Yang Wang

Publications and Presentations

“Representations of Communist Mobility in Post-WWII China-Italy Cultural Exchange.” Co-authored with Martina Tanga. In Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy, edited by Gaoheng Zhang and Valentina Pedone, 135–169. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 

“’Are They Good Artists?’ Context and Asymmetry in Postwar Sino–Italian Artistic Exchanges.” In Art and Modernism in Socialist China: Unexplored International Encounters, 1949–1979, edited by Shuyu Kong, Julia Andrews, and Shengtian Zheng, 72–89. New York: Routledge, 2024.

“Exhibiting Communist Italy Abroad: The 1956 Artist Delegation to the People's Republic of China.” Co-authored with Martina Tanga for the special issue “Arte e Comunismo in Italia 1943-1964,” edited by Michele Dantini, Luca La Rovere, Emanuele Pellegrini. Predella Journal of Visual Arts, no. 52 (2022): 143–157; XXV–XXXIII.

“On Its Own Terms: Urban Growth and the Arts in Kathmandu, Nepal,” Research Papers, Vol. 12 (Southeast Asia). Seoul: Asia Culture Center, 2023.

“Good Girls and the Good Earth: Shi Lu’s Peasant Women and Socialist Allegory in the Early PRC.” China Perspectives, no. 4 (2021): 61–71.

“Putting New Wine in Old Bottles: Art and Politics in the Maoist Period.” In Fantastic Brush: 20th Century Chinese Ink Arts from the Kessler Collection, 20–27. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2021.

“Envisioning the Third World: Modern Art and Diplomacy in Maoist China.” ARTMargins 8, no. 2 (2019): 31–54. 

“A Chinese Artist in Delhi: Shi Lu and the Art of Diplomacy.” Post (Museum of Modern Art online project). 2017.