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Modern China A Multidisciplinary Exploration
The Cleveland Museum of Art hosts three scholars to explore differing perspectives of modern China.
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This afternoon of talks explores modern China from the perspectives of history, art, politics, and culture. Anita Chung introduces all three speakers.
Wen-hsin Yeh
Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor in History, University of California, Berkeley. The author of Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China 1843–1949 and editor of Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond discusses China’s turbulent 20th century.
Peter Galassi
Chief Curator Emeritus, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York. The curator of the MoMA exhibition Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, introduces Cartier-Bresson’s experience in China and his photographs of the Communist revolution.
Julia Andrews
Professor of Art History, Ohio State University. The co-curator of the Guggenheim exhibition A Century in Crisis and author of Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1979, addresses the study of modern Chinese art history and the state of the field in the U.S.
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