Yanfei Zhu

Yanfei Zhu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Hansford 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).