle | Discussant |
| Sunday, June 1010:00–12:30 | |
| Cole Roskam | Writing Liminality: Yue Jiazao’s Chinese Architectural History |
| Francesca Dal Lago | Why realism at the end of the Qing? Socio-political reforms, visual choices and new ways of seeing |
| Guo Hui | Canonization of Qing Art in the Early Twentieth Century |
| Miriam Basilio and Joan Kee | Discussants |