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Papers by Aida Y Wong

In Mountain Moved, Heart Moved: The Art of Lee Chun-yi , 2024

This exhibition catalogue essay dissects the meaning in the works by and the thought processes of... more This exhibition catalogue essay dissects the meaning in the works by and the thought processes of the contemporary ink artist, Lee Chun-yi.

Garden, Orchard and Nature in Jewish and Japanese Culture, Literature and Religion. The 12th CISMOR Annual Conference on Jewish Studies.. , 2024

In this paper I study Edo Period daimyō gardens in Japan to explore the meaning through reference... more In this paper I study Edo Period daimyō gardens in Japan to explore the meaning through reference to Confucian morality and sensory meaning.

Yuan Jai Reader 袁旃讀本, vol. 1. Ed. Ren Yu 仁語, published on the occasion of the exhibition “Yuan Jai at MNAM Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2020). (Guangzhou: The Pavilion, 2021.)

A leading figure in modern/contemporary ink painting, Liu Kuo-sung (Liu Guosong) is best known fo... more A leading figure in modern/contemporary ink painting, Liu Kuo-sung (Liu Guosong) is best known for innovative techniques with tools other than the brush. He is often identified as an artist from Taiwan, but in fact his footprints and legacy span the Sinophone world, including mainland China and Hong Kong. In this article, Liu's lesser-known but critical period in Hong Kong in the 1970s to early 1990s is examined in relation to the postwar debates that led to the term guohua (national painting) being replaced by shuimohua (ink painting).

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In Mountain Moved, Heart Moved: The Art of Lee Chun-yi , 2024

This exhibition catalogue essay dissects the meaning in the works by and the thought processes of... more This exhibition catalogue essay dissects the meaning in the works by and the thought processes of the contemporary ink artist, Lee Chun-yi.

Garden, Orchard and Nature in Jewish and Japanese Culture, Literature and Religion. The 12th CISMOR Annual Conference on Jewish Studies.. , 2024

In this paper I study Edo Period daimyō gardens in Japan to explore the meaning through reference... more In this paper I study Edo Period daimyō gardens in Japan to explore the meaning through reference to Confucian morality and sensory meaning.

Yuan Jai Reader 袁旃讀本, vol. 1. Ed. Ren Yu 仁語, published on the occasion of the exhibition “Yuan Jai at MNAM Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2020). (Guangzhou: The Pavilion, 2021.)

A leading figure in modern/contemporary ink painting, Liu Kuo-sung (Liu Guosong) is best known fo... more A leading figure in modern/contemporary ink painting, Liu Kuo-sung (Liu Guosong) is best known for innovative techniques with tools other than the brush. He is often identified as an artist from Taiwan, but in fact his footprints and legacy span the Sinophone world, including mainland China and Hong Kong. In this article, Liu's lesser-known but critical period in Hong Kong in the 1970s to early 1990s is examined in relation to the postwar debates that led to the term guohua (national painting) being replaced by shuimohua (ink painting).

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패션, 근대를 만나다 [Fashion, Geundae-reul Manada]. Fashion, Encountering Modern Eras. Korean Translation of Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia, Seoul: Sapyung Academy [사회평론 아카데미 Sahoepyungron Academy], 2022

Visualizing Beauty examines the intersections between feminine ideals and changing socio-politica... more Visualizing Beauty examines the intersections between feminine ideals and changing socio-political circumstances in China, Japan, and Korea during the first half of the twentieth century. Eight essays present a broad range of visual products that informed concepts of beauty and womanhood, including fashion, interior design magazines, newspaper illustrations, and paintings of and by women. Studying "Traditional Woman" and "New Woman" as historical categories, this anthology contemplates the complex relations between feminine subjectivity and the promotion of modernity, commerce, and colonialism.

China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies

Nan Nu , 2021

A Fashionable Century: Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing is an interdisciplinary stu... more A Fashionable Century: Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing is an interdisciplinary study that draws on art history, fashion theory, dress history, anthropology, and cultural studies. This is the first book by Rachel Silberstein, a scholar of Chinese material culture specializing in fashion, gender and textile handicrafts. In order to better convey "the voices and texts of the Qing dynasty or studies by Chinese scholars" (p. xv), she makes extensive use of primary sources with expert translation. This volume is not a chronological survey like Antonia Finnane's Changing Clothes in China (2008) or a handbook of key garment types like Valery Garrett's Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present Day (2007).1 Rather, it is a polemical exploration of the relationship between fashion and ethnic identity, the impact of the market economy, regionalism, and women's agency. This book considers instances of transgression where ordinary people dressed up to impersonate high society as integral to fashion trends, imitating "dukes [by] wearing rank badge coats, dragon roundels, and jewel-topped hats" (p. 52) and splurging on ritual costumes which went counter to Confucian frugality. The age-old rules were such that attires had to fit "the season, occasion, and most of all, identity" (p. 52). But these rules appeared to be constantly flouted in the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), a time of ethnic coexistence , commercial vibrancy, and technical innovation in fashion production. The anonymity of Qing creators such as workshop staff and pattern makers presents a particular challenge to researchers, one that is compounded by the generic labeling of Chinese dress items in many museums. As Silberstein points out, there was no detailed provenance, no preface, no maker's mark, and no publisher, to verify an item's exact origins (p. 11). There were brand names and regional labels, but unlike today's fashion system which orchestrates coherent trends from season to season, product developments in the Qing dynasty proved more diffused. Silberstein further questions the fashion values expressed in formal texts that exclusively represented the viewpoints of the male literati. For a more comprehensive picture of how styles and wearers were evaluated, she not only examines gazetteers and dynastic histories, but also lesser-known, vernacular sources such as songs and "bamboo ballads" or