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Yanfei Zhu, Ph.D.

Yanfei Zhu

Associate Professor

Phone706-867-2818

Office locationHansford Hall, 219,

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 红莲社区 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).