Faculty News: Haicheng Wang

Art History Assistant Professor Haicheng Wang was elected to the board of the Shelby White-Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications in March 2010. On 18 November 2010, he gave a lecture titled “Why is calligraphy the most admired art form in China?” at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Wang has submitted a chapter, “Inscriptions from Zhongshan: Chinese Texts and the Archaeology of Agency,” for a volume entitled Early Writing and Agency in Archaeology that has been peer-reviewed and is set to be published by the University of Colorado Press. He has been contracted to contribute a chapter titled “Writing and the City in Early China” to The Cambridge World History, Volume III: A World with Cities, 4000 BCE – 1200 CE. He will also co-author a section in this volume titled “Comparative Aspects of Cities and Record-Keeping.” In late March 2011, Wang will present his preliminary research on this topic at a conference titled “A World of Cities” being held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. On 01 April, he will be a discussant for a panel titled “China and Beyond: Exchange of Material Cultures.” This is part of a joint conference of the Association for Asian Studies and the International Convention of Asia Scholars. Wang is a member of the Simpson Center for the Humanities Society of Scholars for 2010-2011.