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 Recent Faculty Publications

Books

1.  Ordinary Images. University of Chicago Press, (2002).
2.  A Freer Stela Reconsidered. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper, (2002).

Articles Published

1. "Collecting Chinese Sculpture: Paris, New York, Boston." Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Edited by Alan Chong and Noriko Murai.  (2009): 432-442.
2. "China, The Buddha, and Modern Aestheticism." Re-Imagining Asia: A Thousand Years of Separation. Edited by Shaheen Merali.  (2008): 124-133.
3. "From Stone to Sculpture: The Alchemy of the Modern." Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University  (2008): 7–16.
4. "To Avoid the Inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode"." Discrepant Abstraction. Edited by Kobena Mercer.  (2006): 52-73.
5. "Xu Bing de zhenshi de yishu 徐冰的真实的艺术 (The Genuine Art of Xu Bing)." Xu Bing -- Yancao jihua 徐冰 -- 烟草计划 (Xu Bing: Tobacco Project). Edited by Wu Hong 巫鸿.  (2006): 106–114.
6. "Why Asia Now? Contemporary Asian Art and the Politics of Multiculturalism." Shades of Black: Assembling the 80s, A transatlantic dialogue on Afro-Asian arts in post-war Britain. Edited by David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce.  (2005): 109-114.
7. "Provenance, Patronage, and Desire: Northern Wei Sculpture from Shaanxi Province." Ars Orientalis  vol. 31 (2001): 1–30.
8. "Tobacco Art: Xu Bing's Tobacco Project." Duke University Libraries  vol. 14 no. 1 (Fall, 2000): 3–7.
9. "Bei Liang shita yu Mogao ku zaoqi san ku de niandai wenti (Northern Liang stone pillars and the dating of the earliest Mogao caves." Dunhuang xue guoji yantaohui wenji , Shiku kaogu juan (Collected works of the 1994 International Conference on Dunhuang studies, Cave temple archaeology volume). Edited by Dunhuang yanjiuyuan (Dunhuang research academy).  (2000): 159–65. ((translated into Chinese by Tai Jianqun))
10. "Nanbokucho no dokyo to zokei (Daoist sculpture of the Northern-Southern Dynasties period)." Sekai bijutsu daizenshu, Toyo hen (New History of World Art: Asia)  vol. 3 (2000): 362–68. (translated into Japanese by Seriu Haruna)
11. "Shaanxi sheng de Beiwei diaoke: Laiyuan, zanzhu, yuanwang (Northern Wei Sculpture from Shaanxi Province: Provenance, Patronage, Desire)." Between Han and Tang: Religious Art and Archaeology in a Transformative Period. Edited by Wu Hung.  (2000): 461–88. (translated into Chinese by Yuan Hong)
12. "Reading the Sky." Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness. Edited by Wen-hsin Yeh.  (2000): 53–79.
13. "No Questions, No Answers: China and A Book from the Sky." Modern Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field. Edited by Rey Chow.  (2000): 227–50.
14. "Chugoku o miseru (Exhibiting China)." The Present, and the Discipline of Art History in Japan. Edited by Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties.  (1999): 192–206. ((translated into Japanese by Okada Ken))
15. "Inside the Wonder House: Buddhist Art and the West." Curators of the Buddha. Edited by Donald Lopez.  (1995).

Book Reviews

1. "Review of Ning Qiang, Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family." Journal of Asian Studies  vol. 64 no. 2 (2005): 454-56.
2. "Review of Marsha Weidner, ed., Cultural Intersections in Late Imperial Chinese Buddhism." Journal of Asian Studies  vol. 61 no. 2 (May, 2002): 715-16.
3. "Review essay of Lukas Nickel, ed., Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries." Aribus Asiae  vol. 62 no. 2 (2002): 293–99.
4. "Review of Stephen Little with Shawn Eichman, Taoism and the Arts of China." Journal of Chinese Religions  vol. 29 (2001): 332-34.