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Word & Image: Chinese Woodblock Prints
This symposium, organized in conjunction with the exhibition “Gardens, Art, and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints,” explores the relationship and interaction between image and text in woodblock prints during the late Ming and Qing periods.
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Nov 12, 2016
Saturday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
China’s late Ming period witnessed an unprecedented production of woodblock images, printed for a variety of purposes ranging from stationery paper to pictorial books. This symposium, organized in conjunction with the exhibition “Gardens, Art, and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints,” explores the relationship and interaction between image and text in woodblock prints during the late Ming and Qing periods. $15. Optional lunch can be pre-ordered for an additional $16. Register online. Rothenberg Hall.
Symposium Schedule
8:30 a.m. - Registration & Coffee
9:15 a.m. - Welcome and Introduction
June Li, curator emerita, Garden of Flowing Fragrance, The Huntington
Suzanne E. Wright, associate professor, School of Art: Art History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
9:30 a.m. - Keynote Speaker
Nature, Print, and Art: Commerce and Garden Culture in Late Imperial China
Kai-Wing Chow, associate head, professor of East Asian languages and cultures, professor of history, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:00 a.m. - Morning Session
Moderator: Soren Edgren, professor, Rare Book School, former editorial director of the Chinese Rare Books Project
10:15 a.m. - Illustrating Encyclopedic Knowledge in the Ming
He Yuming, associate professor of Chinese, East Asian languages and cultures, University of California, Davis
10:50 a.m. - 15-minute break
11:05 a.m. - The Kangxi Emperor’s Thirty-Six Views: The Making of an Imperial Publication
Richard Strassberg, professor, Asian languages and cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
11:40 p.m. - Session discussion
12:15 p.m. - Lunch
2:00 p.m. - Afternoon Session
Moderator: Lucille Chia, professor, Department of History, University of California, Riverside
2:15 p.m. - Poetic Pictures in Late-Ming Illustrated Dramatic Publications
Meng-ching Ma, associate professor, Center for General Education and Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
2:50 p.m. - The Swallow Messenger: Text and Image
Suzanne E. Wright, associate professor, School of Art: Art History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
3:25 p.m. - 15-minute break
3:40 p.m. - A Panoply of Metaphor: Painting and Intermediality in the Late Ming
Hu Jun, assistant professor, East Asian art, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
4:15 p.m. - Session discussion
4:45 p.m. - Closing panel
This symposium was made possible by generous support from the Justin Vajna Memorial Fund for Educational Programs in the Chinese Garden.
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