Department of Fine Arts,
CUHK

Part-time Lecturer

KWOK Yin Ning Elaine

Kwok, Yin Ning, Elaine obtained her BA degree (double majors in art history and film studies with First Class Honors), MPhil degree and PhD (in art history on HKU Postgraduate Studentships and University Postgraduate Fellowship) from the University of Hong Kong. She teaches courses on Western and Chinese art history. Since 2014 she has been teaching two MA courses on Chinese art history (before and after 1900). She also taught courses on art theory for the CUHK MA program in Visual Culture Studies; four survey and thematic courses on contemporary Western art history for a BA program at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (offshore campus in Hong Kong) during 2014-2017. For Christie’s Education (Asia) she has taught Western art history on various topics since 2014. Her research interests embrace art history and aesthetics (Western and Chinese), and cross-cultural interaction history between Europe and China. On these subjects, her publications appear in academic journals and publishing institutes including Grove Dictionary of Art, Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press.

Research Interests:

  • Chinese art – aesthetics and history
  • Western art – aesthetics and history
  • cross-cultural interaction between China and the West – aesthetics and history
  • comparison between Chinese art and Western art – aesthetics and history

Journal Articles and Book Publications:

  • 2023 (estimated publish year): (Chinese version based on PhD thesis, tentative book title) 《歐洲對中國書畫之理解（1600-1850）》, 香港： 三聯書店.
  • 2020: Review of Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective, by Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler, New York: Herbert Press, 2019.  College Art Association, CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2020.70 at http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3718#.YCC6cOkzZRc
  • 2018: “A Five-Dimensional Approach to Conceptualizing the Interplay of Image, Emotions, and Senses.”  Visual Past: A Journal for the Study of Past Visual Cultures, Vol. 5, 2018: 239-259 (online ISSN 2199–1383).  (First published in: Studies in Visual Arts and Communication – An International Journal, The George Enescu University of Arts, Vol. 3 (2), Dec 2016.)
  • 2017: “China; Architecture, Shanghai Art Deco.”  The Grove Encyclopedia of Asian Art & Architecture, Grove Dictionary of Art, Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press.
  • 2017: (article revision) “China, §XVI: Art training.”  The Grove Encyclopedia of Asian Art & Architecture, Grove Dictionary of Art, Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press.
  • 2017 contracted: (tentative book title) European Ways of Seeing Chinese Painting & Calligraphy during 17th-19th Centuries, Joint Publishing (HK) Co. Ltd. (in Chinese)
  • 2016: “A Five-Dimensional Approach to Conceptualizing the Interplay of Image, Emotions, and Senses.”  Studies in Visual Arts and Communication – an International Journal, the George Enescu University of Arts, Vol. 3(2), Dec 2016 (online ISSN 2393 – 1221).
  • 2015: “Lay’s The Chinese as They Are (1841) as an Excellent Example Illustrating the Importance of Studying Art Reception in Art History.”  Journal of the Association of Western Art History (Images and Histories), 43: 165-190.

Conference Papers:

  • 2015: “Europeans’ Profound Understanding of and Responses to the Architectural Aesthetics of Chinese Buildings and Gardens in the 18th century” for Reading Architecture Across the Arts and Humanities (An AHRC-Funded Interdisciplinary Conference), the University of Stirling
  • 2015: “18th-Century Architectural Studies were the Pioneers in Cross-Cultural Exchange between Europe and China” for the 14th Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS, Rotterdam), Erasmus University, Rotterdam
  • 2014: “The Role of Physicality and Materiality in European’s Global Sensibilities when Responding to Chinese Painting and Calligraphy after 1600 and before 1860” for the 15th DNS Conference: Ideas and Enlightenment in the Long Eighteenth Century (David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies XV), the University of Sydney
  • 2014: “Art Reception and Emotion Perception” for Aesthetic Notions: Framing Emotional Perception (Collogue International 2014), les centres de recherche des Universités Paris-Sorbonne
  • 2013: “Painting and Emotions” for Art and Emotion (an International Postgraduate Conference), Philosophy Department, the University of Hong Kong
  • 2012: “European Landscape Paintings and Unconventional Visual Qualities Conveying Revolutionary Spatial Characteristics in the 19th Century” for Logic of Image and Its Interpretations (an International Postgraduate Conference), School of Arts, Peking University