Survey of Art in China is a series of museum visits and sit-down lectures of high-quality, university-level talks offered by Julie Chun (Adjunct Professor of Art History) in monthly sessions to engage with well-known yet little-understood objects and artifacts in China.  The purpose of these sessions is to assist in expanding your scope and breadth of knowledge pertaining to Chinese history, culture, and civilization through the visual arts, whether you are a newcomer or a long-time resident of Shanghai.

In this 3rd session in our series, we will explore the emergence of sculptural images in China. This special session of SEA’s night-at-the-museum will take you back to the earliest era in China as we examine the fragmentary evidence of sculptural forms that were originally constructed as religious and funerary markers, reliquaries and monuments that eventually found their way into museums as “art.” And how did the arrival of Buddhism in China accelerate the rise of image-making and…