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Fellowship Project

Dr. Eileen Lam spent twelve months (November 2010 – November 2011) at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, U.S.A., where she studied the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein archaic Chinese jades collection and updated its documentation on the Institute’s intranet and online database.

Biography

Dr. Eileen Lam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts at The Education University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in Chinese art history from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her doctoral research focused on a lavish group of jades discovered in princely tombs of the second century BC in southeastern China. Dr. Lam teaches courses in the fields of material culture, and history of Chinese art. Her current research focuses on tomb art and the materiality of objects in ancient China. She recently has carried out different research projects and published on ritual object and its representations of Han China.