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DESCRIPTION:The East Asia Program is honored to have Wu Hung\, the Harrie A
 . Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and Director
  of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago\, to g
 ive the 2025-2026 Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture: “Emperor Qianlong’s Peepsh
 ow Boxes: A Case of 18th-century Global Interaction in Art and Visual Cultu
 re.”\n\nThis is a hybrid event. To attend online\, please register here wit
 h your cornell.edu email address: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/
 WN_OKbtn2tEQ92ZW_FrQ_FaNw\n\nAbstract: By focusing on a group of newly disc
 overed visual materials—most notably a pair of peepshow boxes produced in E
 urope and China\, respectively—this talk examines a series of transformatio
 ns unfolding in eighteenth-century art and visual culture across geographic
  and cultural boundaries.\n\nBio: Wu Hung has published widely on both trad
 itional and contemporary Chinese art. His interest in both traditional and 
 modern/contemporary Chinese art has led him to experiment with different wa
 ys to integrate these conventionally separate phases into new kinds of art 
 historical narratives\, as exemplified by his Monumentality in Early Chines
 e Art and Architecture (1995)\, The Double Screen: Medium and Representatio
 n of Chinese Pictorial Art (1996)\, Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square: the
  Creation of a Political Space (2005)\, A Story of Ruins: Presence and Abse
 nce in Chinese Art and Visual Culture (2012)\, and Zooming In: Histories of
  Photography in China (2016). Several of his ongoing projects follow this d
 irection to explore the interrelationship between art medium\, pictorial im
 age\, and architectural space\, the dialectical relationship between absenc
 e and presence in Chinese art and visual culture\, and the relationship bet
 ween art discourse and practice.\n\nWu Hung is Director of the Center for t
 he Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago. He is an elected member o
 f the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical 
 Society\, and sits on the boards and advisory committees of many research i
 nstitutes and museums in the United States and China.\n\nHu Shih Distinguis
 hed Lecture\n\nIn 2014 on the 100th anniversary of Hu Shih's graduation fro
 m Cornell\, EAP initiated an annual distinguished lecture in honor of the p
 hilosopher and statesman. Leading scholars of Chinese and East Asian studie
 s are invited to speak on critical issues in their field of research. These
  lectures are archived as a resource for the Cornell community and beyond. 
 Learn more about one of Cornell's most distinguished alumni\, Hu Shih.\n\nH
 u Shih Distinguished Lecture videos and programs are permanently archived i
 n the Cornell eCommons.About East Asia Program\n\nAs Cornell’s hub for rese
 arch\, teaching\, and engagement with East Asia\, the East Asia Program (EA
 P) serves as a forum for the interdisciplinary study of historical and cont
 emporary East Asia. The program draws its membership of over 45 core facult
 y and numerous affiliated faculty\, graduate\, and undergraduate students f
 rom eight of Cornell’s 12 schools and colleges.
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SUMMARY:Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture: Emperor Qianlong’s Peepshow Boxes: A
  Case of Eighteenth-Century Global Interaction in Art and Visual Culture
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