Conferences
International (Invited)
“Elite Uighurs as Cultural Middlemen in Buddhist Printing in the Mongol Empire,” paper presented at the Inaugural Rice University / Humboldt University of Berlin Faculty Colloquium, “Politics, Media, Medium,” Rice University, December 1, 2018.
“The Circulations of Hangzhou Buddhist Frontispieces in the Sinosphere and Beyond,” paper presented at the international conference “Reconsidering the Sinosphere: A Conference to Critically Analyze the Literary Sinitic in East Asian Cultures” organized by Nanxiu Qian and Richard Smith, Rice University. March 30, 2017.
“Buddhist Frontispieces Printed in 10th-14th Century Hangzhou,” paper presented at the International Conference on Buddhist Manuscript Cultures, Princeton University, January 21, 2017.
“The Printing of the Lotus Sutra Illustrations in the Middle Period China and Beyond,” paper presented at the International Lotus Sutra Seminar of “Bodhisattvas in Action: Living the Lotus Sutra in Text, Image and History” organized by the Rissho Kosai-kai international, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, June 27-July 1, 2016
“Buddhist Woodcuts under the Tangut and Mongol Rules,” paper presented at the AAS-in-ASIA, Doshisha University, June 26, 2016
“Reassessing Printed Buddhist Frontispieces from Xi Xia,” paper presented at the international conference “Art, Archaeology and History: New Horizons in Researching and Rethinking Images,” co-organized by National Institute for Advanced Humanitistic Studies at Fudan University, Shaanxi Historical Museum, Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Xi’an Beilin Museum, Famen Temple Museum; held at the Shaanxi Historical Museum, Xi’an, November 6, 2014
“Cong zhonggu fojiao banhua suo jian zhi Song hua yuansu tan banhua yu huihua de hudong” (On the interaction of woodcuts and paintings based on the pictorial elements evident in Song-dynasty woodcuts inspired by Song-dynasty paintings), paper presented at the International Conference on Song Dynasty Painting, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, October 30, 2014
“Color in Daoist Visual Culture,” paper presented at the international symposium of “Color in Ancient and Medieval East Asia,” The Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, March 8-9, 2013
“Tang Song zhiji fojiao banhua zhibian: cong huihuaxing tuxiang de meiti zhuanhua yu zimo sheji tanqi”
(Transformation of Buddhist woodblock print in the Tang and Song transition: concerning the media transfer and modular construction of pictorial images), paper presented at the international conference of “Transformation of the Cultural History of Chinese images: the Wei-Jin and Tang-Song Transitions,” Academia Sinica, the Institute of History and Philology, Taipei, Taiwan, June 25-26, 2012
“The Visual Culture of Temple Divinations in Song China,” paper presented at the international conference of “Divinatory Traditions in East Asia: Historical, Comparative and Transnational Perspective,” Rice University, February 17, 2012
“Cong Daozang de tu tan songdai daojiao yishi de kongjian xing yu wuzhi xing” (Spatiality and Materiality in Song Daoist Ritual), invited talk at the international conference of “Tuxiang yu yishi: zhongguo gudai zongjiao shi yu yishushi de ronghe” (Imagery and Ritual: Synthesis of the History of Religions and Art History in Traditional China), Fudan University, National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Shanghai, China, December 3-5, 2011
“Materializing Daoist Sacred Space,” invited talk at the international conference of “Song Daoism,” the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Center for the Studies of Daoist Culture, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Hong Kong, September 22-23, 2011
“Cong shi zhi shisan shiji fojiao banhua tan Tang Song zhiji huihuaxing tuxiang de meiti zhuanhua yu zimo sheji” (Media transfer and modular construction of pictorial images in Buddhist illustrated prints, 10th-13th centuries), invited talk at the International conference of “Transformation of the Cultural History of Chinese images: the Wei-Jin and Tang-Song Transitions,” Academia Sinica, the Institute of History and Philology, Taipei, Taiwan, June 26, 2011
“Summoning the Gods: Paintings of the ‘Three Officials of Heaven, Earth, and Water’ in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Their Association with Taoist Ritual Performance in the 12th Century,” paper presented in the international conference “Religion and Chinese Society: The Transformation of a Field and its Implications for the Study of Chinese Culture,” Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 31, 2000
International (Juried)
“Elite Uighurs and the Network of Buddhist Printed Books in the Mongol Empire,” paper presented at the International Conference “From the Silk to the Book Road(s): Networks of Commerce, Artifacts, and Books Between Central and East Asia.” Graduate Berkeley Hotel, Berkeley, September 22, 2018.
