"Trapped Hope: Yang Bu’s Ten-Leaf Album of Yearning Ancient Sages" (by Fu Yanghua) and "Beyond Borders: On the Hanging Scroll Lady Wen-Chi Returning to China at the National Palace Museum of Taipei" (by Xu Xiwen)

Fu Yanghua and Xu Xiwen, visiting scholars at the University of Chicago, will present their research findings.

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.