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Visiting Fellow - Visiting Scholar

Michelle Ying-Ling Huang is currently Research Assistant Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts, The Hong Kong Baptist University and was previously Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Fine Arts, The University of Hong Kong. As a Chinese scholar who was born in Hong Kong and grew up in the context of a British colony, Michelle developed a strong interest in investigating East-West cultural interactions from an interdisciplinary, comparative and global perspective. She obtained her PhD in Art History from The University of St Andrews with her doctoral thesis entitled “The Reception of Chinese Painting in Britain circa 1880-1920, with Special Reference to Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)”, while her research interests include the transmission and trans-cultural influences of East Asian art in the West, the collecting and display of Chinese pictorial art in Europe and North America, the historiography of Chinese painting, Chinese aesthetics and Western modernism.
Michelle’s recent publications appeared in the Journal of the History of Collections (2010), Orientations (2010) and Beyond Boundaries: East & West Cross-Cultural Encounters (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). She is editing a new volume entitled The Reception of Chinese Art across Cultures, while undertaking research into the roles of collectors, art dealers and curators in forming museum collections of Chinese painting and calligraphy in early twentieth-century Britain and North America.