Aida Yuen Wong

Aida Yuen Wong is Nathan Cummings and Robert B. and Beatrice C. Mayer Professor of Fine Arts and East Asian Studies and Head of the Division of the Creative Arts at Brandeis University. She is a scholar of Asian art history who has written extensively on transcultural modernism, calligraphy history, fashion history, and modern/contemporary art in Taiwan. Among her major publications are Parting the Mists: Discovering Japan and the Rise of National-Style Painting in Modern China (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006) (Chinese Translation from Taipei: Rock Publishing, 2019), the edited volumes Visualizing Beauty: Gender and Ideology in Modern East Asia (Hong Kong University Press, 2012), the co-edited volume, Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), which deals with dress reforms in China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Korea between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Another book, The Other Kang Youwei: Calligrapher, Art Activist, and Aesthetic Reformer in Modern China (Brill, 2016), explores the art theory and legacy of the late Qing-early Republican reformer whose paradigmatic thinking about painting and calligraphy cast a long shadow on modern/contemporary Chinese art discourses. She has also researched on Japanese connections in Bengali modernism in India, sensory perceptions in daimyō gardens in Japan, Japonist gardens in France, Ikebukuro Montparnasse (an artist commune in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s), Stele-style haiku calligraphy in Japan, modern Sino-Korean calligraphy relations, and art history of the Asian diasporas. Her publications have been translated into Chinese, Korean, and French.