Constructing and Perpetuating an Identity in a Social and Cultural Network:
Painting of the Literati in Fourteenth Century China
Christina Yu
Ph.D.Candidate, University of Chicago
Friday, May 22, 2009, 4:30-6:30 PM
CWAC 152
Abstract
This presentation will include two parts. First it will introduce my dissertation, which focuses on paintings created and circulated in the literati community active in fourteenth century China and tries to demonstrate the importance of painting in scholars’ collective effort to construct and perpetuate their social and cultural identity. The latter half will present the second chapter entitled “gifts: recipients & dedicatory paintings.” This chapter analyzes the phenomenon that paintings dedicated to a specific recipient increased dramatically, many with the recipient’s name directly written on the painting surface.
