Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia Conference
Department of Fine Arts | University of Hong Kong

Papers

The Performance of Visual Narratives in Imperial Art: Two Case Studies from Assyria and the Khmer Empire
Polymorphic Narratives of Asia and Europe in the Nineteenth Century
Translating Text into Image: Beyan-ı Menazil, an Illustrated Ottoman Manuscript
Text and Image during the 11th Century at Bagan, Burma – Reviewing Origins and Purpose
Prioritizing Enlightenment: Organizing Burmese and Thai Murals of the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Tales of Courtship: Encountering the Mongols
Visual Narrative as Performative: The Ramayana Murals of Mattanceri Palace, Kerala, India
Modern Articulations: Visual Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Telling Tales (or How Su Renshan Berated Confucius)
Narrating Historical Women and Fictional Characters in Ming and Qing China: A Matter of Encoding Remembrances and Contemporaneity
Storytelling in Real Space: Viewership and Nirvana Narratives in Cave Temples of China
Becoming Active in a Central Theravada Buddhist Narrative: The Vessantara Painted Scrolls of Northeast Thailand and Lowland Laos
Finding a Place for the Jain Site at Udayagiri/Khandagiri in Orissa
Vignettism in the Poetics of Chinese Narrative Painting
Avadanas in the Newar Buddhist Tradition of the Kathmandu Valley: Ritual Performances of Mahayana Narratives
Visual Narratology in China and Japan around 1600 – A Comparative Study
Reading the World’s Landscape in Zhang Bao's Images of the Floating Raft
Poetry, Incense, Card Games, and Pictorial Narrative Coding in Early Modern Genji Pictures
Narrative Place and Network Thinking: The Ramayana and Krishnayana in Early Java