| Modern Art for a Modern China: The Chinese Intellectual Debate, 1900–1930 Subjects: Arts; Area Studies; Politics & International Relations; Art & Visual Culture; Visual Arts; Asian Studies; Asian Politics; Contemporary Art; Modern Art; Regional Art; History of Art & Design; Chinese Politics; Chinese Studies; How did art reform fit into the many initiatives for social and cultural change that contributed to the New Cultural Movement that transformed the Chinese cultural landscape during the Republican period? Yiyan Wang is Professor of Chinese at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research is in the field of modern Chinese literature and culture. She has been particularly interested in the interconnection between modern Chinese literature and art and between the writers and the artists. |