Anita Xiaoming is currently working on a project cataloguing and researching a significant private collection of traditional Chinese wood-block prints in Europe. The collection includes over a hundred items which date from the late Ming and the early Qing periods, to the end of the last imperial dynasty in the early 20th century.
Research Projects
鈥� Undertaking the project 鈥淎siatica and Chinoiserie at the Saxon Court鈥�of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), Germany, supported by the Alexander Von Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellowship Foundation,2015-2018.
鈥� Undertaking the project 鈥淐hinese Popular Prints in the Collections of Europe鈥�, funded by the China Scholarship Council, 2014.
鈥� Part of the project 鈥淭he Chinese Woodblock Pictures Data Base Founded鈥� of the National Social Science Fund, 2014.
鈥� Part of the project 鈥淐hinese Woodblock Prints Artists Oral history research鈥� of the China Folk Literature and Art Association, 2008- 2011.
鈥� Undertaking the project 鈥淵i De Yuan Paper Cutting research in Tianjin鈥� of the China Folk Literature and Art Association, 2009.
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Exhibitions Curated
- Exhibition- 鈥淐hinese New Year Prints in Russia from 1906-2006鈥�, Beiyang Art Gallery of Tianjin University, 2009.
- Exhibition- 鈥淵i De Yuan Paper Cutting鈥�, Beiyang Art Gallery of Tianjin University, 2009.
- Exhibition- 鈥淏ringing Intangible Culture into the College Campus- Paper Cutting Show鈥� in Bei Yang Art Gallery of Tianjin University, 2010.
- Exhibition- 鈥淲omen Figures Cross Media- Chinese and Japanese women figures on porcelains photographs and popular prints in the collections of the SKD,鈥� in the Residence Castel of the SKD Dresden Germany, 2017.
Anita Xiaoming Wang, 鈥淭he idealised Lives of Women: Visions of Beauty in Chinese Popular Prints of the Qing Dynasty鈥�, Arts Asiatiques vol.73 (2018), 97-116pp.
Anita Xiaoming Wang, 鈥�European Pictorial Techniques in Early Qing Suzhou Prints鈥�, The colour Print in China 1600-1800 A.D., Ed. By Anne Farrer and Professor Kevin Mcloughlin. (Submitted for peer-review)
Cordula Bischoff, Anita Xiaoming Wang, "Early Asiatica and Chinoiserie at the Saxon court ", Dresden. Europa.Welt, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2017, 20-21pp.
Bischoff, Cordula, Wang, Anita Xiaoming, 鈥極nline Catalogue of Chinese and Chinoiserie Collections of the Dresden State Art Collections鈥� (Online publication, forthcoming)
Anita Wang Xiaoming, 鈥淐hinoiserie Taste on the Images of Chinese Women Figures- The Influence on Artistic Creation by the Cross-Cultural Transformation of Europe and China in the 17th and 18th Centuries鈥�, Selected Essays of the International Conference of 鈥淎rtistic exchanges as cultural transfers between China and Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries鈥�, Lille University France. (In preparation)
Anita Wang Xiaoming, 鈥淐hinese Woodblock New Year Prints and Paintings Used as Wallpaper in Europe in the 18th Century鈥�, International Conference of Chinese Wallpaper: trade, technique and taste, The National Trust House, London. (Publication in progress)
Selected Publications in Chinese:
Wang Xiaoming, 2011: [Chinese New Year Pictures Artists Oral History, Zhuxianzhen New Year Picture Guo Taiyun, YinGuoquan], Tianjin University Press.
Wang Xiaoming & Zhu Shenghui, 2011: [Chinese New Year Pictures Artists Oral History, Xinjiang New Year Picture: Guo Quansheng, Linfen New Year Picture: Ning Jixian], Tianjin University Press.
Tang Na, Wang Xiaoming, 2011: [Chinese New Year Pictures Artists Oral History, Fo Shan New Year Picture: Feng Bingtang and Zhang Zhou New Year Picture: Yan Shiguo], Tianjin University Publication Press.
Mao Ruiheng, Wang Xiaoming & Pu Jiao ,2011: [Chinese New Year Pictures Artists Oral History, Tantou New Year Picture: Zhong Haixian and Liangping New Year Picture: Xu Jiahui, Tianjin University Press.
Feng Jicai & Wang Xiaoming, 2009: Xiaoshide huayang Jinbaozhai Yi Deyuan Jianzhi [Disappeared Patterns: Paper Cuttings of Yi Deyuan in Jinbaozhai],Beijing: Zhonghua Press. 2009.