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Abstract The following texts was written by a student in the fall 2017 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures seminar Seventeenth-Century Nanjing: Painting, Theater, Memoir to accompany the exhibition Dreaming the Lost Ming. The course is the second in an annual series, Cal Conversations, in which BAMPFA curators collaborate with UC Berkeley professors from a variety of disciplines on a specific course designed to engage students with the BAMPFA collection; the course culminates in an exhibition the following semester.
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Abstract The following texts was written by a student in the fall 2017 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures seminar Seventeenth-Century Nanjing: Painting, Theater, Memoir to accompany the exhibition Dreaming the Lost Ming. The course is the second in an annual series, Cal Conversations, in which BAMPFA curators collaborate with UC Berkeley professors from a variety of disciplines on a specific course designed to engage students with the BAMPFA collection; the course culminates in an exhibition the following semester.
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Asian Studies, Computer Science, Art History, Horticulture, Museum Studies, Arts Administration, Biology, Art and Science, China, Hermeneutics and Narrative, Art Law, Visual Arts, Multidisciplinary, Curatorial writing, Science for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Literary Theory and Criticism, Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts Education, Vine and Wine History, Curatorial Research
Vivien Jiaqian Zhu 朱嘉倩
Stanford University
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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5349244.
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Skip to main content searchkeyboard_arrow_down home Home whatshot Impact format_quote Citations bar_chart Analytics arrow_upward Upload apps Tools Welcome back to Premium 1 Vivien Jiaqian keyboard_arrow_down check_circle PDF available Xu Wei's Melon and Vine Vivien Jiaqian Zhu 朱嘉倩 2018, Jiaqian Zhu 148 views 28 downloads more_horiz More options arrow_downward Download PDF lockDownload Full PDF Package Vivien Jiaqian Zhu 朱嘉倩 Stanford University, Graduate Student . PAPERS 49 FOLLOWERS 55 Related He Wore Flowers in His Hair: Understanding a Late Ming through His Mid-Ming Subject Joy Lidu Yi 98% relevancy 549 views 152 downloads Review of Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China Lin Hang 96% relevancy 263 views 82 downloads Lin, Li-chiang, “A Study of the Xinjuan hainei qiguan, a Ming Dynasty Book of Famous Sites,” in Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong, ed. Jerome Silbergeld, Dora C.Y. Ching, Judith G. Smith, and Alfreda Murck (Princeton: P.Y.and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 2011), pp.779–812. 94% relevancy 2K views 746 downloads “The Art of Being Artistic: Painting Manuals of Late Ming China (1550–1644) and the Negotiation of Taste," Artibus Asiae 71, no.3 (2011): 5–54. 91% relevancy 1.9K views 796 downloads "The Anxiety of Influence: (Mis)reading Chinese Art in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700–1850)," Art Bulletin 97, no. 3 (2015): 301–322. 89% relevancy 1.1K views 487 downloads "The Aesthetics of Scholarship: Weng Fanggang and the Cult of Su Shi in Late Eighteenth-Century Beijing" Michele Matteini 86% relevancy 499 views 167 downloads "Ways of Perceiving in Late Imperial China" (review essay) [Keywords: book review 書評, Anne Burkus-Chasson 安濮, Jonathan Hay 喬迅, James Cahill 高居翰, Chinese art 中國藝術史, perception 感知方式, sensuality 肉感体验, late imperial China 中國帝國晚期] Jennifer Purtle（裴珍妮） 83% relevancy 593 views 249 downloads Murals After Murals: Paint On Walls in Early-Modern North China (intro and first chapter) Hannibal Taubes 80% relevancy 585 views 232 downloads Abstract The following texts was written by a student in the fall 2017 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures seminar Seventeenth-Century Nanjing: Painting, Theater, Memoir to accompany the exhibition Dreaming the Lost Ming. The course is the second in an annual series, Cal Conversations, in which BAMPFA curators collaborate with UC Berkeley professors from a variety of disciplines on a specific course designed to engage students with the BAMPFA collection; the course culminates in an exhibition the following semester. Paper details Publisher: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Journal Name: SSRN Electronic Journal, 2025 Page Numbers: 14-17 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.5349244 BAMPFA_Cal_Con_Reader_FIN2.pdf bamlive.s3.amazonaws.com figshare.com sell Asian Studies, Computer Science, Art History, Horticulture, Museum Studies, Arts Administration, Biology, Art and Science, China, Hermeneutics and Narrative, Art Law, Visual Arts, Multidisciplinary, Curatorial writing, Science for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Literary Theory and Criticism, Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts Education, Vine and Wine History, Curatorial Research PDF CAL CONVERSATIONS Dreaming the Lost Ming 夢回金陵 READER Please do not remove from the gallery. Download digital version: bampfa.org/lostming-reader ii iii Preface Sophie Volpp Fan Qi’s Evening Landscape Leslie Huang The Leftover Subject’s Wild Willows: Gong Xian’s The Solitary Willow Dwelling Allyson Tang Lan Ying’s Garden Rock and The Peach Blossom Fan Qiqi Huang Hidden Springs: Lan Ying and Xie Bin’s Five Portraits of a Scholar in a Landscape Shirley Shao Yun Shouping’s Flowers and Landscapes Jon Soriano Xu Wei’s Melon and Vine Jiaqian Zhu Betrayed by Ink: An Examination of Shitao’s Lotus of 1706 Joel Thielen Hu Yukun’s Scenes of Nanjing Zijing Fan Shitao and His Reminiscences of Nanjing Xiangjun Feng Collected Translations Works in the Exhibition 1 3 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 26 About Press Papers Topics Academia.edu Journals work We're Hiring! help Help Center TermsPrivacyCopyrightContent PolicyAcademia ©2026
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