Schedule of the Conference:

Friday, 18 June
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.45 Welcome: Jos Hackforth-Jones, Director, and Anne Farrer

Session 1: Historical introduction and late Ming printing
Chair: Clarissa von Spee (The British Museum)

10.00-10.40 Cynthia Brokaw (Brown University)
Color printing in Late Imperial Print Culture
10.45-11.15 Thomas Ebrey (University of Washington)
Printers, Painters, and Poets of the Ten Bamboo Studio Collection of Paintings and Calligraphy
11.20-11.30 Break
11.30-12.05 Suzanne Wright (University of Tennessee)
The Language of Letter Paper
12.05-12.35 Hiromitsu Kobayashi (Sophia University)
Literati Tastes Meet Popular Drama: The Multi-coloured Woodblock Illustrations of Min Qiji in the 1640 Printed Edition of The Romance of the Western Chamber
12.40-13.00 Panel discussion
13.00-14.15 Lunch

Session 2: Painting and printing in the late Ming
Chair: Shane McCausland (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

14.15-14.45 Meng-ching Ma (National Tsing-hua University)
Learning from Painting and Prints: the development and influence of Shizhuzhai shuhuapu
14.50-15.20 Anne Burkus-Chasson (University of Illinois)
Colouring by the Book: Chen Hongshou’s Sixteen Views of a Hermit’s Life and Its Readers
15.25-16.00 Tea

Session 3: Technology of colour printing
Chair: Anne Farrer (Sotheby’s Institute of Art – London)

16.00-16.30 J. S. Edgren (Princeton University)
Toward an understanding of Late-Ming colour-printing technology
16.35-17.05 Wang Chao (China National Academy of Fine Arts)
Paper translated and delivered by David Barker (The Muban Educational Trust)
Colour pigments used in traditional Chinese printmaking
17.10-17.30 Panel discussion
18.45-20.15 Reception for exhibition Dreaming of Antiquity: colour woodblock prints by Wang Chao at Sotheby’s Institute of Art – London

Saturday, 19 June
9.00 Registration and coffee

Session 4: Prints made in Suzhou in the eighteenth century
Chair: Hiromitsu Kobayashi (Sophia University)

10.00-10.40 Ellen Johnston Laing (University of Michigan)
Eighteenth-century Suzhou Prints and the Iconography of Wealth
10.45-11.15 Christer von der Burg (The Muban Educational Trust)
The Dings we know and the Dings we do not know
11.20-11.30 Break
11.30-12.00 Kevin McLoughlin (National Museums of Scotland)
Poetry and Excess: Illustrating Elite Culture in Suzhou Colour Prints from the Hans Sloane Collection
12.05-12.35 Cheng-hua Wang (Academia Sinica)
Some Observations on the Business Practices of Eighteenth Century Suzhou Prints
12.40-13.00 Panel discussion
13.00-14.15 Lunch

Session 5: Rubbings and inventoried collections
Chair: J. S. Edgren (Princeton University)

14.15-14.45 Nathalie Monnet (Bibliothèque Nationale)
The added value of colour in Chinese rubbings
14.50-15.20 Cordula Bischoff (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden/Technische Universität Dresden)
East Asian works in August the Strong’s print collection: the inventory of 1738
15.25-16.15 Tea
16.15-16.45 Anne Farrer (Sotheby’s Institute of Art – London)
Chinese sheet prints in the Hans Sloane collection: acquisition, storage and reassessment
16.50-17.20 Panel discussion
17.20-17.30 Ellen Johnston Laing (University of Michigan)
Concluding remarks