The little-known history of a major cultural encounter: a study of the reception of
Chinese painting in the West and its artistic resonances, which underwent profound changes between the 19th century and the 1930s.
Chang-Ming Peng is an associate professor of history and a university professor of contemporary art history and museology. She is the author of publications on 19th and 20th century Western painting, on artistic exchanges and transfers between the West and
China, on a comparative approach to Chinese and Western art, and on subjects related to
museology.