Final Paper - SSI2-157 | Chinese Painting in the West - Collins Memorial Library at University of Puget Sound

Final Paper Assignment

The final paper is to exhibit your understanding and experience of some important aspects of Chinese painting in the West. You are free to choose your own topic, something that intrigues you or something you really like to work on this semester. Five themes, namely, the collection, the market, the exhibition, the teaching, and the research of Chinese painting in the West, are lectured, read, reported and discussed in the first two sections of the seminar. You are encouraged to discuss your ideas with instructor both before you start and during your work in progress. See the assignment description on Canvas for full details.

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Tan, Chang. 2012. "Art for/of the Masses." Third Text 26, no. 2: 177-194.

Art Related Databases from Ebsco

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Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database containing full text journal, magazine & newspaper articles, many from peer-reviewed titles. This scholarly collection covers information in nearly every area of academic study.
Art Full Text
Offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications, including coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
Art Index Retrospective
Citations to English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Covers the years 1929 to 1984.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations on all aspects of world history from 1450 to the present. Does not include United States and Canadian history, which is covered in America: History and Life.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Contains records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

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Scholarly Journals in Print Only

Yishu: Journal of contemporary Chinese art.
The first English language journal to focus on Chinese contemporary art and culture. Each bi-monthly issue features scholarly essays on topical issues, interviews with artists and curators, conference proceedings, and critical commentary on exhibitions and books.

Scholarly Journals with Digital Access

Archives of Asian Art
Since its establishment in 1945, Archives of Asian Art has been devoted to publishing new scholarship on the art and architecture of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. Articles discuss premodern and contemporary visual arts, archaeology, architecture, and the history of collecting.
Chinese Review International
China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies aims to present informative, insightful, and critical English-language reviews of innovative and relevant Chinese Studies-related books from within and outside of China.
Art Bulletin
The Art Bulletin publishes leading scholarship in the English language in all aspects of art history as practiced in the academy, museums, and other institutions. From its founding in 1913, the journal has published, through rigorous peer review, scholarly articles and critical reviews of the highest quality in all areas and periods of the history of art.
Journal of Asian Studies
Published for the Association for Asian Studies
The Journal of Asian Studies (JAS) has played a defining role in the field of Asian studies for over 75 years. JAS publishes the very best empirical and multidisciplinary work on Asia, spanning the arts, history, literature, the social sciences, and cultural studies.
Art History: Journal of the Association for Art History
Art History is an international, refereed journal that promotes world-class art-historical scholarship from across the globe. It publishes essays and critical reviews that foreground methodological self-reflexivity and highlights specific areas of concern and interest to the field through its special issue programme.
Artibus Asiae
Artibus Asiae is a semi-annual publication of original scholarly articles, research notes, and book reviews devoted to the history of art and archaeology of Asia.