The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 45 (2010)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 45

"Epitome of National Disgrace: A Painting Illuminating Song-Jin Diplomatic Relations"

Liu, Shi-yee

2010

28 pages

This title is out of print.

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About the authors

Shi-yee Liu

Shi-yee Liu received her PhD from Yale University in 2003. She wrote her dissertation on the artist Chen Hongshou (1599–1652) and has published on the artist consistently since then. Focusing on traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy, she has authored an exhibition catalogue and a wide range of English and Chinese articles that examine artworks from an interdisciplinary angle. Curator of the exhibition Show and Tell: Stories in Chinese Painting (2016–17), she also participates in other exhibition projects and publishes the documentation of Chinese paintings and calligraphies on the Museum's website.

Selected publications

Liu, Shi-yee. “The World's a Stage: The Theatricality of Chen Hongshou's Figure Painting.” Ars Orientalis 35 (2008): 155–191.

———. “Qian Xuan’s Loyalist Revision of Iconic Imagery in Tao Yuanming Returning Home and Wang Xizhi Watching Geese.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 54 (2019), pp. 26-46.

———. “Qianlong pingding Hui jiang tuxiang xilie: Fa wang Luyi Shisi zhangong tu bitan he banhua de qifa” [Emperor Qianlong’s East Turkestan Campaign pictures: The inspiration from Louis XIV’s conquest-themed tapestries and prints], Palace Museum Journal 201 (01/2019), pp. 31‒58.