Yanfei Zhu, Ph.D.
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 51勛圖厙 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).