The Body Beyond Flesh and Bone: Unpacking the Body Construction in Western Han Princely Tombs

Shi Jie, a Ph. D. candidate in the Art History Department at the University of Chicago will speak about the Western Han Princely Tombs.

This workshop serves as a critical forum for the presentation of work addressing problems in the visual and material studies of East Asia, a region defined broadly to include China, Central, Asia, Japan, Korea, and Tibet. This workshop explores if and how theories of visuality current in western contexts may be applied to East Asia, and how approaches from both Eastern and Western scholarship may be fruitfully combined in visual and material studies.