QIANSHEN BAI

725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 301A
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Telephone: (617) 353-1460
Fax: (617) 353-3243
E-mail: qbai@bu.edu

curriculum vitae

Associate Professor; Asian/Chinese Art. B.A., Peking University; M.A. Peking University; Rutgers University; Yale University; M. Phil. Yale University; Ph.D. Yale University.

Associate Professor Qianshen Bai joined the faculty of Boston University in 1997. Having graduated from Beijing University with a B.A. in political science, Professor Bai came to the United States to pursue graduate studies in comparative politics at Rutgers University in 1986 where he received a M.A. Later he went to Yale University to study art history and obtained his Ph.D. in 1996. An art historian who also teaches studio art, Professor Bai is a renowned calligrapher and seal carver and has won a First Prize in the National Calligraphy Competition for University and College Students in China in 1982 and has participated in various international exhibitions of Chinese calligraphy. His research, which has won the support of a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and the Humanities, covers Chinese calligraphy, painting and seal carving. Professor Bai has published broadly on these subjects in refereed journals and edited volumes in both English and Chinese. Since joining the faculty of Boston University, he has taught Arts of Asia; Arts of China; Seminar on Chinese Art and Culture in the Twentieth Century; Colloquium in Chinese Art; and Seminar on Theory and Practice of Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy, a course combining the study of history, theory of East Asian calligraphy and its hands-on performance which has attracted a considerable number of students (including graduate students) from the School of Fine Arts. Professor Bai has worked closely with Professor Emerita Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis to create the Master's Program in Asian Art with a strong component of museum studies, a program that aims at producing Asian art professionals for museums and other similar institutions. Professor Bai has raised funds from the Lucy Foundation (sponsored by alumna Diane Schaefer) and, with Professor Emerita ten Grotenhuis, a large grant from the Luce Foundation for the support of graduate students pursuing the study of Asian art.