Art and Design in Modern China (bibliography in progress)

Andrews, Julia F. and Kuiyi Shen, eds. 1998. A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Andrews, Julia F., and Kuiyi Shen. 2006. “The Japanese Impact on the Republican Art World: The Construction of Chinese Art History as a Modern Field.” Twentieth-Century China 32, no. 1 (November 1): 4–35. https://doi.org/10.1179/152153806794774632.

Andrews, Julia F., and Kuiyi Shen. 2012. The Art of Modern China. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Andrews, Julia. 1994. Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Barmé, Geremie R. 2002. An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898–1975). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bevan, Paul. 2020. “Intoxicating Shanghai"—an Urban Montage : Art and Literature in Pictorial Magazines during Shanghai’s Jazz Age.” China Studies: Volume 41. Brill. https://search-ebscohost-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat03710a&AN=alb.9987494&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Chau, Angie. 2023. Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters.

Ching, May-bo. 2007. “Picturing Knowledge: Chinese Brushwork Illustrations of Western Natural History in a Late Qing Periodical, 1907–1911.” Journal of Modern Chinese History 1 (1): 31–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535650701521098.

Clarke, David J. 2000. Modern Chinese Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Claypool, Lisa. 2005. “Zhang Jian and China’s First Museum.” The Journal of Asian Studies 64, no. 3 (August): 567–604.

Claypool, Lisa. 2011. “Ways of Seeing the Nation: Chinese Painting in the National Essence Journal (1905–1911) and Exhibition Culture.” positions: asia cultures critique 19, no. 1 (Spring): 52–85.

Claypool, Lisa. 2012. “Painting Manuals and Gendered Modernity in Republican-era Shanghai.” In Visualizing Beauty: Gender and Ideology in Modern East Asia, edited by Aida Yuen Wong, 23–44. Hong Kong University Press.

Claypool, Lisa. 2013. “Sites of Visual Modernity: Perceptions of Japanese Exhibitions in Late Qing China.” In The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art. Edited by Joshua Fogel, 154–80. University of California Press.

Claypool, Lisa. 2014. “Habitat Dioramas: The Animal Paintings of Liu Kuiling in Republican-era Tianjin.” Archives of Asian Art 64, no. 2 (November): 163–188.

Claypool, Lisa. 2021. “A Glance at Nanjing.” Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia. Special Issue about Nanjing, ed. Joshua Stenberg. 11, no. 1 (Winter): 75–88 essay.

Claypool, Lisa. 2022. “Hauntings: An Ink Painter and a Coal Mine in 1960s China.” Oxford Art Journal 45, no. 1 (July): 45–61.

Claypool, Lisa. 2024. Design and Science in Modern China. Routledge.

Claypool, Lisa. 2025. “Lunation: The Cold Moon and an Ink Painter in Twentieth Century China.” Archives of Asian Art75, no. 1 (April): forthcoming.

Clunas, Craig. 1989. “Chinese Art and Chinese Artists in France (1924–1925).” Arts Asiatiques 44 (1): 100–106. https://doi.org/10.3406/arasi.1989.1262

Clunas, Craig. 2017. Chinese Painting and Its Audiences. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Danzker, Jo-Anne Birnie, Ken Lum, and Shengtian Zheng. Shanghai Modern, 1919-1945. Hatje Cantz, 2004. https://search-ebscohost-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat03710a&AN=alb.4074857&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Des Forges, Alexander. 2007. Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Dirlik, Arif. 2013. “Literary Identity/Cultural Identity: Being Chinese in the Contemporary World.” MCLC Resource Center, September, u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/literary-identity/

Fong, Wen C. 2001. Between Two Cultures: Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gu, Yi. 2018. “We Love Peace: Photographic affect and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Force Soldiers in the Korean War.” Chinese Historical Review 25, no. 2 (November): 196–207. https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2018.1524431.

Gu, Yi. 2020. Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open Air Painting. Harvard University Asia Center.

Hearn, Maxwell, ed. 2001. Chinese Art, Modern Expressions. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001..

Ju Chao, and Ju Lian. 2003. Ju Chao Ju Lian huaji [Paintings of Ju Chao and Ju Lian], edited by Dongguan shi bowuguan. Guangzhou: Wenwu chubanshe.

Kao May-ching. 2000. “Gao Jianfu yu Zhongguo xiandai taoci ye” [Gao Jianfu and China’s modern porcelain industry]. In Dajiang de zuji: Gao Jianfu xiansheng dansheng yibai ershi zhounian jinian ji, edited by Huang Yongxian, 26–35. Hong Kong: Yuandong yishu jiaoliu zhongxin.

Kou Chih-yang. 2013. “Qingmo minchu tuan jiaoyude jianli yu zhuanzhe” (The Establishment and Transition of the Design Education in Early Twentieth Century China). PhD diss., Taiwan Guoli Zhongyang daxue.

Lee, Leo Ou-fan, and Jian Mao. 2006. Shanghai Mo Deng : Yi Zhong Xin Du Shi Wen Hua Zai Zhongguo, 1930-1945 = Shanghai Modern : The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945. Zeng ding ban.  : 一種新都市文化在中國, 1930-1945 = Shanghai Modern : The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945 / 梵 ; 毛尖譯. Oxford University Press (China) Ltd. https://search-ebscohost-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat03710a&AN=alb.3830866&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Li Fushun, ed. 2008. Beijing meishushi [History of Beijing’s art]. 2 vols. Beijing: Shoudu shifan daxue.

