Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
Special Symposium on the Legacy of C.C. Wang
A Symposium alongside Wang's publications.
In celebration of the publication of Through a Chinese Connoisseur’s Eye: Private Notes of C.C. Wang, three distinguished panelists will speak about Wang’s connoisseurship, their experience working with him, and his noted collection of Chinese paintings. Speakers include Jerome Silbergeld, P. Y. & Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History at Princeton University, David Sensabaugh, Curator of Asian Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, and Arnold Chang, renowned artist and art historian who studied under C.C. Wang.
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A link to the Talk by C.C. Wang.
Symposia
Multi-disciplinary 1/2 day and full day gatherings of leading scholars in the field of China Studies who discuss art, history, religion and philosophy, archaeology, anthropology, and literature. Current research and groundbreaking ideas are presented in a public forum which welcomes exchanges between scholars and the general public.
The symposia address traditional and contemporary topics ranging from Art and Practice: Buddhism in China from the 5th-9th Centuries; SHU: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art; Meeting of Two Culture: China and Japan at Jingdezhen; and Providing for the Afterlife: “Brilliant Artifacts” from Shandong.
Eminent speakers have included Jonathan Spence (Yale University), Rosemary Scott (Formerly Percival David Foundation), Wu Hung (University of Chicago), Annette Juliano (Rutgers University), Robert Harrist (Columbia University) Maxwell Hearn (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Michael Puett (Harvard University), and many more.
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