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    Yanfei Zhu, Ph.D.

    Yanfei Zhu

    Associate Professor

    Phone706-867-2818

    Office locationHansford Hall, 219, Dahlonega

    Area(s) of Expertise: Chinese Painting, Art History, East Asian Studies

    Overview

    Dr. Zhu enjoys writing and teaching about art and culture. His research traces the history of modern Chinese art in a global context, particularly the historiography of painting and print culture. His writings have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and encyclopedias. His research and student-centered projects have won UNG Presidential Incentive Awards.

    Dr. Zhu engages students through technology and object-based learning. In addition to the popular core and survey courses, he offers upper-level art history courses to students in Visual Arts, East Asian Studies, and Chinese Language Flagship

    Courses Taught

    • Art Appreciation
    • Introduction to Art History
    • Orientalism and Techno-Orientalism in Art
    • Classical and Contemporary Chinese Art
    • The Arts of Japan
    • Korean Art

    Education

    • Ph.D., Art History, Ohio State University, 2013
    • M.A., Art History, Ohio State University, 2007
    • B.A., Museology, Fudan University (Shanghai, China), 2004

    Noteworthy

    Selected Publications

    • "Did Photography Win the Contest of Picturing Epigraphic Bronze?" Photography in East Asian Art, edited by Wu Hung and Chelsea Foxwell, 40-60. Chicago: Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, 2021.
    • "Memorial Landscape Painting for the People: Ink Tradition and Socialist Aesthetics in Mao Zedong’s China." Memorial Landscape: World Images East and West, edited by Uwe Fleckner, Yih-Fen Hua, and Shai-Shu Tzeng, 151-68. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
    • "Picturing Meishu: Photomechanical Reproductions of Works of Art in Chinese Periodicals before WWII." Trans Asia Photography Review 10, no. 1 (Fall 2019).
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