Li Weiming. 2015. Chuantong yu biange: Zhongguo jindai meishu shishi kaolun (Tradition and Reform: Studies on the History of Chinese Modern Art). Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan.

Li Youguang. 1990. Chen Zhifo yanjiu [Research on Chen Zhifo]. [Nanjing]: Jiangsu meishu chubanshe.

Li, Shuangyi. 2022. Travel, Translation and Transmedia Aesthetics: Franco-Chinese Literature and Visual Arts in a Global Age. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.

Liu, Chen. 2017. “Leonardo Unveiled by Chinese Writers: The Reception of Renaissance Art in Twentieth-Century China.” Art in Translation 9 (3): 355–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2017.1353267

Liu, Lydia H. 1995. Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900–1937. Stanford University Press.

Lu Weirong (J: Riku Iei). 2007. Chūgoku no kindai bijutsu to Nihon [China’s modern art and Japan]. Okayama: Daigaku kyōiku shuppan.

Mi, Jiayan. 2004. Self-Fashioning and Reflexive Modernity in Modern Chinese Poetry, 1919–1949. Lewiston, Mellen Press.

Pickowicz, Paul G., Kuiyi Shen, and Yingjin Zhang. 2013. “Liangyou, Popular Print Media, and Visual Culture in Republican Shanghai.” In Liangyou: Kaleidoscopic Modernity and the Shanghai Global Metropolis, 1926–1945, edited by Pickowicz, Shen, Zhang, 1–13. Leiden: Brill.

Pickowicz, Paul, Kuiyi Shen, and Yingjin Zhang, eds. 2013. Liangyou: Kaleidoscopic Modernity and the Shanghai Global Metropolis, 1926–1945. Leiden: Brill..

Ping Chen. 1999. Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics. Cambridge University Press. https://search-ebscohost-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=112452&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Qin, Ruili and Zhuo Lin. 2016. “Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai: Interaction and Communication of Chinese Modern Art.” Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, Vol. 63, 369-374. Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Management, Arts and Humanities Science. Dordrecht: Atlantis Press.

Rado, Mei Mei. 2016. “When Modernity and Nationalism Intersect: Textiles for Dress in Republican China.” Perspective: actualité en histoire de l’art (1): 180–187.

Ren, Wei. 2015. “The Writer’s Art: Tao Yuanqing and the Formation of Modern Chinese Design (1900–1930).” PhD diss., Harvard University.

Schaefer, William. 2017. Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925–1937. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Shih, Shu-mei, Chien-hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards, eds. 2013. Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader. Columbia University Press.

Shih, Shu-mei. 2001. The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937. University of California Press.

Sung, Doris. 2024. Women of Chinese Modern Art: Gender and Reforming Traditions in National and Global Spheres, 1900s–1930s. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi-org.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/10.1515/9783110798920

Szeto, Yuen Kit. 2008. “The Big in the Small: Ju Lian’s Garden of Ten Fragrances.” In Guyuan shixiang: Ju Chao Ju Lian huihua, edited by Guangzhou Yishu Bowuyuan and Xiang Gang Yishuguan, 25–29. Guangzhou: Lingnan meishu chubanshe.

Tsuruta Takeyoshi. 1997. “Ryū Nihon bijutsu gakusei: kin hyakunen rai Chūgoku kaigashi kenkyū” [Chinese art students in Japan: Research on the history of Chinese painting in the past one hundred years (Part V)]. Bijutsu kenkyu 367 (March): 29–41.

Wang, Ban. 2020. “Aesthetics, Morality, and the Modern Community: Wang Guowei, Cai Yuanpei, and Lu Xun.” Critical Inquiry 46, no. 3 (Spring): 496–514. https://doi.org/10.1086/708078

Wang, Cheng-hua. 2011. “Rediscovering Song Painting for the Nation: Artistic Discursive Practices in Early Twentieth Century China.” Artibus Asiae LXXI, no. 2 (December): 221–46.

Wang, Yiyan. 2021. Modern Art for a Modern China. Routledge.

Wong, Aida Yuen. 2000. “A New Life for Literati Painting in the Early Twentieth Century: Eastern Art and Modernity, a Transnational Narrative.” Artibus Asiae 60 (2): 297-326.

Wong, Aida Yuen. 2006. Parting the Mists: Discovering Japan and the Rise of National-Style Painting in Modern China. University of Hawaii Press.

Wong, Aida Yuen. 2016. The Other Kang Youwei: Calligrapher, Art Activist, and Aesthetic Reformer in Modern China. Brill.

Wu Haoran, ed. 2016. Minguo manhua: Shanghai Poke [Republican-era cartoons: Shanghai Puck]. Jinan: Qilu shushe.

Yiu, Josh, ed. 2009. Writing Chinese Modern Art: Historiographic Explorations. Seattle: Asian Art Museum.

Zheng, Jane. 2007. “The Shanghai Fine Arts College: Art Education and Modern Women Artists in the 1920s and 1930s.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 19 (1): 192–235. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41490975.

Zhu Wanzhang. 2003. “Ju Chao, Ju Lian huayi zonglun” [Comprehensive essay on the paintings and art of Ju Chao and Ju Lian]. In Ju Chao Ju Lian huaji, edited by Dongguan shi bowuguan, 8–39. Guangzhou: Wenwu chubanshe.

Zhu Wanzhang. 2007. Ju Chao Ju Lian yanjiu [Research on Ju Chao and Ju Lian]. Guangzhou: Lingnan chubanshe.