Associate Professor
Gretta Chambers Chair in East Asian Art History
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, 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. 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.听Her research questions bring together various mediums and formal categories of art, often inspired by cross-cultural phenomena in the visual world.
Selected Publications
Book
Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000-1400听(Honolulu: University of Hawai鈥榠 Press, 2016)
Articles
鈥淟e chagrin, la pierre, et l鈥檃rgile. Images du deuil dans la Chine m茅di茅val鈥� (Tears of听Stone and Clay: The Affect of Mourning Images in Middle-Period China),听Diogenes,听vols. 254-255, no.2 (2016, published in 2018).
"Crafting Boundaries of the Unseeable World: Dialectics of Space in Bhagavat Sutra Repository,鈥澨�Art History,听vol. 40, issue 1 (2017).
鈥淯nwritten Life (and Death) of a 鈥淧harmacist鈥� in Song China: Decoding Hancheng听Tomb Murals,鈥� Cahiers d'Extr锚me-Asie, vol. 24 (2015). Co-authored听with TJ Hinrichs.
"Mechanism of Life for the Netherworld: Transformations of Mingqi in Middle-Period China,"听Journal of Chinese Religions, vol. 43, no. 2 (2015)."听(Translated into Chinese and published in听Yishushi yanjiu听(The Study of Art History) vol. 18 (2017).
鈥淐hanging Roles of the Tomb Portrait: Burial Practices and Ancestral Worship of Non-Literati Elite in North China (1000-1400),鈥� Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, vol. 44听(2014).
鈥�Exorcism from the Streets to the Tomb: An Image of the Judge and Minions in the听Xuanhua Liao Tomb No. 7,鈥� Archives of Asian Art, vol. 63, no. 1 (2013)
鈥淰irtual Theater of the Dead: Actor Figurines and Their Stage in Houma Tomb No.1,听Shanxi Province,鈥� Artibus Asiae, vol. 71, no. 1, (2011)
鈥淭heatricalizing Death and Society in The Skeletons鈥� Illusory Performance by Li 厂辞苍驳,鈥� The Art Bulletin, vol. 93, no. 1 (March 2011)
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