Dorothy Wong
B.A., International Christian University, Tokyo Associate Professor, East Asian Art Specializing in Buddhist art of medieval China, Dorothy Wong’s research addresses topics of art in relation to religion and society, and of the relationship between religious texts/doctrine and visual representations. In addition to Chinese Steles: Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form (2004) and Hōryūji Reconsidered (editor and contributing author, 2008), she has published articles that range in topics from pilgrims’ maps to devotional arts, deity cults, pure land paintings, gender and ethnicity issues in Buddhist patronage, cults of saints in Asian traditions, and images of Buddhist cosmographies. Her current research project includes a book-length manuscript on the transmission of Buddhist art from China to Japan during the seventh and eighth centuries, and the subsequent transformations. As a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Technology in Humanities at the University of Virginia, she is working on a digital project entitled: “Silk Road: The Path of Transmission of Avalokiteśvara” . The courses that Dorothy Wong teach include surveys of East Asian art, Chinese art, and Japanese art. She also offers seminars on ancient Chinese art and on topics of Buddhist art. She has taught for two years at Florida State University before coming to the University of Virginia. As Visiting Professor, she taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in spring 2006, at the Eötövs Loránd University, Budapest, in May 2007, and at the Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong in December 2008. A former editor of the Asian art magazine Orientations, she currently serves on the editorial boards of Early Medieval China and Buddhist Art of China. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong.
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