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Ying-Chen Peng Associate Professor Art

Degrees
PhD art history, UCLA

MA art history, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University

BA Japanese language and literature, National Taiwan University

Languages Spoken
Chinese

Japanese

Classical Chinese (reading proficiency)
Bio
Dr. Peng specializes in late imperial and modern Chinese art history with a focus on gender issues and globalization of material culture. Before joining the American University she worked at the National Palace Museum and the Academia Sinica, both in Taiwan, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a pre-doctoral research fellow and received her PhD degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2014. Her forthcoming book, titled "Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making in Art," will be published by Yale University Press in 2023. She is also conducting research on the Chinese porcelain industry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the role it played in shaping modern connoisseurship of Chinese decorative art in Europe and the United States.



Dr. Peng’s courses on Chinese and East Asian art range from Buddhist art of Asia and art and material culture of China to thematic issues on gender in modern East Asian visual culture, contemporary Chinese art and photography in East Asia.
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Teaching

Summer 2024

  • ARTH-225 Buddhist Arts of Asia

Fall 2024

  • APDS-325 Chinese Art

  • ARTH-425 Topics in East Asian Art: How Art Became Modern Japan