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Dr. Hui-shu Lee 李慧漱 from University of California Los Angeles

Lecture: Art of the Brush: Looking at Chinese Painting

Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM, June 18th, 2022

Languages: English and Mandarin

Chinese art historian Dr. Hui-shu Lee will give a lecture on pre-twentieth-century Chinese art history. She is a professor at University of California, Los Angeles.

Hui-shu Lee received her doctorate degree from Yale University in 1994 after first studying at National Taiwan University and working in the National Palace Museum. Her field of specialization is Chinese painting and visual culture in the pre-modern era, with a particular focus on gender issues. She also works extensively on representations of place, cultural mapping, and garden culture. Among her publications are Exquisite Moments: West Lake & Southern Song Art (New York: China Institute, 2001) and Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010). She is currently working on two book projects: transference of gender persona in Chinese painting and representations of West Lake in visual culture of the post-Song era. [ Continue reading… ]