... as a woman artist during an age of intense social reform. [email protected] © 2022 Asia Society 2022 Republican period (1911–1949) modernist art women artists consumer culture nationalism social reform In 1935 a Shanghai art association called the Storm Society (Juelanshe 決瀾社...

.... The strong matrilocal element in Saimdang's marriage and in that of her parents suggests that, in spite of the Chosŏn government's efforts toward ideological and social reform for more than a hundred years, Koryŏ customs were still strong in the early sixteenth century, and particularly so in Saimdang's...

... painting does not reduce itself to the representation of power but contributes to Beihai’s spatial transformation and critically engages in Communist art reform...

.... 5. The Enlightenment period of Korea refers to the initial period of social reforms from the 1890s to 1910, following the opening of a Korean port to the outside Notes...

... to provide court unity and a sense of order for regulating social interactions. They prepared crowns and robes befitting the emperor and for distinguishing the different grades of officials at court. 24 Due to these institutional reforms, support for Buddhist projects became less important for governing...

... nitsuite . 33. The KBS was formed in 1933 and its mandate continued through 1972, when it was reformed as The Japan Foundation, an autonomous semi-state organization. The KBS's mandate was the promotion abroad of knowledge of Japan. 34. A detailed list of participants and overview...

..., such as the drafting techniques later implemented in engineering schools during the modernizing reforms of the late nineteenth century. Huang Yi never justified his choice of this technique to his readers, or his decision to leave the fragile shuanggou boundaries unfilled. 46 By doing so he made use of a common...

... with the progressive young artist, publisher, and tastemaker Zheng Wuchang 鄭午昌 (1894–1952), a leading actor in the reform of guohua 國畫 ink painting. This study rediscovers how Zheng Wuchang contributed the painting to an inscribed handscroll, Flight of the Dragon (or, A Storm and a Marvel 風異圖), which commemorated...

...' Reform. 17 Her rise to power, her legitimacy, and her character all came under attack. Specifically, Cixi's supposed role in both the suppression of the Guangxu emperor's Hundred Days' Reform in 1898 and her tacit support of mob violence against foreigners during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 informed...

... that recently came to light that had opposed his father’s reform policy.12 In the and is published here in full for the first time, and I ninth month of the same year, Cai Tao 蔡絛 (d. 1147), identify new evidence regarding the early provenance of a noted scholar and, ironically, the son of the reformer...

...Catherine Stuer Abstract This article analyzes photographs of the city of Nanjing collected in the last years of the nineteenth century by Robert Löbbecke (1852–1910), a German military captain and engineer working in service of Chinese military reforms by leaders of the Self-Strengthening Movement...

... a major center of artistic production as late as 1800. While this essay demonstrates the importance of Bikaner's painters for the Rajput world through the 1870s, it looks more broadly at colonial-period court painting to consider why it was long excised from the art historical canon, and to help reform...

... to the Pure Land, and a woman is life from themes of social injustice and decadence to shown traversing effortlessly, borne above both bridge Buddhist subjects. The final part of the essay offers a de- and water on a pair of outspread golden hands. These tailed explanation of the niga-byakudo¯ theme...

... shijian zhong suo xiang daode” ; and G. Wu, “Huihua xingshi mei.” 9. On Republican-period art education, see Kao, “Reforms in Education” ; Zheng, Modernization of Chinese Art . 10. Before state-sponsored schools, workshops run by Jesuit missionaries, such as Shanghai's Tushanwan...

....54 Neo-Confucian reformers of the 11th and 12th cen- Southern school theory mingles social, political, and turies, who aimed to restore the usages of Confucius’s stylistic criteria in defining which painters of earlier times.50 Thus Sin Sukju’s introduction recalling Han Yu periods adhered...

..., Mukai called for the renewal of artistic energy and assumption of social responsibility that would be embodied by dealing with contemporary In July 1937, a year after Mukai had earned full member...

... and significant cludes a large number of books; we will examine how cross-cultural encounters, clashes, and appropriations in the Korean literati’s passion for books inspired distinc- the East.1 Few places avoided internal social, political, tive Korean still-life paintings with books at their center. cultural...

...- in relation to the social and cultural world. What did it tic dragons were shape-shifting creatures, and hence, mean to bring a black bear into your home? could neither be recognized nor captured.58 Thirty-eight years later, the dynastic reformer...

... painting. 5 When scholars suggest that Beijing Fengsu exhibits Western-style painting influences, they usually do so either with reference to its subject matter of social realities or by discussing Chen's exposure to Western-style painting while studying in Tokyo. The studies on Chen Shizeng's work...

... are not minor roles but protagonists. They sense. They take actions. They form a boundless universe. They spell out norms of social behavior. Stimulating immediacy, ambiguity, and thought, the written characters call into question whether the deeply entrenched distinction between diegetic writing...