Asian
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.
ALICE Y. TSENG
725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 210C
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Telephone: (617) 353-1458
Fax: (617) 353-3243
E-mail: aytseng@bu.edu
curriculum vitae
Assistant professor, Japanese art and architecture; B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor Tseng joined the faculty of Boston University in fall 2004. Her specialization encompasses the art and architecture of Japan, with particular focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Specific topics of research interest are the history of institutional buildings, collections, exhibitions, and transnational and transcultural connections between Japan and Euro-America. She offers lecture courses on the arts of Asia; the arts of Japan; and modern Japanese architecture; and seminar courses on Japanese print culture; the Edo-Meiji transition; and constructs of the Japanese art canon. Professor Tseng has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art), and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute (Harvard University). She is a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the 2006-07 year, and the recipient of the 2006 Founder’s Award from the Society of Architectural Historians for her article “Styling Japan: The Case of Josiah Conder and the Museum at Ueno, Tokyo.” Her book on the Imperial Museums of Japan is forthcoming from the University of Washington Press.
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