Discussant
Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast
June 1977
Location
Association for Asian Studies Regional Conference, Eugene
Artists and Patrons: Some Economic and Social Aspects of Chinese Painting
American Council of Learned Societies Workshop, November 1980
Location
Nelson Gallery of Art
Old Age, Death, and Immortality in East Asian Art
Panel coordinator and discussant, April 1983
Location
Northwest Regional Seminar on East Asia
Ageing and Art: Aspects of Chinese Painting, Painting Criticism and Theory
April 1983
Location
Northwest Regional Seminar on East Asia, Seattle
Painting and Visual Culture
Panel co–chair and discussant, International Symposium on Chinese Art of the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, July 1996
Location
Chicago Art Institute and University of Chicago
Panel Participant
Art and Politics in 20th–Century China
Moderator, March 1985
Location
Northwest Regional Seminar on East Asia, Seattle
Chinese Landscape Painting: Style, Content, and Context
Chairman, February 1986
Location
College Art Association national conference
High Art, Low Art, Chinese Art: Changing Views
Chair, February, 1993
Location
College Art Association national conference, Seattle
The Chinese Avant–garde Abroad
Chair and discussant, July, 1993
Location
“China’s New Art: The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Avant–Garde,” Vancouver, B.C.
Painting and Visual Culture
Panel co–chair and discussant, International Symposium on Chinese Art of the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, July 1996
Location
Chicago Art Institute and University of Chicago
Art History Open Session: Asian Art
Chair, February, 1999
Location
College Art Association national conference, Los Angeles
Who Is the Audience?
Lecturer and Panel Moderator, Februaury, 1999
Location
Exhibition symposium for “Inside Out: New Chinese Art,”San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Referee Must Have a Rule Book
Discussant and moderator, December, 1999
Location
Symposium on “Issues of Authentication and Connoisseurship in Chinese Art,” Metropolitan Museum of Art
Huizong and the Culture of Northern Song China
Chair, March, 2000
Location
Association for Asian Studies national conference, San Diego
Huizong and the Culture of the Northern Song
Discussant, panel on “Artistic Practice,” February, 2001
Location
University of Washington
Symposia
Inner Visions, Outer Storms: Chinese Painting in the Modern Era
Chairman, April 1989
Location
China Institute in America, New York
Painting and Theory: What Relationship?
Discussant, International Symposium on Tung Ch’i–ch’ang, March 1992
Location
Nelson–Atkins Museum, Kansas City
A Scholar’s Delight: International Symposium Celebrating the Newly Opened Seattle Asian Art Museum,
Moderator, November, 1994
Location
Seattle Asian Art Museum
New Interpretations of Ming and Qing Painting
Discussant, First Chinese American Symposium on Fine Arts, December, 1994
Location
The Palace Museum and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Politics, Society, and Culture
Discussant, International Symposium on the Arts of the Sung and Yüan, May 1996
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Painting and Visual Culture
Panel co–chair and discussant, International Symposium on Chinese Art of the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, July 1996
Location
Chicago Art Institute and University of Chicago
Pan Tianshou and the Jiangnan Art Tradition
co–authored with primary author Professor Hong Zaixin (Chinese National University, Hangzhou), April, 1998
Location
Jiangnan: International Symposium on Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yangzi River,” Vancouver, B.C.
Who Is the Audience?
Lecturer and Panel Moderator, Februaury, 1999
Location
Exhibition symposium for “Inside Out: New Chinese Art,”San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Fixation, Derivation, and Genre Formation: The Past as Present in `Fifth Generation’ Chinese Cinema
April, 1999
Location
Symposium on “Memory, Modernity, and the Millennium in Contemporary Chinese Culture,” University of British Columbia
The Referee Must Have a Rule Book
Discussant and moderator, December, 1999
Location
Symposium on “Issues of Authentication and Connoisseurship in Chinese Art,” Metropolitan Museum of Art
What Is To Be Learned
January, 2000
Location
Symposium on “Future Perfect, Present Tense: The Avant–Garde in China,” Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Inside Out: New Chinese Art
Symposium co–organizer, lecture series co–organizer, advisory board member, Winter, 2000
Location
UW Henry Art Gallery and Tacoma Art Museum
Writing Culture: A Symposium on Chinese Calligraphy
Co-chair, April, 2001
Location
Seattle Asian Art Museum
Interviews
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Lectures
Politics Without People: The Function of Nature in the Landscape Arts of Kung Hsien
June 1973
Location
Association for Asian Studies, Regional Conference, Vancouver
Conquered Land: Political Symbolism in the Landscape Arts of Kung Hsien
October 1974
Location
Art Historians of the Pacific Northwest, Seattle
The Political Landscapes of Kung Hsien, in Painting and Poetry
September 1975
Location
International Symposium on Painting and Calligraphy by Ming I–min, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chinese Painting After the Mongol Invasion: Traditions and Synthesis
April 1976
Location
American Oriental Society, West Coast Branch Annual Meeting, Portland
Chinese Ceremonial Bronzes in the Seattle Art Museum
October 1976
Location
Seattle Art Museum
Chinese Blue and Green Style Landscape Paintings in the Seattle Art Museum
October 1976
Location
Seattle Art Museum
Han Art Reassessed: The Ma wang tui Paintings
April 1979
Location
Northwest Regional Seminar on China, Seattle
The Willow in Chinese Painting and Literature
November 1979
Location
Northwest Regional Seminar on China, Seattle
Funeral Banners and Painted Coffins: The Re Discovery of Early Han Painting Style
January 1980
Location
Maude I. Kerns Asian Art Lecture Series, Inaugural Lecture, University of Oregon
Kung Hsien: The Professional Artist and His Patronage
April 1980
Location
Northwest Regional Seminar on China, Seattle
Chinese Painting Under the Manchus
August 1980
Location
Bellevue Art Museum
Art in the People’s Republic of China 1980
January 1981
Location
Northwest Regional Council on China, Seattle
The Great Bronze Age of China: Introduction to an Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China
February 1981
Location
Seattle Art Museum
Suchou’s Garden of the Master of Nets
January 1983
Location
Sun Yat–sen Garden Society, Vancouver, B.C.
