Michelle C. Wang 王慧蘭

Georgetown University, Art and Art History, Faculty Member

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Kansas State University

Miljana Radivojević

University College London

Armando Marques-Guedes

UNL - New University of Lisbon

Michal Biran

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Andrea Squitieri

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Olga Palagia

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Robert Mayer

University of Oxford

Dai MATSUI

Osaka University

Erhan Aydın

Dokuz Eylül University

André Bueno

UERJ - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Rio de Janeiro State University

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Articles by Michelle C. Wang 王慧蘭

(2022) "Seeking the Pure Land in Tangut Art" in Yukiyo Kasai and Henrik H. Sorensen, eds., Buddhism in Central Asia II: Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022), 207-243

This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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(2020) Buddhism and Silk: Reassessing a Painted Banner from Medieval Central Asia in The Met, co-authored with Xin Wen and Susan Whitfield

Metropolitan Museum Journal, 2020

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(2020) The CDC’s Misappropriation of a Chinese Textile, and Why It Matters

Hyperallergic, 2020

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(2018) "Dunhuang Art." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion.

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(2017) Georgetown-IDP North American Silk Road Project, co-authored with Susan Whitfield and Miki Morita

by Michelle C. Wang 王慧蘭, Susan Whitfield, and Miki Morita

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(2016) "Introduction,” co-authored with Wei-cheng Lin. Ars Orientalis 46: 7-12. In themed issue "Performative Agency of Buddhist Art and Architecture in Asia," co-edited by Michelle C. Wang and Wei-cheng Lin

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(2016) “Early Chinese Buddhist Sculptures as Animate Bodies and Living Presences.” Ars Orientalis 46: 13-38. In themed issue "Performative Agency of Buddhist Art and Architecture in Asia," co-edited by Michelle C. Wang and Wei-cheng Lin

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(2016) “The Thousand-armed Mañjuśrī at Dunhuang and Paired Images in Buddhist Visual Culture.” Archives of Asian Art 66.1: 81-105

The Thousand-armed Mañ juśrī is an enigmatic form of the bodhisattva that appeared primarily in t... more The Thousand-armed Mañ juśrī is an enigmatic form of the bodhisattva that appeared primarily in the Mogao cave shrines in northwestern China. There, the deity was nearly always paired with the Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara on opposite walls or on opposite sides of a doorway. Curiously, this pairing is absent from any of the Buddhist sutras associated with the two. This article argues that texts were a starting point rather than an end point for the establishment of the Thousand-armed Mañ juśrī's iconographic characteristics, and that the pairing of the two deities is crucial for understanding the gaps between the deity's textual description and its visual representation.

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(2013) “Changing Conceptions of “Maṇḍala” in Tang China: Ritual and the Role of Images.” Material Religion 9.2: 186-217

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(2014) “Buddhist Art and Architecture of East Asia” in Mario Poceski, ed., The Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism (Blackwell Companion to Religion series). Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 424-443

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Books by Michelle C. Wang 王慧蘭

(forthcoming 2023) Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture. Leiden and Boston: Brill

Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture, 2023

Silk Road studies has often treated material artifacts and manuscripts separately. This interdisc... more Silk Road studies has often treated material artifacts and manuscripts separately. This interdisciplinary volume expands the scope of transcultural transmission, questions what constituted a â€oebook,â€ and explores networks of circulation shared by material artifacts and manuscripts. Featuring new research in English by international scholars in Buddhist studies, art history, and literary studies, the essays in Beyond the Silk and Book Roads chart new and exciting directions in Silk Road studies.

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