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University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Hsu, Ginger C

Associate Professor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

History of Art


Biography

Ginger Hsü is a historian of later Chinese art and culture. She publishes primarily in the area of Chinese painting. Some of her publications are: "Anhui Merchant Culture and Patronage" in James Cahill (ed.); Shadows of Mt. Huang (1981); Merchant Patronage of the Eighteen Century Yangchow Painting (1989); Zheng Xie's Price List: Paintings as a Source of Income in Yangzhou (1991); The Drunken Demon Queller (1996); and The Incarnations of the Blossoming Plum (1996).

Former Institution

University of Southern California

Degrees

Ph.D. History of Art 1987

University of California, Berkeley

M.A. History of Art 1978

University of California, Berkeley

M.A. History 1976

National Taiwan University

Awards

Center for Ideas and Society Resident Fellowship, UC Riverside, 1996-1997, 2003-2004.
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange: Book Publication, 1999-2000.
Regents' Faculty Fellowship/Faculty Development Award, 1997-1998.
UC Affirmative Action Career Development Award, 1992-1993, 1994-1995.
Award for Young Scholars in Chinese Studies, China Times Cultural Foundation, New York, 1987-1988.
University Traveling Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1980-1981.
Regents Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1978-1980.
Special Award for Outstanding Young Scholars by National Education Administration of ROC, 1975-1976.
Dr. Chiang Meng-Ling's Fellowship for History Studies, National Taiwan University, 1973-1975.


Research Area

Later Chinese painting with special interest in such topics as: production and exchange of artwork, literati and popular culture, regions and networks in late imperial China.

Publications

BOOK:

A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow, Stanford University Press, 2001.

ARTICLES:

In Press: "Painting, Enlightenment, and Economics: Chin Nung and his Buddhist Paintings," Images in Exchange: Cultural Transactions in Chinese Pictorial Arts, Richard Vinograd, ed. University of California Press, Berkeley.

"He Shan's (1941-) Mural Works — An Interview," Contemporary Chinese Painter Series: He Shan. Beijing: People's Arts Publishing House, 2006.

"Demise of a Hero: Pictorial Presentation of Chung K'uei since the eighteenth Century," The National Palace Museum Research Quarterly, 23:2 (Winter 2005), 129-159, 206.

"Anhui Artists in Yangchou: A Case Study of Region and Network in Chinese Painting," Proceedings of the International Conference on "Region and Network: the Study of Chinese Art from the Last Millennium." Taipei: National Taiwan University, 2001, 403-427.

"Incarnations of the Blossoming Plum." Ars Orientalis XXVI (1996), 23-45.

"The Drunken Demon Queller: Chung K'uei in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Painting." Taida Journal of Art History, No.3 (1996), 141-175.

"Limited Images with Limitless Thoughts: Louise Kuo's A Person from Taipei in L.A.," in The Arts of Louise Kuo. Huntington Beach, California, 1996, n.p.

"Guan Xining's Zhong Kui with an Attendant Holding a Fan," in New Interpretations of Ming and Qing Paintings, Shanghai, 1994, 71-72.

"Min Zhen's Zhong Kui and Bat," in New Interpretations of Ming and Qing Paintings, Shanghai, 1994, 72.

"Ren Xun's Zhong Kui Sitting by a Desk," in New Interpretations of Ming and Qing Paintings, Shanghai, 1994, 83-86.

"Zheng Xie's Price List: Painting as a Source of Income in Yangzhou." In Chinese Painting under the Qianlong Emperor: The Symposium Papers in Two Volumes. Phoebus 6/2 (1991): 261-271, 358-359.

"Scholar, Artist, and Art Dealer: Jin Nong in Yangzhou." In The Eccentric Painters of Yangzhou, Vito Giacalone ed. (New York: China Institute in America, 1990), 23-27.

"Approaches to Eighteenth Century Chinese Painting: A Review of Current Research," in Proceedings of the Symposium on the Studies of Chinese History in the Twentieth Century, Taipei: National Taiwan University, 1992, 341-352.

"Merchant Patronage of the Eighteenth Century Yangchow Painting." In Artists and Patrons: Some Economic and Social Aspects of Chinese Painting, Chu-tsing Li, ed. (Kansas/Seattle: University of Kansas/The Nelson -Atkins Museum of Art/University of Washington, 1989), 215-221.

"Chu-chieh: A Problematic Painter in the Sixteenth Century." Parts I & II, The National Palace Museum Bulletin, 19/6 (1985): 1-13, 20/1 (1985): 1-13.

"Anhui Merchant Culture and Patronage." In Shadows of Mt. Huang: Chinese Painting and Printing of the Anhui School, James Cahill, ed. (Berkeley: University Art
Museum, 1981) (Co-author with Sandi Chin) 19-24.

"Hongren." In Shadows of Mt. Huang: Chinese Painting and Printing of the Anhui School, James Cahill, ed. (Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1981), 76-84.

"An Introduction to the Painting of the Anhui School through the Shadows of Mt. Huang Exhibition at Berkeley," in Hsiung Shih Mei-shu, August 1981, 71-85.

"An Interpretation of Literati Painting Theory in the Ming Dynasty; From Tung Ch'i-ch'ang's Point of View," in Chinese Cultural Renaissance Journal, Vol. 2 (1975), 29-40.