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Fellowship Project
Dr. Chen Yafei spent eight months (January – August 2014) at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, U.S.A. where she received training in exhibition curatorship, participated in education programs and conducted research on the gallery’s Chinese painting collection.
Biography
With research focuses on Qing calligraphy and the history of Hong Kong art, Dr. Chen Yafei received her Ph. D. degree in Chinese Art History from the Department of Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008 and later worked as a Post-doctoral Researcher. She joined the Zhejiang University Museum of Art and Archaeology in 2011, taking part in the set-up of the museum. Since the museum’s establishment in 2019, she has been focusing on museum education, promotion, and management work.
Recent Development and Achievement
Selected Publication(s)
Dr. Chen Yafei has published a number of journal articles on Chinese calligraphy in the 18th century and Hong Kong calligraphy, including “A Study of the Families of Bi Yuan and Bi Long”, “The Practice of Stele- and Model-calligraphy in the Qianlong and Jiaqing Periods: The Case of Qian Yong”, “The Hong Kong Branch of the Guangdong Chinese Painting Society and Related Problems”, “From Bronze-and-Stone Studies to Stele Calligraphy: In the Perspective of the Academic Circle of the Late 18th Century” and the following books:
