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Author Christine I. Ho discusses making revolutionary art in the early People’s Republic of China (1949-1965). Learn about Drawing From Life: Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People’s Republic of China here.

Author Kristen Loring Brennan discusses painting and social status in eighteenth-century China. Learn about Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China here.

Author Nozomi Naoi discusses modern Japanese design and the life of Yumeji Takehisa. Learn about Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan here.

Author Eiren Shea discusses fashion at the Mongol court during the 13th and 14th centuries. Learn about Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange here.

Author Mariachiara Gasparini discusses textile history across and beyond the Silk Road between the 7th to 14th centuries. Learn about Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles here.

Author Aurelia Campbell discusses imperial and temple architecture built under the Yongle emperor in the early fifteenth century. Learn about What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming here.

Author Erin Schoneveld discusses White Birch Society’s avant-garde strategies in early 20th-century Japan and its impact on later avant-garde collectives. Learn about Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early Avant-garde here.

Author Rachel Silberstein discusses textile history, craft, and gendered consumption in nineteenth-century China. Learn about A Fashionable Century: Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing here.

Author Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer discusses calligraphy, abstraction, and global contemporary art in postwar Japan. Learn more about Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde here.

Author Nicole Chiang discusses the history of collecting, artistic patronage, and how imperial court production was organized during eighteenth-century China. Learn more about Emperor Qianlong’s Hidden Treasures: Reconsidering the Collection of the Qing Imperial Household here.

Author Stephen H. Whiteman discusses reconstructing an imperial garden with digital tools and the importance of spatial ideology in early eighteenth-century China. Read more about Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe here.

Author John Finlay discusses the mutual fascination that enabled the transfer of objects and styles between eighteenth-century French and Chinese courts. Learn more about Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France here.

Author Lei Xue discusses how the art of writing in China became canonical through preservation in multiple mediums, as well as the many afterlives of a 6th century classic. Read more about Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy here.

Author Mia Yinxing Liu discusses how ideals of the scholar-gentleman and the aesthetics of landscape painting were deployed in the films of 1950s-1970s China. Read more about Literati Lenses: Wenren Landscape in Chinese Cinema of the Mao Era here.

Author Yi Gu discusses how the practice of plein air sketching was critical to shaping, and perceiving, national identity throughout modern Chinese art. Read more about Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting here.

Author Chinghsin Wu discusses conceptualizing global modernism through works by the Japanese artist Koga Harue. Read more about Parallel Modernism: Koga Harue and Avant-Garde Art in Modern Japan here.

Author Yuhang Li discusses the roles of gender and material culture in worshiping the bodhisattva Guanyin between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries in China. Read more about Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China here.

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