“Reconsidering Xi Xia and Yuan Connections: Buddhist Printing Perspectives,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the AAS-in-ASIA, Korea University, Seoul, June 26, 2017.
“Buddhist Woodcuts under the Tangut and Mongol Rules,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the AAS-in-ASIA, Doshisha University 同志社女子大學, Kyoto, June 26, 2016
“Xi Xia Buddhist Printed Illustrations,” presented at the Middle Period China conference, Harvard University, June 7, 2014
“Buddhist Divination Print from Hangzhou, China,” presented at the 61st Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS), Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Jinshan, Taiwan, June 22, 2011
“Daoist Mental Imagery of Body and Cosmos: Notes on the Visual Evidence from Daozang,” paper presented in the fifth International Conference of Daoism, Wudangshang, Hubei, China, June 20, 2009
“The Temple Divinations Tianzhu lingqian: Subject Matter, Pictorial Narratives, and Cultural Meaning of the Southern Song Popular Print,” paper presented at the 4th Biannual Meeting of the International Convention for Asian Scholars (ICAS4), Shanghai, China, August 21, 2005
“Imagining Efficacy: The Common Ground between Buddhist and Daoist Pictorial Art in Song C1hina,” paper presented at Daoism and the Contemporary World: An International Conference of Daoist Studies, Boston University, June 7, 2003
National (Invited)
“The Diamond Sutra: Hybridity and Syncretism of its Images and Texts,” presented at the “Questions of Syncretism and Hybridity in Chinese Religious History” Workshop, University of Chicago, April 28, 2017.
“Visual Evidence of Popular Culture in Multicultural China, 10th-14th Centuries,” presented at the Asian Studies Southern Consortium, Rice University, January 22, 2011
“Making Religious Art in the Southern Song: Local Practices of Buddhist Illustrative Prints and Paintings in Hangzhou and Ningbo,” paper presented at the Song Painting and its Legacy: A Conference at Yale University in Honor of Professor Richard M. Barnhart, April 3, 2004
National (Juried)
“Elite Uighurs as Cultural Middlemen of Buddhist Books and Woodcuts in the Mongol Empire,” paper presented at a panel sponsored by the Society of Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies, the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Denver, March 22, 2019
“Religious Woodcuts and Cultural Transformation: Buddhist Woodcuts by the Tanguts, the Mongols, and the Uighurs in the Middle Period,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Seattle, April 1, 2016
“Literacy and Writing in Daoism,” participant for the roundtable “Literacy and Writing in Premodern China” at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Philadelphia, March 28, 2014
“Visualizing the Inner Realm: Daoist Body Charts in Song-Yuan Neidan,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), San Diego, March 17, 2013
“True Form Charts and the Daoist Visuality,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Toronto, March 17, 2012
“Materiality and Performance of Daoist Salvation Ritual in Song China,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Honolulu, April 3, 2011
“The Visual Culture of Temple Oracles in Medieval China,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP), Oxford Brooke University, Oxford, England, June 26, 2008
“Praying for Officialdom: The Printed Divinations Efficacious Sticks from Tianzhu,” paper presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago, April 1, 2005
“The Relocation of the Printed Scroll Wenshu’s Guidance from Hangzhou to Kozan-ji, Kyoto,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Associations for Asian Studies (AAS), San Diego, March 5, 2004
“Images of Efficacy and Their Roles in Buddhist and Daoist Liturgies in Song China,” paper presented at the Annual Conference of College Art Association (CAA), New York, February 20, 2003
“How the Gods were Made: Three Officials of Heaven, Earth, and Water as A Case Study of the Religious Painting Practice in the Southern Song Period (1127-1279),” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), San Diego, March 11, 2000; and at the New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Yale University, October 9, 1999
“Crossing Boundaries: Sesshu’s Great Synthesis,” paper selected by the Department of the History of Art, Yale University to be delivered in the Frick Symposium on the History of Art sponsored by the Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, New York, April 3, 1998