Dong Yang

Visiting from Chengdu University, China

PhD, Sichuan University 2009

Email: yangdong1111@cdu.edu.cn

Office: 2244

Office Hours: By appointment

Academic Appointment

Professor of Chinese Art History Chengdu University | 2009–Present

Professional Affiliations 

Member, Theoretical Committee, Sichuan Artists Association
Vice Chair, Folk Art Review Committee, Sichuan Literary & Art Critics Association
Member, Higher Education Fine Arts Steering Committee, Sichuan Provincial Department of Education

Professional Affiliations

Member, Theoretical Committee, Sichuan Artists Association
Vice Chair, Folk Art Review Committee, Sichuan Literary & Art Critics Association
Member, Higher Education Fine Arts Steering Committee, Sichuan Provincial Department of Education

Research Grants (Principal Investigator)

  1. National Social Science Fund (Art Studies) “Images, Functions, and Ideologies: Research on Folk Nianhua (Late Qing–Anti-Japanese War)” | 2017–2022 
  2. Ministry of Education Humanities & Social Sciences “New China’s New Nianhua” | 2011–2014 
  3. Sichuan Provincial Philosophy & Social Sciences “Jiajiang Nianhua Documentation” | 2024–Present 
(3 additional completed grants available upon request)

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Monographs
  1. A Study on China’s New Nianhua Movement. Bashu Press, 2019.
  2. A History of New China’s Nianhua (Forthcoming). China Federation of Literary & Art Circles Press.
  3. Images, Functions, and Ideologies: Research on Folk Nianhua (Late Qing–Anti-Japanese War) (Forthcoming). Zhonghua Book Company.
Journal Articles
  1. “Visual Narratives in Late Qing Battle Prints.” Literary & Artistic Contention, 2023(1). (CSSCI)
  2. “Art or Commodity? A Shift in Perspective for Traditional Nianhua Research.” Art & Design, 2020(1). (CSSCI)
  3. “A Common Misconception in the Transmission of Folk Nianhua: A Case Study of Laohekou Prints.” Zhuangshi,  2018(9). (CSSCI Extended)
  4. “Visual Metaphor and Ideological Rhetoric: The Female Image in 1950s Calendar Nianhua.” Jiangxi Social Sciences, 2009(3). (CSSCI; Full-text reprinted by Duplicating Materials of Renmin University of China) 5.“Qian Xuan’s Jin Hui Dui and European Vanitas: A Comparative Study.” Proceedings of the 2021 National Art Summit Forum, 2021.
  5. “An 18th-Century Sino-European Dialogue: Calendar Motifs in Gusu Prints and European Still Lifes.” Folk Art, 2021(6).
  6. “Reforming Shanghai Calendar Posters in Early PRC (1949–1956).” Art Observation, 2016(8). (CSSCI)
  7. “Spatial Narratives in Chinese Ink Animation.” Contemporary Cinema, 2016(12). (CSSCI)
  8. “From ‘Mass Culture’ to Popular Culture: Nianhua in 1980s China.” Art Observation, 2015(8). (CSSCI)
  9. “Modern Folk Nianhua in Sichuan.” Literary & Artistic Contention, 2015(5). (CSSCI)
  10. “Revisiting the Modernity of New Chinese Art.” Art Observation, 2010(3). (Chinese Core)
  11. “A Review of New China’s Nianhua Award Programs.” Forum on Chinese Culture, 2013(8). (CSSCI Extended)
  12. “A Cultural Reflection on the Art-for-the-People Movement.” Literary & Artistic Contention, 2009(3). (CSSCI)
  13. “The Aesthetic Turn in Early-20th-Century Chinese Painting.” Seeker, 2008 (11). (CSSCI)
  14. “The New Nianhua Movement through the Lens of Cultural Hegemony Theory.” Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art, 2011(3). (CSSCI)