Faculty

Wu Hong
Assistant Professor
Buddhist Art, Cross-cultural interactions, Chinese art of the premodern period
E-mail:
wu_hong@fudan.edu.cn
Contact information:
Fudan University, Philosophy of Art and Art History 220 Handan Road, Shanghai, China 200433
Research Areas

PUBLICATIONS 

Monograph:

Rethinking Asuka Sculpture – A Revised Conception of Buddhist Spread in East Asia, 538-710. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

 

Book Chapter:

“Magnifying Statuettes: Reconsidering the Artistic Production of the Earliest Buddhist Statues in Japan.” In Dynamics of Interregional Exchange in East Asian Buddhist Art, 5th-13th Century, edited by Dorothy Wong. Wilmington: Vernon Press. 2022

 

Journal Articles:

“Anchoring the Sacred in the Mundane: Construction of the Great Buddha Bend in Baodingshan, Dazu”, Archives of Asian Artvol. 74 (2024), issue 2, pp. 129-151.

“The Neglected Dress—Re‑Evaluating the Iconography of the ‘True Visage’ (Zhenrong) Mañjuśrī”. Religions 15:432 (2024).

7-8世紀佛教肉身信仰的興起芻議》,《佛教文化研究》2025年第14

《汉地偶像崇拜传统与佛教入华的关系再谈》,《世界宗教文化》2024年第4

《从法身到肉身初唐佛像样式转变的观念背景试论》,《复旦学报》2023年第1期《汉地二至六世纪佛像神圣观念新探》,《复旦学报》2021年第5

《汉地早期造像记的发展从印度的角度观察》,《艺术学研究》20204

《飞鸟时期止利造像制作背景的再考关于传播渠道对于图像认知的影响》,《艺术史研究》2020年第23

《飞鸟前期佛像服饰问题研究》,《东南文化》2019年第2


CONFERENCES

“The Development of Chinese Donative Formulae from the Third to the Fifth Century: Through an Indic Looking Glass”

Session organizer and presenter for the panel “Through Contact to Construct: Translation of Texts, Images and Objects in Pre-modern Asia”, at AAS-in-Asia, online, 2020/8/29

 

“The Spread and Institutionalization of the Practice of Image Making as a Means of Accruing Merits: An Epigraphic Perspective” 

Presenter at the Glorisun 2020 International and Intensive Program on Buddhism with Princeton University, online, 2020/7/10

 

“Decoding History in Visual Forms: The Context for the Production of Tori Statues” (in Japanese)

Presenter at the conference “East Asia Constructed from Buddhist Art—A Perspective from the Korean Peninsula”, University of Tokyo, 2019/7/4

 

“Medium and Metamorphosis: Reconsidering the Artistic Production of the Tori-style Statues” 

Session organizer and presenter for the panel “Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation: East Asian Buddhist Perspectives” at Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Denver, United States. 2019/3/23

 

“A Study of the Dress Problems of the Earliest Buddhist Statues in Japan”

Presenter at European Association for Chinese Studies Biennial Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2018/8/30

 

“The Depiction of Monastic Robes on Buddhist Statues of the Asuka Period” (in Chinese)

Presenter at Buddhism in the Northern Dynasties, Tang and Song and its social context – Shandong Linqu Bailong temple ruin archaeology conference, Shandong, China. 2017/8/14


Research Areas

PUBLICATIONS 

Monograph:

Rethinking Asuka Sculpture – A Revised Conception of Buddhist Spread in East Asia, 538-710. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

 

Book Chapter:

“Magnifying Statuettes: Reconsidering the Artistic Production of the Earliest Buddhist Statues in Japan.” In Dynamics of Interregional Exchange in East Asian Buddhist Art, 5th-13th Century, edited by Dorothy Wong. Wilmington: Vernon Press. 2022

 

Journal Articles:

“Anchoring the Sacred in the Mundane: Construction of the Great Buddha Bend in Baodingshan, Dazu”, Archives of Asian Artvol. 74 (2024), issue 2, pp. 129-151.

“The Neglected Dress—Re‑Evaluating the Iconography of the ‘True Visage’ (Zhenrong) Mañjuśrī”. Religions 15:432 (2024).

7-8世紀佛教肉身信仰的興起芻議》,《佛教文化研究》2025年第14

《汉地偶像崇拜传统与佛教入华的关系再谈》,《世界宗教文化》2024年第4

《从法身到肉身初唐佛像样式转变的观念背景试论》,《复旦学报》2023年第1期《汉地二至六世纪佛像神圣观念新探》,《复旦学报》2021年第5

《汉地早期造像记的发展从印度的角度观察》,《艺术学研究》20204

《飞鸟时期止利造像制作背景的再考关于传播渠道对于图像认知的影响》,《艺术史研究》2020年第23

《飞鸟前期佛像服饰问题研究》,《东南文化》2019年第2


CONFERENCES

“The Development of Chinese Donative Formulae from the Third to the Fifth Century: Through an Indic Looking Glass”

Session organizer and presenter for the panel “Through Contact to Construct: Translation of Texts, Images and Objects in Pre-modern Asia”, at AAS-in-Asia, online, 2020/8/29

 

“The Spread and Institutionalization of the Practice of Image Making as a Means of Accruing Merits: An Epigraphic Perspective” 

Presenter at the Glorisun 2020 International and Intensive Program on Buddhism with Princeton University, online, 2020/7/10

 

“Decoding History in Visual Forms: The Context for the Production of Tori Statues” (in Japanese)

Presenter at the conference “East Asia Constructed from Buddhist Art—A Perspective from the Korean Peninsula”, University of Tokyo, 2019/7/4

 

“Medium and Metamorphosis: Reconsidering the Artistic Production of the Tori-style Statues” 

Session organizer and presenter for the panel “Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation: East Asian Buddhist Perspectives” at Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Denver, United States. 2019/3/23

 

“A Study of the Dress Problems of the Earliest Buddhist Statues in Japan”

Presenter at European Association for Chinese Studies Biennial Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2018/8/30

 

“The Depiction of Monastic Robes on Buddhist Statues of the Asuka Period” (in Chinese)

Presenter at Buddhism in the Northern Dynasties, Tang and Song and its social context – Shandong Linqu Bailong temple ruin archaeology conference, Shandong, China. 2017/8/14


Research Areas

RESEARCH AFFLIATIONS AND AWARDS

 

Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, Japan

Visiting Scholar from May – October 2019, funded by The Japan Foundation Scholarship