Dr. Lei Yong, Palace Museum, Beijing
How, when, and where objects were made are questions that bridge together art, technology, and science. Dr. Yong will briefly introduce three cases about Chinese Faience in the Western and Eastern Zhou Dynasties, Hu pottery in Han Dynasty and Tang Sancai, focusing on archaeological interpretation.
Some Chinese beads might have been produced in the West 3000 years ago. Dr. Yong would like to look at why ceramics techniques in the Han Dynasty appear to have declined. Former research methodology on large ceramic human and animal figures in the Tang Dynasty might need to be revised due to the discovery of Tang Sancai.
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Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia
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.