Jeehee Hong

McGill University

February–June 2017

Jeehee Hong is Gretta Chambers Chair in East Asian Art History at McGill University. A specialist in the ritual art and visual cultures of middle-period China (ninth to fourteenth century CE), she is the author of Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000–1400 (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016). At the Clark, she will trace the formation of boundaries—including religious and social boundary-making—as communicated through treatises on artistic practices and theories of reception from the middle period.