Chinese Painting and Calligraphy

Modern and Contemporary Art

Hong Kong Art

Women and Art

Fashion and Textiles

Museum and Heritage Studies

Refereed Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters

 

Book Chapters

• "Xinzhuang banjiu: Wu Youru hua zhong de shizhuang shinü 新妝半舊——吳友如畫中的時妝士女” (Envisioning the New from the Old Look: Pictures of Fashionable Women by Wu Youru). In Kanjian yu chupeng xingbie: Jin xiandai zhongguo yishushi yanjiu xin shiye 看見與觸碰性別：近現代中國藝術史研究新視野 (Seeing and Touching Gender: New Perspectives on Modern Chinese Art), edited by Yu-Chih Lai, Dorothy Ko, and Aida Yuen Wong, 148–182. Taipei: Rock Publishing, 2020.

 

Journal Articles

 

• “Zhu Da ‘Ge Shan xiaoxiang’ yu Ming-Qing wenren fengshang 朱耷「个山小像」與明清文人風尚” (Zhu Da’s ‘Ge Shan Portrait’ and Literati Culture in the Ming and Qing Periods). Mingqing yanjiu 20, no. 1(2016): 109-134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340006

 

• “The Everyday and the Core: Lin Xue's Untitled Drawings 日常與核心 ——林穴的無題畫.” Leap: The International Art Magazine of Contemporary China 22, no. 4 (September 2013).（http://www.leapleapleap.com/2013/09/日常与核心-林穴的无题画/?lang=zh-hans）

 

Book Chapters

 

• “A Visual Arts Carnival about Horses 「馬」到成功：以馬為主題的香港藝術嘉年華.” In Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2008 香港視覺藝術年鑑 2008, edited by Chan Yuk-keung and Wan Chui-ki Maggie. Hong Kong: Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.

 

Exhibition Catalogues

 

• “The World Beyond Things物外之境.” In Sensing Things, edited by Selina Ho, Fong Fong Chen and Ken Tong, 32–40. Hong Kong: Lingnan University, 2023.

 

• “Xichun tu juan嬉春圖卷”(Entertainments in Spring), “Qinghua tingyuan shinü tu wan 青花庭園仕女圖碗”(Bowl with Ladies in Garden in Underglaze Blue) In Transcending Transience: Art and Culture of Late-Ming Jiangnan 浮世清音：晚明江南藝術與文化, edited by Maggie Wan and Jiang Fangting, cat. 2.6 and 2.7. Hong Kong: The Department of Fine Arts and the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2021.

 

• “Nong hua xiang man yi: Shinü hua zhong de ‘Luofu Xiangying’ tu 弄花香滿衣——仕女畫中的「羅浮香影」圖”. In The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Painting II 北山汲古:中國繪畫（下冊）, edited by Harold Mok, 404-407. Also see “Caressing Flowers Steeped My Clothes in Fragrance: ‘Fragrant Shadows at Luofu’ in Female Figure Paintings.” In The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Painting (Supplementary Catalog), edited by Harold Mok, 47-50. Hong Kong: Department of Fine Arts and the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019.

 

• Tradition to Contemporary: Ink Painting and Artistic Development in 20th-Century China, cat. 1–79, 38–233. Hong Kong: University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU, 2018.

 

• The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Calligraphy 北山汲古——中國書法, cat. 22, 24, 28. Hong Kong: The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014.

 

• Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting, cat. 1-17 and cat. 19-26, 50–87, 94–113. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2013.

 

• (Co-author). “Three Album Leaves about the Drama ‘The Lute’ (Pipa ji 琵琶記).” In The Perfect Brush: Chinese Painting 1300-1900/ Der perfekte Pinsel: chinesische Malerei 1300-1900, edited by Clarrisa von Spee and Adele Schlombs, cat. 24, 104-110. Köln: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, 2010.

 

Creative and Literary Works

 

• Co-curator, “Sensing Things,” Chamber of Young Snow Art Exhibition Hall, Lingnan University, 31 October 2023–29 November 2024

 

• Curator, “Transcending the Gongbi Tradition: Contemporary Hong Kong Fine-Brush Painters,” presented by Hongkong Land, The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong, 26 April to 22 May 2022.E-catalogue and virtual display: https://lnkd.in/guiRxq8R
  Selected Media Coverage
  • Mingpao Weekly, 30 April 2022:https://bit.ly/3LpOuIN
  • Hong Kong Commercial Daily, 6 May 2022: https://bit.ly/3LkhNwy
  • The Standard, 13 May 2022: https://bit.ly/38C2Jgi

 

• Curator, “Silent Voices,” 1a Space, co-organized by HKBU Department of History and 1a Space, 17-31 December 2020.

 

• Curator, “Tradition to Contemporary: Ink Painting and Artistic Development in 20th-century China,” University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 24 Aug.–25 Nov. 2018.

 

• Curator, “Ying Tianqi: What Remains in Ruins,” University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 16 Jun.–27 Aug. 2017.

 

• Curator (in collaboration with Yang Fudong), “Multiple Encounters,” University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 6 Nov. 2013–16 Feb. 2014.

 

• Curatorial Fellow, “Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting,” University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 25 Sept.–22 Dec. 2013.

 

• Invited Guest Curator, “Gazing through the Surface Beauty: Tales of Old Shanghai and Works of Austrian Painter Friedrich Schiff”, presented by The Austrian Consulate General, Hong Kong, Hong Kong City Hall Low Block, 10–21 Mar. 2011.

 

As principal investigator:

 

• 01/2025-12/2027: “Vanished Landscapes: Mapping Hong Kong’s Historic Places of Visual Arts (General Research Fund, HKRGC, HK$758,882)

 

• 01/2024-21/2026: When Clothes Mattered in Female Figure Paintings: Wu Youru and the Media Turn in Shanghai (1870s-1920s) (Early Career Scheme, HKRGC, HK$740,000)

 

• 2023-2024: Print and Preservation: Chinese Books Beyond Technology 古刻薪傳——超越技術的中國書籍 (https://www.ln.edu.hk/daci/events_details?pkey=256)

 

• 2021-2025: Marginalized Communities and Intersectionality in Contemporary Art and Education in Hong Kong (HKADC Project Grant)

 

• 2021-2024: Hong Kong Landscapes and the Arts of Qing Loyalists (yilao) 香港遺珍——香港地景和晚清遺老的書畫藝術 (Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, Hong Kong)

 

As co-investigator:

 

• 2022-2024 Chamber of Young Snow Company Limited, LU-UGC Research Matching Grant on “Chamber of Young Snow Art Exhibition Hall – Research on Chinese Traditional Art and Cultural Sustainability.”