Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Fine Arts

Fine Arts
German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature

Expertise

Asian art.

Awards and Honors

Associate Editor for East Asia, Modern Art Asia (2013)

Field Editor for Chinese Books, CAA.REVIEWS (2013)

American Council of Learned Societies (and NEH) American Research in the Humanities in China Fellowship (2012)

Field Editor for Chinese and Korean Books, CAA.REVIEWS (2012)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects (2009)

American Council of Learned Societies (and NEH) American Research in the Humanities in China Fellowship (2002 - 2003)

University of Chicago Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999)

Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (1994 - 1995)

University of Western Ontario Gold Medal in Visual Arts and French (1991)

Courses Taught

FA	12a	History of Asian Art
FA	70b	The Art of China
FA	71b	The Art of Japan
FA	170a	Arts of the Ming Dynasty
FA	171b	Buddhist Art
FA	197a	Studies in Asian Art
FYS	20b	Art and the Asian City: Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong

Scholarship

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Modernism: China." Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. 2 ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 (forthcoming)

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Rabindranath Tagore's Mysterious Faces and India's Encounter with Modernism." The Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global Modernisms. Ed. Andy Reynolds and Bonnie Roos. Gainesville: The University Press of Florida, Under Review, 2014 (forthcoming)

Ruan Yuan (Wong, Aida Yuen). "Kang Youwei yu Shanghai meishu jiaoyu (Kang Youwei and Shanghai Art Education)." Proceedings of the Conference on the Centenary of the Founding of the Shanghai School of Fine Arts. Ed. Liu Haisu Museum. Shanghai: Liu Haisu Museum, 2013 (forthcoming)

Wong, Aida Yuen [Ruan Yuan]. "Art has a Human Face." Bonds of Memory: Wan Qingli’s Collection of Chinese Art Given by His Teachers and Friends. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2013. (In English with Chinese Translation). (forthcoming)

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Kingfisher Blue in Ming Arts: Status Symbol, Material Invention, and Intercultural Connections." Colour Histories. Ed. Magdalena Bushart and Friedrich Steinle. Berlin: De Gruyter Verlag, 2013 (forthcoming)

Ruan Yuan [Wong, Aida Yuen]. "Mr. Ma Guoquan: Scholar-Calligrapher Par Excellence." Wanhua Tang fuzi shuhua hebi—Ma Guoquan Ma Dawei shuhua zhuanke yishuji (Father-and-son joint exhibition of painting and calligraphy from the Hall of the Evening Blossoms—Collection of Calligraphy, Painting, and Calligraphy by Ma Guoquan and Ma Dawei). Shenzhen: Haitian Chubanshe, 2013. 200-203.

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Reforming Calligraphy in Modern Japan: The Six Dynasties School and Nakamura Fusetsu’s Chinese ‘Stele’ Style." The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art. Ed. Joshua A.Fogel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 131-153.

Wong, Aida Yuen, ed. Visualizing Beauty: Gender and Ideology in Modern East Asia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012.

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Art of Non-Resistance: Elitism, Fascist Aesthetics, and the Taiwanese Painter Lin Chih-chu." Art and War in Japan and its Empire: 1930-1960. Ed. Asato Ikeda, Ming Tiampo, and Louisa McDonald. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 305-323.

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Landscapes of Empowerment: Fu Baoshi's Reappropriation of the 'Chinese' Rainscape Tradition from Japan." Journal of the History of Modern Art (In English with Korean Translation). December, no. 32 (2012): 175-219.

Wong, Aida Yuen, co-authored with Tamaki Maeda. "Kindred Spirits: Fu Baoshi and the Japanese Art World." Chinese Art in the Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965). Ed. Anita Chung, exh. cat. Cleveland Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Kishida Ryusei: Painter of the 'Oriental Grotesque' and the Mingei Movement." The 38th International Research Symposium: Questioning Oriental Aesthetics and Thinking: Conflicting Visions of "Asia" under the Colonial Empires. Ed. Inaga Shigemi. Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2011. 185-96.

Ruan Yuan (Wong, Aida Yuen) and Pu Leeann trans.. "Jindai Riben shufa gexin: lun Liuchaopai ji Zhongcun Buzhe de Zhongguoshi beixuefeng” (Reforming Calligraphy in Modern Japan: The Six Dynasties School and Nakamura Fusetsu’s Chinese-influenced “Stele” Style)." Tsing-hua hsueh-pao (Tsing-hua Journal of Chinese Studies) September. (2010): 485-511 (in Chinese).

