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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. "China, The Buddha, and Modern Aestheticism." Re-Imagining Asia: A Thousand Years of Separation. Edited by Shaheen Merali.  (2008): 124-133.
2. "From Stone to Sculpture: The Alchemy of the Modern." Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University  (2008): 7–16.
3. "To Avoid the Inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode"." Discrepant Abstraction. Edited by Kobena Mercer.  (2006): 52-73.
4. "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.
5. "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.
6. "Provenance, Patronage, and Desire: Northern Wei Sculpture from Shaanxi Province." Ars Orientalis  vol. 31 (2001): 1–30.
7. "Tobacco Art: Xu Bing's Tobacco Project." Duke University Libraries  vol. 14 no. 1 (Fall, 2000): 3–7.
8. "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))
9. "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)
10. "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)
11. "Reading the Sky." Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness. Edited by Wen-hsin Yeh.  (2000): 53–79.
12. "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.
13. "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))
14. "Inside the Wonder House: Buddhist Art and the West." Curators of the Buddha. Edited by Donald Lopez.  (1995).

Articles Submitted

1. "Chinese Buddhist Sculpture in the Native Tradition." Asian History  (2006).

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.