(photo by Jonel Jugueta)
Associate Professor of Art History
Office Room 233 / 808.956.5266 / lingley@hawaii.edu
RESEARCH AREAS - Social history of art in medieval China: Buddhism, patronage, gender, dress, ethnicity, the Silk Road
BIO
Professor Lingley’s research focuses on Buddhist votive sculpture of the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, with a particular interest in the social history of religious art. She is interested in the social significance of representation, religious practice, and identity, especially ethnic identity, in a period in which non-Chinese peoples ruled much of North China. This has led to a further interest in Chinese identity in a range of historical periods. The relationship between dress and identity, especially along the Silk Road, has given rise to a second body of research on dress and textiles in medieval China. Professor Lingley has curated several exhibitions, including one on Ming and Qing personal adornment, and one on Chinese painting and calligraphy from Honolulu collections, that focused on the work of reformers of the 19th and 20th centuries. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores the representation of identity in Northern Dynasties China by examining the relationship between tomb portraits and donor portraits from the same period. Her teaching covers the range of Chinese art history from the Neolithic to the present day, plus the art of the European Middle Ages.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Art History / University of Chicago / 2004
M.A. in Art History / University of Chicago / 1998
B.A. in Anthropology / Harvard University / 1994
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• “A Hybrid Inscription at Shuiyusi: The Buddhist Funerary Record.” In Chinese. For conference volume: What is Under the Stone: The Significance of Stone Epitaphs for the Study of East Asian Religions. Shanghai: Fudan University (forthcoming).
• “Kinship and Commemorative Practices in Early Medieval Buddhist Art.” In Wu Hung and Katherine Tsiang, eds., Refiguring East Asian Religious Art: Buddhist Devotion and Funerary Practice. Chicago: Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago; and Art Media Resources, 2018 (in press).
• 水浴寺石窟における寄進と記念 (Patronage and Memory at the Shuiyu Si Cave Temple.) In Japanese. In Hamada Tamami 濱田瑞美, ed., アジア仏教美術論集、東アジア I：後漢、三國、南北朝 (Asian Buddhist Art Anthology, East Asia vol. 1: The Later Han, the Three Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties). Tokyo: 中央公論美術出版 (Chuo Koron Bijutsu Shuppan), 2017, 539-574.
• “Silk Road Dress in a Chinese Tomb: Xu Xianxiu and sixth-century cosmopolitanism.” In The Silk Road, vol. 12, 2014.
• “Lady Yuchi in the First Person: Patronage, History, and Voice in the Guyang Cave.” Early Medieval China vol. 18 (2012).
• The Reformer’s Brush: Modernity and Traditional Media in China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Art Gallery, 2011.
• “The Patron and the Community in Eastern Wei Shanxi: the Gaomiaoshan Cave Temple Yi-society.” Asia Major vol. 23, part I, 2010.
• “Naturalizing the Exotic: On the changing meanings of ethnic dress in medieval China.” Ars Orientalis vol. 38, 2010.
• “A Brief History of Ethnic Costume in Premodern China.” In Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Art Gallery, 2008.
• Excelling the Work of Heaven: Personal Adornment from China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Art Gallery, 2007.
•“The Multivalent Donor: Zhang Yuanfei at Shuiyusi.” In Archives of Asian Art, v. 56, 2006.
• 2009 Chancellor’s Citation for Meritorious Teaching, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
• 2009 Chancellor’s Citation for Meritorious Teaching, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
COURSES TAUGHT
ART 175 (History of Global Art I)
ART 371 (Art of Medieval Europe)
ART 385 (Art and Culture of Early China)
ART 386 (Art and Culture of Later China)
ART 395 (Art-Historical Methodology)
ART 400C (Sculpture of China)
ART 486 (Traditional Chinese Painting)
ART 487 (Modern and Contemporary Art of China)
ART 688 (Topics in the Art of China)
Past topics include:
Fall 2004: Buddhist Sculpture of Medieval China
Fall 2005: Representing Ethnic Identity in Premodern China
Fall 2006: Dunhuang Art and Culture
Spring 2008: Discourses of Art in 20th-century China
Fall 2008: Tomb Sculpture and the Spaces of Funerary Art
Spring 2011: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 1840-1960
Spring 2014: Art on the Margins of the Chinese Empire
Fall 2018: Contemporary Art and the Chinese City