Yang Wang

Yang Wang is assistant professor of art history at the University of Colorado Denver. Her ongoing book project, Provincializing National Art in Maoist China: The Chang’an School of Ink Painting, 1942–1976, examines the intersection of regionalism, neotraditionalism, Cold War politics, and landscape painting in the early People’s Republic of China.

Contributions

South Asia | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

A Chinese Artist in Delhi: Shi Lu and the Art of Diplomacy

Shi Lu’s 1955 trip to India to oversee the design of the Chinese Pavilion at the Indian Industries Fair and his 1956 trip to Egypt for the Afro-Asian Art Conference offer a lens for understanding the PRC’s outreach and artistic diplomacy in the Cold War era.