Dr Chia-Ling Yang
National Taiwan University (BA) University of London (PhD)
Overview
Department of the History of Art and Archaeology
Research Associate
- Name:
- Dr Chia-Ling Yang
- Email address:
- cy1@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Chinese Painting; Shanghai School Painting; Photography; Interactions between China, Japan and the West (1840–1949).
Research
Chinese Painting; The 19th and 20th Centuries Chinese Art; Shanghai School Painting; Early Photography in China; Artistic Interactions between China, Japan and the West (1840-1949)
Current Research
Dr Yang's current research includes studies of following: development and art dealing of late Qing painting in the treaty ports, Luo Zhenyu and old leftovers of the Qing in early twentieth-century, Sino-Japanese artistic exchanges, and the re-canonizing of Chinese ink painting 1894-1949.
Biography
Dr Yang researches principally on the Chinese painting, early photography and modern Chinese art and its interactions with Japan and the West. She received her first degree from the Department of Chinese Literature at the National Taiwan University and a MA from Art History at University of Warwick. She completed her PhD at the University of London (SOAS) in Art and Archaeology. She previously taught in the Department of Art History at the University of Sussex (2004- 2007). She was also a visiting scholar at the Sinica Academia in Taiwan and the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to research and teach in Art History at the University of Chicago. Dr Yang also lectured in Hong Kong and at the British Museum on Chinese Painting.
Publications
Authored Books
Yang, Chia-Ling (2007) New Wine in Old Bottles. The Art of Ren Bonian in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai. Saffron.
Yang, Chia-Ling (2001) Plant a Hope: 50 Philosophical Stories in Response to Master Xuan-Kong's Teaching. 2 vols. Taipei: Xingtiangong Cultural & Educational Foundation Press.
Edited Books
Yang, Chia-Ling and Cura, Nixi, eds. (2012) Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture. CA: University of California Press. (New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society Publication)
Book Chapters
Yang, Chia-Ling (2010) 'Deciphering Antiquity into Modernity: Art Collecting and Identity of Luo Zhenyu in Japanese-Occupied Liaoning.' In: Yang, Chia-Ling and Cura , Nixi, (eds.), Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture. University of California Press. (New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society Publication)
Yang, Chia-Ling (2009) 'The Crisis of the Real – Photography and Portraiture in Late Nineteenth Shanghai.' In: Purtle, Jennifer and Thomsen, Hans B., (eds.), Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II. Chicago: Art Media Resources, pp. 20-37.
Yang, Chia-Ling (2009) 'Interface of Art and Politics: Wou Lien-Pai and the Early Republican China.' In: Whitfield, Roderick and Yu, Hui and Yang, Chia-Ling, (eds.), Chinese Painting in Wou Lien-Pai Museum. Hong Kong: Orientations. (Forthcoming)
Yang, Chia-Ling (2008) 'Duplicity or Multiplicity: Kishida Ginko and Shanghai Intellectuals.' In: Andrews, Julia F. and Shen, Kuiyi, (eds.), Cross-Cultural Artistic Exchange in Later Chinese and Japanese History. Ohio: University of Ohio Press. (In Press)
Yang, Chia-Ling (2008) 'Painting the Vanity Dream of Shanghai – Ren Bonian and the Entertainment World.' In: Liu, Gui-Ying, (ed.), Turmoil, Representation and Trends: Modern Chinese Painting, 1796 – 1949 [世變形象流風: 中國近代繪畫]. Taipei: The Chang Foundation, pp. 153-185.
Yang, Chia-Ling (2006) 'Teetering on the Edge: Cultural strategy and the troubled aesthetic identities of modern Chinese painting at the Karada Kampo Collection.' In: "Visuality, Memory, Collection" Conference Proceedings. Taipei: National Taichung University, pp. 147-156.
Yang, Chia-Ling (2002) 'Seals of Ren Bonian.' In: Lu, Fusheng, (ed.), Ren Bonian Yanjiu [Studies on Ren Bonian]. Shanghai: Calligraphy and Painting Press, pp. 239-260.
Yang, Chia-Ling (2001) 'The Influence of the Ming and Qing Book Illustrations on Ren Bonian's Early Work (1865~1878).' In: Studies on Shanghai Painting School. Shanghai: Calligraphy and Painting Press, pp. 229-244.
Articles
Yang, Chia-Ling (2007) 'Choices and Conflicts - Artistic Responses to Foreign Stimuli in Late Qing Shanghai.' East Asia Journal, 2 (1). pp. 66-85.
Yang, Chia-Ling (2006) 'Pioneer on the Study of the Painting 'Qing-Ming Festival'. Interview with Professor Roderick Whitfield.' Forbidden City, 143 . pp. 50-55.
Yang, Chia-Ling (2003) 'Chinese Japanese Artistic Exchange and Western Art Education in Late Nineteenth-Century China.' Dian Cang (135). pp. 78-85.
Yang, Chia-Ling (2002) 'German Art History Education. Interview with Professor Lothar Ledderose, Chair of the Eastern Asian Art Institute at University of Heidelberg.' Dian Cang, 123 . pp. 48-49.
Yang, Chia-Ling (2001) 'Review of the International Conference 'Admonitions Scroll―Ideas of Etiquette, Art and Empire from Early China' at the British Museum.' Dian Cang, 107 . pp. 104-109.
Monographs
Yang, Chia-Ling and Lin, Yi-Hsin and Nicole Ter-Chuang, Chiang and Shu-Chi, Shen (2009) Chinese Contemporary Art - Market, Fairs and Cities. Project Report. (Unpublished)
Yang, Chia-Ling Teetering on the Edge: Re-Canonising Modern Chinese Ink Painting. Other. (Unpublished)
Other
Yang, Chia-Ling (2007) '"China through a Lens - Photography in China", interviewed and broadcasted on Radio86, July 2007.' FutuVision Media Ltd.
Yang, Chia-Ling (2007) '"The Shanghai School of Painting", interviewed and broadcasted on Radio86, June 2007.' FutuVision Media Ltd.
