Lanying Tseng
Professor Tseng received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2001, and joined the Yale faculty in 2003. She has published a number of articles concerned with diverse cultural issues in Chinese art, such as history and memory, visual replication and political persuasion, pictorial representation and historical writing, and the interchangeability of the self and the other. She is currently at work on a book tentatively entitled Picturing Heaven: Visibility and Visuality in Early China.


Publications:

In Scholarly Volumes:

"Visual Replication and Political Persuasion: The Celestial Image in Yuan Yi's (486-526) Tomb," in Between Han and Tang: Art and Material Culture in a Transformative Period, ed. Wu Hung (Beijing: Cultural Relics Publishing House, 2003), 377-424.

"Retrieving the Past, Inventing the Memorable: Huang Yi's (1744-1801) Visit to the Song-Luo Monuments," in Monument and Memory, Made and Unmade, eds. Robert Nelson & Margaret Olin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 37-58.

"Pictorial Representation and Historical Writing: Zhao Wangyun's (1906-1977) Visual Reports on Rural North China for L'Impartial ," in When Images Speak: Visual Representation and Cultural Mapping in Modern China [Hua zhong you hua: jindai Zhongguo de shijue biaoshu yu wenhua goutu], ed. Ko-wu Huang (Taipei: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, 2003), 63-122.

"Interchange of the Self and the Other: Wu Zuoren's (1908-1997) Visual Representation of the Northwestern Frontier," in Regions and Networks: One Thousand Years of Chinese Art [Quyu yu wangluo: jin qiannian lai Zhongguo meishushi yanjiu guoji xueshu yantaohui lunwenji], ed. Pao-chen Chen (Taipei: Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University, 2001), 669-700.

"Myth, History and Memory: The Modern Cult of the Simuwu Bronze Vessel," in Chinese Culture Centenary [Zhonghua wenhua bainian], ed. Kuang-nan Huang (Taipei: National Museum of History, 1999), 717-767.

In Journals:

"Representation and Appropriation: Rethinking the TLV Mirror in Han China," Early China, 2004.

"Divining from the Game Liubo : An Explanation of a Han Wooden Slip Excavated at Yinwan," China Archaeology and Art Digest 4, no. 4 (2002): 55-62.

"Workshops, Repertoires and Regional Visual Traditions: Traces of the Han Carved Tomb at Anqiu in Shandong," Taida Journal of Art History [Meishushi yanjiu jikan] (Taipei), 8 (2000): 33-86.

"An Explanation of the TLV Diagram for Divination from Yinwan," Wenwu (Beijing), 8 (1999): 62-65.

"Theory and Practice of Dong Qichang's (1555-1636) Calligraphy," Study of the Arts [Yishuxue] (Taipei), 6 (1991): 75-118.


Email: lillian.tseng@yale.edu