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At the recent SFU Celebration of Authors, professor Shuyu Kong celebrated the launch of two new publications, which were the culmination of her international scholarly collaborations. The first is a co-edited volume on art and modernism in China, and the second translates a reflective study of Sino-Mexican art exchanges in the 20th century.

The co-director of SFU鈥檚 David Lam Centre for International Communication, Kong has been actively engaged in research on global modernism from a Chinese studies perspective. Since 2020, she has collaborated with Shengtian Zheng, an emeritus professor of the China Academy of Art, and currently adjunct director of the Institute of Asian Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery and a research associate at the David Lam Centre. They conceived an innovative workshop on Art and Modernism in Socialist China, which examined artistic dialogues between China, the West, and Latin America from the 1950s to the 1970s. Originally planned as an in-person event hosted by David Lam Centre, the workshop transitioned online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, expanding from eight to fifteen presenters from North America, Europe, China, and Australia. It attracted over 200 attendees鈥攊ncluding art students, curators, and scholars worldwide. The workshop also fostered further collaboration with Julia Andrews, a distinguished professor at Ohio State University and a leading authority on modern Chinese art history.

These efforts culminated in the publication of (Routledge, 2024). This pioneering volume is the first to examine China鈥檚 socialist art history through the lens of modernism, modernity, and global interactions. Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and innovative critical frameworks, the book challenges conventional narratives by revealing a more pluralistic and multi-layered history of modernist art. It also highlights how, even at the height of the Cold War, cultural exchanges continued to pierce the 鈥榖amboo curtain鈥� through art, literature, and other creative forms.

In 2022, Kong also conducted research at the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, where she explored the role of 鈥渁rt diplomacy鈥� in China鈥檚 early reform and opening-up era. Her paper on Canadian and Australian art exhibitions in China during the mid and late 1970s was later included in the above edited volume and presented at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia (CSAA).

In recognition of her contributions, Kong was appointed an Honourary Professor at the China Studies Centre for the 2023鈥�2025 term. This affiliation also facilitated her collaboration with Colin Hawes in translating and editing Cambria Press, 2024), a reflective study written by Shengtian Zheng. In her Introduction to this 鈥渉ighly significant and evocative twentieth-century transcultural dialogue,鈥� Kong emphasizes the importance of such translation projects that bridge Chinese and international art scholarship. The book reveals the profound impact of Mexican murals and visual art on contemporary Chinese art, offering fresh perspectives on the evolution of Chinese artistic movements beyond Soviet/Russian socialist realism.

Both texts contribute valuable scholarship to the underexplored intersections of global art history鈥攁n area that Kong continues to explore through her current research on Chinese women artists who travelled and studied in Europe between the two World Wars.