Yizhou WANG
Part-time Lecturer
PhD, East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University
WANG Yizhou received her Ph.D. in East Asian art history from Heidelberg University. She has worked as Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University since 2022. Before her doctoral study, she studied Japanese and Korean art history at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She received M.Litt. in Arts of China from the University of Glasgow. In 2022, she was a research fellow of the BMBF-funded joint project “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China” at the Joint Centre for Advanced Studies, Germany; and she was also a virtual faculty resident of Plant Humanities Initiative at Dumbarton Oaks, trustees for Harvard University. She was a visiting research associate at Kyoto University and then the University of Tokyo in 2017 and 2018. She worked for two exhibition projects at the Calligraphy and Painting Department, The Palace Museum, Beijing in 2014. She has published peer-viewed articles in Ming Qing Studies, Research on Women in Modern Chinese History, Chung Cheng Chinese Studies and edited volumes since 2014.
Research interests:
- History of Chinese Paintings
- Gender Studies, Women Artists, Courtesan Culture
- Sino-Japanese and Sino-Korean Artistic Exchanges
- Early Chinese and Korean Photography on/by Women
- Plant Humanities
Representative Publications
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
| 2023 | Wang, Yizhou. “When Camera Encountered ‘Chosŏn Beauties’: Kisaeng Photographs, Postcards, and Tourism from the 1880s to Colonial-Period Korea”. In Cultural Exchanges between Korea and the West: Artifacts and Intangible Heritage, edited by Jong-Chol An and Ariane Perrin, pp. 169-192. Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Press). (Peer-reviewed) http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-717-3/008 |
| 2022 | Wang, Yizhou. “Portraiture as Fiction and Metaphors: The Debut and Apex of Courtesan Portraits in Imperial China.” In On Portraiture. Theory, Practice and Fiction. From Francisco de Holanda to Susan Sontag, pp. 215-230. Edited by the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal. (Open Access) (Peer-reviewed) |
| 2022 | Wang, Yizhou. “Ten Categories for Beautiful Women in the Ming-Qing-Period: A Trans-Media Study of Porcelain held in the Porzellansammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden,” in Fraser, Sarah, Wakita, Mio und Wang, Lianming (eds.): Women Cross Media: East Asian Photography, Prints, and Porcelain from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, pp. 211–224. Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net-ART-Books. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.995.c13787 |
| 2021 | Wang, Yizhou. “Meiren yidong cong jiangnan dao jianghu: shouye tanyou dui zhongguo shinütu de chuanyi moxie” 美人移動，從江南到江戶：狩野探幽對中國仕女圖的傳移模寫 (Beauties Moving from Jiangnan to Edo: Kanō Tan’yū’s Visual Transmission of Chinese Female-Figure Paintings). In Chung Cheng Chinese Studies 中正漢學研究 37: pp. 73-114. National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. (Taiwan Humanities Citation Index, THCI Core) (Peer-reviewed) |
| 2019 | Wang, Yizhou. “Motifs Travelled with Intentions: Mapping Tang China and the World through Pictorial Screens in Nara Period Japan (710-794).” In China and the World—the World and China—A Transcultural Perspective, Volume 1: The World of Pre-modern China, edited by Joachim Gentz, pp.171-199. Gossenberg: OSTASIEN Verlag. |
| 2018 | Wang, Yizhou. “從硯台看清初工匠文人—評介The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China”[Review: The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in the Early Qing China by Dorothy Ko]. In Research on Women in Modern Chinese History近代中國婦女史研究32: pp. 197-211. Taipei: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. (Taiwan Humanities Citation Index, THCI Core) (Peer-reviewed) |
| 2015 | Wang, Yizhou and Wang Zhongxu. “Xianglong fuhu jin shentong: gugong bowuyuan cang luohan hua tezhan shujie”降龍伏虎盡神通：故宮博物院藏羅漢畫特展述介 (Prowess in Taming Dragon and Tiger: The Arhat Paintings in the Palace Museum Collection). In Forbidden City Journal紫禁城 1 (2015): pp. 24-29. Edited by the Palace Museum Beijing. Beijing: Forbidden City Press. |
| 2014 | Wang, Yizhou. “The Origin, Transformation, and Representation of the Double Lotus.” In Ming Qing Studies 2014: pp.205-256. Rome: Sapienza University of Rome. (Peer-reviewed) |
Courses Offered
| CHES5150 | Chinese Painting: Aesthetics and History |