The Dunhuang Buddhist Caves: A Study in Breadth
October 1983
Location
Seattle Art Museum
Neo Confucianism and the Art of Chinese Painting
November 1983
Location
Seattle Art Museum
In Praise of Government: Chao Yung’s Painting, Noble Steeds, and Late Yüan Politics
April 1984
Location
Regional Seminar in Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Chinese Concepts of Old Age and their Role in Chinese Painting, Painting Theory and Criticism
February 1985
Location
College Art Association national conference, Los Angeles
Chinese Concepts of Old Age and their Role in Chinese Painting, Painting Theory and Criticism
March 1987
Location
University of Michigan
Internal and External Sources of Value in Two Twelfth Century Chinese Paintings
February 1988
Location
College Art Association national conference, Houston
Neo Confucianism, Individualism, and Late Ming Painting Theory,” Shanghai Museum
March 1988
Location
Shanghai Museum “Scholar’s Studio” exhibition lecture series, Seattle Art Museum
Ten thousand Volumes, Ten thousand Miles: The Artistic Odyssey of C. C. Wang
July 1988
Location
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco
Ten thousand Volumes, Ten thousand Miles: The Artistic Odyssey of C. C. Wang
November 1989
Location
University of Kansas
Spirit–Journeys –– Traveling in Fashion: Excavated Art from the Han Dynasty Tombs at Mawangdui
March 1990
Location
Portland Art Museum
Conformity and Acceptability in the Art of Socialist China
March 1990
Location
University of Kansas
Strong and (Sometimes) Docile, The Horse as Public Servant: Interpretations of Artistic Intent in Traditional Chinese Painting
June 1990
Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Censorship and Individualism in the Art of Socialist China: The Painters Chen Zizhuang and Li Huasheng
October 1990
Location
Lansdowne Distinguished Lectureship, University of Victoria
Horses and Public Servants: Artistic Individualism in Traditional Chinese Painting
October 1990
Location
Lansdowne Distinguished Lectureship, University of Victoria
Art Censorship in Socialist China: A Do–It–Yourself System
February 1991
Location
College Art Association national conference, Washington, D.C.
Cynical Idealism: Making the Chinese Artist Free
February, 1996
Location
University of Oregon Museum’s Chinese Avant–Garde Exhibition
Victims and Rebels: Images of Women in Recent Chinese Cinema
February 1996
Location
Reed College
Victims and Rebels: Images of Women in Recent Chinese Cinema
February, 1996
Location
University of Oregon
Victims, Warriors, Crusaders, Collaborators: The Female Analogy in Recent Chinese Cinema
October, 1996
Location
New England East Asian Art History Seminar, Harvard University
Political Melodrama and No-Drama in Recent Chinese Cinema
November, 1996
Location
Political Melodrama and No-Drama in Recent Chinese Cinema
Victims, Warriors, Crusaders, Collaborators: The Female Analogy in Recent Chinese Cinema
November, 1996
Location
Brown University
Is China a Culture in Ruins? A Cinematic View,” symposium on “Ruins in Chinese Visual Culture
May, 1997
Location
University of Chicago
Dragons and Terrorists: A Comparison of Hong Kong and Taiwan Cinema
September, 1997
Location
Seattle Art Museum
Chinese Scholars’ Rocks
October, 1997
Location
Seattle Asian Art Museum
Ruins Into Art: Cinematic Views of China’s Cultural Decline
Robert Lehman Distinguished Lecturer, March, 1998
Location
Bowdoin College
Gender and Allegory: Traditional Rhetoric and the Chinese Search for Cinematic Form
Robert Lehman Distinguished Lecturer, March, 1998
Location
Bowdoin College
Pan Tianshou and the Jiangnan Art Tradition
co–authored with primary author Professor Hong Zaixin (Chinese National University, Hangzhou), April, 1998
Location
Jiangnan: International Symposium on Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yangzi River,” Vancouver, B.C.
