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Guolong Lai, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology, earned his MA in Archaeology and Paleography at Beijing University, and PhD in Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has worked at the National Museum of Chinese History in Beijing, the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, received a Pre-doctoral Fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC and Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University and at Stanford University. He has published articles on excavated bamboo and silk manuscripts and diagrams, archaeology of death and burial in early China, early Chinese religion, Chinese bronze art, history of connoisseurship and heritage conservation in modern China.
His teaching and research interests include Chinese art and archaeology, the archaeology of writing, early Chinese calligraphy, and Asian monuments and historic preservation. Currently he is working on a book-length study of early Chinese religion based primarily on recently excavated bamboo and silk manuscripts, funerary arts and artifacts dating to the Warring States, Qin, and Han periods (from the fifth century BCE to the third century CE), and editing a symposium volume “Collectors, Collections, and Collecting Arts of China: Histories and Challenges.”
Courses:
ARH 3552 Early Chinese Art and Archaeology
ARH 3555 Late Chinese Art and Culture
ARH 4533 Asian Monuments and Heritage Conservation
ARH 4559 Archaeology of Death in Ancient China
ARH 4930 Art and Ritual in Early China
ARH 4930 Monuments and Memory in Asian Art
ARH 4931 Art in Tombs
ARH 6918 The Archaeology of Writing
ARH 6819 Western Approaches to Early Chinese Art
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