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Jeehee Hong
Academic title(s):
Associate Professor
Gretta Chambers Chair in East Asian Art History
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Department:
East Asian Studies
Office:
W-245
Biography:
Jeehee Hong is a specialist in听the ritual art and visual cultures of middle-period China (ninth to fourteenth century CE). Her first book,听Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000鈥�1400听(University of Hawai鈥榠 Press, 2016), explores complex intersections of the visual, mortuary, and everyday worlds, and demonstrates a new phase in the conception of the netherworld and the practice of ancestral worship in China at the beginning of the second millennium.听She is currently working on three main topics; the first project engages the ontological understanding of the face as a field of negotiations among social, religious, visual conventions in the visual arts of middle-period China; the second investigates changing epistemology of sense perceptions in the visual field from early to middle period; the third is a collaborative effort to probe the boundaries and locality听of visual cultures in medieval and middle-period China. Her research questions bring together various mediums and formal categories of art, often inspired by cross-cultural phenomena in the visual world.
Area(s):
China
Research areas:
Chinese Art
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Areas of interest:
Research Interests:听Middle-period (9th-14th centuries) Chinese art, especially ritual art and visual culture; social location of the visual; materiality, intermediality, and agency in art; affect and emotion in art; dimensions of "the real" in visual culture.
Group:
Associate Professor