Wong, Aida Yuen, Iriye Akira and Pierre-Yves Saunier. "Zen Aesthetics." Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History. 2009.

Wong, Aida Yuen. "What is a `Masterpiece? Historiographical Anxieties and Classifications of Chinese Painting in the Modern Period." Writing Modern Chinese Art: Historiographical Explorations. Ed. Josh Yiu. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009

Wong, Aida Yuen. "A Chinese Seal Carver in Japan: Qian Shoutie and the Literati World of Hashimoto Kansetsu." Turmoil, Representation and Trends: Modern Chinese Painting, 1796-1949. Taipei: Chang Foundation, 2008

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Kawachi Kunpei: Calligrapher, Teacher, Painter." Brush and Ink: Kawachi Kunpei, exhibition catalogue, University of Puget Sound. Tokyo:, 2008

Wong, Aida Yuen. Tang Dynasty Poem (calligraphy). 2008. Kawachi Kunpei avec Ses Élèves, Galerie Satellite, Paris Exhibition.

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Landscapes by Nandlal Bose (1882-1966): Japanism and Populism in Modern India." Shadows of the Past: Of Okakura Tenshin and Pan-Asianism. Ed. Brij Tankha. Calcutta: Sampark, 2007. 107-124.

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Naito Konan's History of Chinese Painting." Crossing the Yellow Sea: Sino-Japanese Cultural Contacts, 1600-1950. Ed. Joshua Fogel. Connecticut: EastBridge, 2007

Wong, Aida Yuen. Parting the Mists: Discovering Japan and the Rise of National-Style Painting in Modern China. University of Hawai'i Press, 2006.

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Okakura Kakuzo: Aesthetic of Pan-Asianism." Sources of Japanese Tradition. 2 ed. vol. II (1600-2000) Ed. Wm. Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Donald Keene. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Three Films about Food by Fruit Chan: Allegories of Hong Kong-China Relations after 1997." Asian Cinema Winter/Fall. (2005): 229-241.

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Dunhuangology as Nationalist Apparatus: The Kyoto School of Oriental Studies and its Connection with Modern Chinese Historiography." Japanese Cultural Nationalism: At Home and in the Asia Pacific. Ed. Roy Starrs. Kent: Global Oriental, 2004

Wong, Aida Yuen. Timeline China 1800-1900; 1900-2000. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Vestiges of Time/Elemental Spring: Zhang Jian-Jun and Barbara Edelstein in Guangdong." Yishu: Contemporary Art 2. 1 (Spring/March) (2003): 95-97.

Ruan Yuan (Wong, Aida Yuen). "Dongyang, minzuzhuyi he Dazheng minzhu: Neiteng Hunan de Zhongguo meishu shi (The East, Nationalism, and Taishō Democracy: Naitō Konan’s History of Chinese Painting)." Meishuguan May (2002): 92-100 (in Chinese).

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Review of Maxwell K. Hearn and Judith G. Smith, eds. Chinese Art: Modern Expressions." CAA.Reviews October (2002): <http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/hearn.html>.

Ruan Yuan (Wong, Aida Yuen). "Ershi shijichu wenrenhua de xinsheng: dongfang yishu yu xiandaixing kua wenhua de xushi (A New Life for Literati Painting in the Early Twentieth Century: Eastern Art and Modernity, a Transnational Narrative)." Sixiang (Thinking) 8 (2001): 92-120 (in Chinese).

Wong, Aida Yuen, Tom and Sara Pendergast, eds.. "Cai Guoqiang." Contemporary Artists. 5 ed. 2 vols. 2001.

Wong, Aida Yuen. "The Ellsworth Collection in the Metropolitan Museum: Premier American Collection of Modern Chinese Painting." Oriental Art 47. 3 (June) (2001): 79-82.

Wong, Aida-Yuen. "A New Life for Literati Painting in the Twentieth Century: Eastern Art and Modernity, A Transcultural Narrative?." Artibus Asiae 60. 2 (2000): 297-326.

Wong, Aida Yuen. "The East, Nationalism, and Taishō Democracy: Naitō Konan’s History of Chinese Painting." Sino-Japanese Studies 11. 2 (1999): 3-23.

Wong, Aida Yuen. "Review of Words and Images: Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting by Wen Fong and Alfreda Murck." RACAR vol. 17, no. 2 1992: 193-194.