Calendar of Events

Tang Center events are free and open to the public, but advance registration is recommended for some events, where noted. Reservations will be accepted in the order they are received. Register for events here.
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Spouted Wajima lacquer ware
Tang Center Lecture Series
November 7, 2022
Christine Guth
Head, Asian Specialism, Royal College of Art / Victoria and Albert Museum History of Design Program (emerita)
Marketing Meibutsu
4 30 pm
McCosh 50
Cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum
Christine Guth
Eggplant shaped tea caddy named Tsukumo
Tang Center Lecture Series
November 2, 2022
Christine Guth
Head, Asian Specialism, Royal College of Art / Victoria and Albert Museum History of Design Program (emerita)
Of Meibutsu and Masterpieces
4 30 pm
McCosh 50
Cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum
Christine Guth
WORKSHOP
Summer 2022
Interconnectivity in East Asian Art

Organized by Mengge Cao, Gina Choi, and Yutong Li

 

View of the Mogao Cliff in 1943–44
Symposium
April 22–23, 2022
Connecting Dunhuang

Sites, Art, and Ideas along the Silk Road(s)

Mogao Cave 17
Lecture
April 22, 2022
Valerie Hansen
Yale University
Cave 17 at Dunhuang, or Stein’s Library Cave: Reconstructing Silk Road Society
4 30 pm
McCosh 50
Cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum, the Department of Art and Archaeology, the East Asian Studies Program, and the Buddhist Studies Workshop
Artwork by: Kitagawa Utamaro . Artwork title: Untitled (Kitchen Scene)
Lecture
October 28, 2021
Chelsea Foxwell
University of Chicago
Artful (Re)working: Pictures of Labor in Eighteenth-Century Japan
4 30 pm
Virtual
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Mogao Cave 158. Reclining Buddha, Parinirvāṇa scene. West wall.
Panel Discussion
May 26, 2021
Visualizing Dunhuang Book Launch
Album leaf by Shen Zhou
Lecture
April 14, 2021
Lihong Liu
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Shen Zhou's (1427–1509) Paintings from Life
4 30 pm
Virtual
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Page from Xuande yiqi tupu
Lecture
March 31, 2021
Bruce Rusk
University of British Columbia
Art Work: Classifying Artifacts as Official Business in Late Imperial China
4 30 pm
Virtual
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Detail of Woodblock printed map
Lecture
November 11, 2020
Hui-shu Lee
University of California, Los Angeles
Picturing West Lake: The Poetics and Representation of an Iconic Place
4 30 pm
Virtual
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Artwork by: Su Shi. Artwork title: Old Trees, Rock, and Bamboo
Lecture
September 23, 2020
Peter Sturman
University of California, Santa Barbara
Inscriptional Practices of the Northern Song Literati
4 30 pm
Virtual
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program and the Tang Center for East Aisan Art
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Tray with Abundant Grain and Vegetable Design and Inscription reading “People's Communes are Good” (人民公社好 )
Lecture
February 6, 2020
Alfreda Murck
Columbia University
Turnips, Peppers, and Mangoes: Food Symbolism in the People's Republic of China
5 00 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Organized by the Tang Center for East Asian Art and the Princeton University Art Museum. Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program.
Artwork by: Unknown . Artwork title: Amorous Meeting in an Interior
Tang Center Lecture Series
November 7, 2019
Jan Stuart
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Auspicious Elegance and Erudition on Display
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Organized by the Tang Center for East Asian Art and cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Jan Stuart
Artwork by: Unknown . Artwork title: New Year's Eve
Tang Center Lecture Series
November 5, 2019
Jan Stuart
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Decorating for Seasons and Status
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Organized by the Tang Center for East Asian Art and cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Jan Stuart
Preparing for an Outdoor Banquet
Panel Discussion
October 19, 2019
In Good Taste

Food and Feasting in Chinese Art

Artwork by: Unknown . Artwork title: White Lotuses
WORKSHOP
Summer 2019
New Approaches to Transregional Art History

2019 Princeton–Gakushuin Inter-University Graduate Student Workshop

Organized by Caitlin Karyadi

Portrait of Murasaki Shikibu
Lecture
April 16, 2019
Melissa McCormick
Harvard University
Illuminating Genji: A Lecture on The Tale of Genji Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Artwork by: Wang Hong . Artwork title: Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
WORKSHOP
Spring 2019
Questions on the Concept of Landscape in Chinese Art

Organized by Cheng-hua Wang and Dora C. Y. Ching

Artwork by: . Artwork title: Male portraits from Baishou lianpu, Collection of Faces of One-Hundred Elderly
Lecture
March 27, 2019
Klaas Ruitenbeek
Berlin Museum of Asian Art
Albums of Ordinary Faces: Small-size Portraits from Painters' Studios in Late Imperial China
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Artwork by: Tachihara Kyōsho . Artwork title: Poet Painting
Panel Discussion
November 8, 2018
Place Making in the Arts

Japan and Beyond

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