Events

27 Feb 2025 - 12 Apr 2025

Please refer to the posters

Please refer to the posters

畢宗陶教授 Prof. Stacey Pierson

香港中文大學藝術系及中國文化研究所訪問學人

英國倫敦大學亞非學院中國陶瓷史教授

Visiting Scholar, Department of Fine Arts and Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK

Professor of the History of Chinese Ceramics at SOAS, University of London

Professor Stacey Pierson is the 2025 Visiting Scholar at the Department of Fine Arts and the Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, sponsored by the Bei Shan Tang Foundation. She is Professor of the History of Chinese Ceramics at SOAS, University of London. In addition to teaching and supervising research students in the School of Arts, she is also the former President of the Oriental Ceramic Society (London) and is series editor for the Routledge title Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1550-1950. Previously, from 1995 to 2007, she was Curator of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, also at the University of London, which housed the world-renowned David collection of Chinese ceramics. She has published widely on aspects of Chinese ceramics, Percival David and the history of collecting and exhibitions, including Collectors, Collections and Museums: the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain: 1560-1960 (2007), Chinese Ceramics: a Design History (2009), From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain (2013), Private Collecting, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Art History in London: the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1866-1950 (2017) and the edited volume Visual, Material and Textual Cultures of Food and Drink in China, 200 BCE – 1900 CE, Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, no. 25 (2022). Her most recent research project focused on Dr Johnson’s Chinese teapot, which is on display in the British Museum.

aeo.finearts@link.cuhk.edu.hk / 3943 7620

The “Professor Stacey Pierson Chinese Art History Lecture Series 2025” scheduled for 27 February, 12 & 14 March and 12 April 2025. Please refer to the posters below for details.

Professor Stacey Pierson is the 2025 Visiting Scholar at the Department of Fine Arts and the Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, sponsored by the Bei Shan Tang Foundation. Prof. Pierson is an esteemed scholar in the field of Chinese art history and Professor of the History of Chinese Ceramics at SOAS, University of London. We are delighted to extend an invitation to her to deliver four lectures and inspire us in the following areas:

1.       Architecture, Collecting and Spatial Aesthetics: Chinese Porcelain in Global Display Contexts
2.       Shipwreck Ceramics in and from Southeast Asia
3.       Cobalt Blue and Ceramic Design in Tang Dynasty China
4.       Crossing Materials: West Asian Metalwork and Ceramic Tableware Design in Pre-Song China

All four lectures are open for on-site attendance and Zoom Webinar live streaming, with simultaneous interpretation in Mandarin available during the live broadcast.

On-site Attendance Registration: Click here

Zoom Webinar Registration: Click here

For more details, please visit: https://shorturl.at/chthC