Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
Curator’s Lecture
A lecture to accompany an exhibition of Chinese art.
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Kuiyi Shen and Julia Andrews, guest co-curators of the exhibition, will speak about their work on Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974–1985. Kuiyi Shen is Director of Chinese Studies Program and Professor of Asian Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of California, San Diego. His teaching and writings have focused on Chinese and Japanese art with an emphasis on modern and contemporary Chinese art and Sino-Japanese art exchanges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Julia Andrews is Professor of Art History at the Ohio State University and a specialist in Chinese painting and modern Chinese art. Her first book, Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China (1994), won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book of the year on modern China.
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