Research
I am currently working on a book-length project, with the working title of "Not Appropriate for a Scholar's Study: A Cultural Biography of 'The Night Banquet of Han Xizai.'"
The subject of the book is the handscroll painting attributed to the Southern Tang court painter, Gu Hongzhong, which is currently in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing. Most scholars currently agree that the painting does not date to the tenth century, but is a later copy, perhaps of the Southern Song period, or about the twelfth century.
My approach to studying 'Night Banquet' blends reception theory with cultural biography, a notion adapted from cultural anthropology.