Gender, Allegory, Melodrama: Traditional Chinese Rhetoric and the Modern Pursuit of Cinematic Form
May, 1998
Location
Art History Department/Center for International Studies, Stanford University
The Traditionalism of the Cinematic Avant–Garde: An Art Historical Perspective
May, 1998
Location
Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York
Contemporary Chinese Cinema in Art Historical Perspective: Traditional Rhetoric and the Pursuit of Cinematic Form
October, 1998
Location
Princeton University
Yellow Earth and the Traditionalism of Chinese ‘Avant–Garde’ Cinema
January, 1999
Location
Seattle Asian Art Museum
Who Is the Audience?
Lecturer and Panel Moderator, Februaury, 1999
Location
Exhibition symposium for “Inside Out: New Chinese Art,”San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Fixation, Derivation, and Genre Formation: The Past as Present in `Fifth Generation’ Chinese Cinema
April, 1999
Location
Symposium on “Memory, Modernity, and the Millennium in Contemporary Chinese Culture,” University of British Columbia
Not Just One ‘Chinese’ Style: Different Gardens North and South, East and West, Here and There, Then and Now
April, 1999
Location
Symposium on “The Cultural Dimensions of a Chinese Garden,” Lewis and Clark College/University of Oregon, Portland
Beyond the Essential Chinese Garden: Sichuan Style, Memorial Gardens, and Regional Diversity in Chinese Architecture
September, 1999
Location
Princeton University
The Collector as Artist: Uses of the Past in the Paintings of C. C. Wang
September, 1999
Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Not Just One ‘Chinese’ Style: Different Gardens North and South, East and West, Here and There, Then and Now
October, 1999
Location
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma
Art and the Deal: Corporate Culture and the Traditional Chinese Garden
October, 1999
Location
Microsoft Campus, Redmond
Art and the Deal: Corporate Culture and the Traditional Chinese Garden
November, 1999
Location
King County (Washington) Corporate Council for the Arts
What Is To Be Learned
January, 2000
Location
Symposium on “Future Perfect, Present Tense: The Avant–Garde in China,” Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Suzhou Is Not Enough: ‘Sichuan Style’ Gardens and Chinese Regional Architecture
February, 2000
Location
UCLA
Balancing the Equation: The Traditionalism of the Avant–Garde and the Radicalism of Traditional Chinese Painting
February, 2000
Location
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
The Metropolitan Museum ‘Trial’: A Judgment on Eleven Counts
March, 2000
Location
Portland Art Museum
A Farewell to Arts: Memory, Struggle, and Cinematic Survival in the People’s Republic of China
April, 2000
Location
Seattle Art Museum
Waltzing with the Censor: Conventions of Protest in Contemporary Chinese Art
April, 2000
Location
Seattle Art Museum
Su Dongpo’s ‘Red Cliff’ Poems: A Classic Theme in Chinese Scholar Painting and the Museum of Fine Arts’ ‘Red Cliff’ Handscroll
May, 2000
Location
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The 4th Art in China: Garden Building and the Unity of the Fine Arts
July, 2000
Location
Summer Arts Festival, University of Washington
Reflections on the Technical Basis of Chinese Painting Style
September, 2000
Location
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Art Without History: On ‘Style’ in Chinese Painting
September, 2000
Location
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
A Faulknerian View of the Chinese Avant–Garde
October, 2000
Location
Oxford University, Ashmolean Museum
Hitchcock With a Chinese Face: Lou Ye’s Suzhou River
November, 2000
Location
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
‘The Highest Good’: Water as Culture in China
Conference on “Asia H2O: Water Issues Across Asia,” February, 2001
Location
University of Washington
Virtue Made Visible: Writing Style as Moral Display
Gallery Lecture, March, 2001
Location
Seattle Asian Art Museum
Three Paradigms for the Consideration of Authenticity in Chinese Art
March, 2001
Location
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, San Francisco
In Cinema: China’s Intellectuals and Their Modern Fate
Film Series Curator and Lecturer, April, 2001
Location
Seattle Art Museum
What is ‘China’?: Race, Region, and Class in the Shaping of a Modern Chinese Image
May, 2001
Location
Seattle Art Museum
Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan
with Seattle Art Museum Curator of Chinese Art Jay Xu, May, 2001
Location
sponsored by University Bookstore, Seattle
Undefining China: Art and Borders in Chinese History
July, 2001
Location
Seattle Art Museum
From the One, Many, and Back Again: Originality and Derivation in Chinese Art
July, 2001
Location
University of Washington Summer Arts Festival, Seattle
The Theme’s the Message: Teaching Chinese Painting
Workshop, August, 2001
Location
University of Hawaii
Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and Lou Ye’s Suzhou River
February, 2002
Location
Oberlin College and Ohio State University