Jeehee Hong - Department Chair

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor
Gretta Chambers Chair in East Asian Art History

 

Jeehee Hong - Department Chair
Contact Information
Address: 

853 Sherbrooke Street W
Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5

Email address: 
jeehee.hong [at] mcgill.ca
Department: 
East Asian Studies
Office: 
W-245
Biography: 

Jeehee Hong is a specialist in the ritual art and visual cultures of middle-period China (ninth to fourteenth century CE). Her first book, Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000–1400 (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016), explores complex intersections of the visual, mortuary, and everyday worlds, and demonstrates a new phase in the conception of the netherworld and the practice of ancestral worship in China at the beginning of the second millennium. She is currently working on three main topics; the first project engages the ontological understanding of the face as a field of negotiations among social, religious, visual conventions in the visual arts of middle-period China; the second investigates changing epistemology of sense perceptions in the visual field from early to middle period; the third is a collaborative effort to probe the boundaries and locality of visual cultures in medieval and middle-period China. Her research questions bring together various mediums and formal categories of art, often inspired by cross-cultural phenomena in the visual world.

Area(s): 
China
Research areas: 
Chinese Art
Book images: 
Book cover: Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000–1400
Areas of interest: 

Research Interests: Middle-period (9th-14th centuries) Chinese art, especially ritual art and visual culture; social location of the visual; materiality, intermediality, and agency in art; affect and emotion in art; dimensions of "the real" in visual culture.

Group: 
Associate Professor
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