Lee, Wun Sze Sylvia
Associate Professor
Southeast Asian Studies
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Biography
Dr. Lee received her PhD in 2011 and return to the Art Museum and the Fine Arts Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Postâ€doctoral Fellow in 2015. Prior to returning to the department she taught as a Research Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Lee specializes in the history of Chinese women painters and garden culture in the seventeenth century.
Research Interest
Painters and the art market in the Ming to early Qing dynasties (eighteenth century
Publications
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"Orchid Paintings by Seventeenth-century Chinese Courtesans: Erotic Performances and Tokens of Seduction." Harvard Asia Quarterly 16, no. 3 (2014): 31-41.
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"’Co-branding’ a Cainü and a Garden: How the Zhao Family Established Identities for Wen Shu and their Garden Residence, Hanshan." Nan Nü: Men, Women,and Gender in Early and Imperial China 18, no. 1 (2016): 39-8.
