Dr. Lianming Wang

CV

Lianming Wang ist derzeit Gastprofessor am Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut. Er hat an der Universität Würzburg (Wiss. Mitarbeiter, 2009-11) und der Universität Heidelberg (Wiss. Assistent, 2014-21) gelehrt. Er war Art Histories Fellow (2018/19) in der Forschungsgruppe „Kunstgeschichten und Ästhetische Praktiken“ am Berliner Forum Transregionale Studien (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz). Seine Forschungsgebiete umfassen globale Begegnungen von Kunst und Kultur in der Frühen Neuzeit sowie die künstlerische Praxis und Materialität in Bezug auf transterritoriale Tiere. Wang ist der Autor von Jesuitenerbe in Peking: Sakralbauten und transkulturelle Räume 1600-1800 (2020) und hat eine Anzahl von Workshops und Konferenzen zum sino-europäischen Austausch organisiert, darunter Reframing Chinese Objects: Practices of Collecting and Display in Europe and the Islamic World, 1400-1800 (Mitveranstalter) und Before the Silk Road: Eurasian Interactions in the First Millennium BC (Hauptveranstalter). Wang ist der Träger des Klaus-Georg- und Sigrid-Hengstberger-Preises (2018) und des Akademiepreises (2019) der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Publikationen (Auswahl)

• Jesuitenerbe in Peking: Sakralbauten und transkulturelle Räume, 1600–1800 (Heidelberg Transcultural Studies 5), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020.
• “Sacred Images and Space of the Jesuit Churches in Beijing,” in: K.K. Yeo (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Bible in China, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 807–825.
• “How Water Became Landscape: Fountains and Hydraulic Devices in Early Modern China,” in: Uwe Fleckner, Yih-Fen Hua, Shai-Shu Tzeng (eds.), Memorial Landscape. World Images East and West (Mnemosyne 6. Schriften des Internationalen Warburg-Kollegs), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, 193–215.
• “From Beijing to La Flèche: The Transcultural Moment of Jesuit Garden Spaces,” in: Anna Grasskamp, Monica Juneja (eds.), EurAsian Matters: China, Europe and the Transcultural Objects (Transcultural Research: Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context), Stuttgart: Springer, 2018, 101–124.
• “The Last Gift from Beijing: Jesuit Botanists and the European Quest for Chinese Plants,” in: Sulla Via del Catai 22 (2020) – Paolo Maurizio (ed.), Special issue “Flora e giardini: influssi e suggestioni nei secoli tra Cina e Occidente,” 126-155.

FRIAS Projekt

Transgressive Animals, Territorial Locality, and the Qing Global Histories

Animal enjoyed a momentous status in China’s early-modern histories as both the subject and object of long-distance commercial interactions and vibrant global encounters. Defined as “transgressive animals,” ranging from Central Asian steeds and peacocks to Mediterranean coral and hornbill skull, shagreen, pangolin scale, and numerous feather tributes from South Asia, their trans-territorial and indeed global movement deconstructed existing ecological, sociobiological, and even geopolitical regimes. This interdisciplinary project seeks to explore China’s early-modern global histories through an analytical “animal lens.” Approaching four themes connected to transgressive animals – space and built environment, monumentality, materiality, and knowledge –, it attempts to discuss the wide array of agencies that animals performed in shaping economic, diplomatic and artistic connections in terms of their types of movement – physical, conceptual, commercial and intellectual. To be specific, the project explores the multi-layered copying and translation of images, issues of collecting and display as well as the entangled histories of material practices that relate to transgressive animals.