HAA 289v: History of Art and Architecture 289v

Picturing Urbanism: Genre Painting in Early Modern China

Cheng-hua Wang (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei)

This course will examine the representations of urban life in cityscapes from the late 16th to the early 19th centuries. We will also look at the political and socio-cultural contexts in which these scrolls and prints were produced and consumed.