About the Tang Center

Cheng-hua Wang, a specialist in Chinese painting and visual culture, joined the department in 2016 as associate professor. She was previously Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei. She earned her B.A. (1985) in history and M.A. (1989) in Chinese art history both from National Taiwan University. She received her Ph.D. in Chinese art history from Yale University (1998).

Wang has published widely in both Chinese and English. Her publications in Chinese are collected in the volume titled Art, Power, and Consumption: One Perspective on the History of Chinese Art (2011). Her English-language publications appear in the journals The Art Bulletin, Artibus Asiae, Orientations, and Nan Nü: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China. She has twice participated in field-wide discussions on art history published in The Art Bulletin (2007 and 2014), addressing critical issues and trends that cut across international boundaries. She has also contributed to a number of edited volumes including Reinventing the Past: Antiquarianism in East Asian Art and Visual Culture; The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art; A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture; Face to Face: The Transcendence of the Arts in China and Beyond; and The Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture.