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Research Interest(s): History of Chinese Art in the 20th Century, Nature and Landscape in Modern Art and contemporary, Amateur artists, Exhibition and museology of 20th and 21st century art, International circulation of knowledge
Discipline(s): History
Research Group(s): Humanities. Lives, Materialities, Representations
Biography
Liwei Xu graduated from Paris I University Panthéon-Sorbonne with a MA in Art history (2015) and also a MA in Mediation of Contemporary art from Paris VIII University Vincennes-Saint-Denis (2016). She specialised in the representation of landscapes in Chinese contemporary art from 1989 to 2015, and the multidisciplinary exhibitions of the Pompidou Centre.
Her PhD: Collectif Wuming’s Chinese landscape paintings and their quest for nature and spontaneity (1964--1989). She studies the relationship between nature as history and the Chinese modern landscape painting since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Thesis Supervision
Laurence Bertrand Dorléac
Teaching
- 2024–2025: Lecture course (third year), Université Picardie Jules Verne: “History of the Landscape.”
- 2024–2025: Seminar (third year), Université Picardie Jules Verne: “Methodology in Art History.”
- 2024–2025: Teaching Assistant, Sciences Po Paris: “Introduction to African History since 1800.”
AWARDS
2024: Fu Lei Publication Grant Program, Embassy of France in China.
publications
Recent Publications
- Xu, Liwei. “In Search of Smells in History and of Beings and Things Without Traces” (寻觅历史中的气味与没有痕迹的人与物), in A History of Smell – 16th Century to Early 19th Century (气味的文明史——16世纪至19世纪初), Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2025, pp. 1–11.
- Muchembled, Robert. A History of Smell – 16th Century to Early 19th Century (气味的文明史——16世纪至19世纪初), translated by Liwei Xu, Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2025.
- Xu, Liwei. “What Fatigue Tells Us Today,” in Spring Out of Tiredness (Jaillir de la fatigue), exhibition catalogue, Paris: Mémoire de l’avenir, 2024, pp. 4–13.
