Associate Professor, East Asian Art
Lindner Center for Art History, McIntire Department of Art

Ph.D., Harvard University

Fields: East Asian Art

Dorothy Wong received her B.A. from the International Christian University (Tokyo), her M.Phil. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and her Ph.D. in the History of Art, with a specialization in Chinese Art, from Harvard University. Specializing in Buddhist art of medieval China, Dorothy Wong's research addresses topics of art in relation to religion and society. In addition to her recent book Chinese Steles: Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form (2004), she has authored 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. Previously an editor for the Asian art magazine Orientations, she currently serves on the editorial board of Early Medieval China.

Web pages:

• http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dcw7a/