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Name in Chinese
陳芳芳
Biography
Dr. Chen Fong-fong teaches Chinese art history in the Department of Visual Studies at Lingnan University. She earned her Ph.D. in Chinese art history from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and her M.A. in Humanities from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. When she was a doctoral candidate, she was a visiting doctoral student at the University of Oxford, and a visiting scholar and J.S. Lee Memorial Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). She was previously an associate curator at the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) at the University of Hong Kong and interned at M+ and the CUHK Art Museum. Before joining Lingnan University, she was a lecturer in the Department of History at the Hong Kong Baptist University and her teaching engaged with archaeology, museum studies and cultural heritage.
Chen researches the history and theory of Chinese art, particularly Chinese painting and calligraphy. Her current research centers on representations of women and fashion in China from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries across mediums. Other research interests include photography, the transnational history of Chinese art, museum studies and Hong Kong art. Chen is interested in the interdisciplinary study and cross-cultural understanding of Chinese art and museums. Her research findings have been presented in numerous international conferences, public talks, and guest lectures, and published in Ming-Qing Yanjiu, edited volumes, and exhibition catalogues. Her curatorial practice has included “Multiple Encounters” in collaboration with Yang Fudong (BAMPFA, 2014), “Tradition to Contemporary: Ink Painting and Artistic Development in 20th-Century China” (UMAG, 2018), and “Silent Voices” (1a Space, 2020).
With funding support from the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, she has recently started a new research project on Hong Kong landscapes and the art of Qing loyalists.
Research interests
Chinese painting and calligraphy, Qing court art, fashion history, gender and sexuality, museum studies, Hong Kong art, world’s fairs
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Marginalized Communities and Intersectionality in Contemporary Art and Education in Hong Kong
CHEN, F. F. (PI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Grant Research
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When Clothes Mattered in Female Figure Paintings: Wu Youru and the Media Turn in Shanghai (1870s-1920s) (仕女畫中衣飾重要性的演變——吳友如與上海的媒介轉向(1870–1920 年代))
CHEN, F. F. (PI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Grant Research
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Fashion and Representations of Women in Late-Qing and Early Republican Print Culture
CHEN, F. F. (PI)
1/01/23 → 25/12/24
Project: Grant Research
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Remembrance of Things Past : Sung Wong Toi as Sight and Site
CHEN, F. F. (Presenter), 24 Jun 2023.Research output: Other Conference Contributions › Presentation
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工筆與光影下的別樣中環
陳芳芳, Apr 2023, 讀書雜誌, 7, p. 29-35 7 p.Research output: Other Publications › Other Article › Research
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感物 = Sensing Things
何翠芬 (Editor), 陳芳芳 (Editor) & 唐啓翔 (Editor), Aug 2023, 嶺南大學. 207 p.Research output: Scholarly Books | Reports | Literary Works › Book (Editor) › Profession
Prizes
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LU Research & Knowledge Transfer Fund Award 2023 (RGC Grant)
CHEN, F. F. (Recipient), Sept 2023
Prize: Prize (CDCF)
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LU Research & Knowledge Transfer Fund Award 2024 (RGC Grant)
CHEN, F. F. (Recipient), Sept 2024
Prize: Prize (CDCF)
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Design and Materials of Embroidered Female Clothes: A Transcultural Object
CHEN, F. F. (Speaker)
10 Jul 2024Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations
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明代女教書的刻印和傳播——以《大明仁孝皇后內訓》為例 The Printing and Dissemination of Books for Female Education in the Ming Dynasty: A Case Study of Daming Renxiao Huanghou Neixun
CHEN, F. F. (Speaker)
27 Mar 2024Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations
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Mapping Hong Kong Landscapes: Historic Places of Textiles and Visual Arts
CHEN, F. F. (Speaker)
18 Feb 2023Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations