How did zhu yuanzhang die
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Writer Conversations #9
Wu Hung
Wu Hung holds the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professorship at the Department of Art History and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, US, where he is also the director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and the Adjunct Curator at the Smart Museum. An elected member of the American Academy of Art and Science and awarded with an Honorary Degree from Harvard University, he sits on many international committees including Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council, and chairs the Academic Committee of the OCAT Museum Group. Wu Hung has received many awards for his publications and academic services, including the 2018 Distinguished Scholar Award and the 2022 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art, both from the College Art Association of America (CAA).
Wu Hung’s research interests include both traditional and contemporary art, and he has published many books and curated many exhibitions in these two fields. His interdisciplinary interests have led him to experiment
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Wu Hung
Chinese-American art historian (born 1945)
For the landscape painter, see Wu Hong.
In this Chinese name, the family name is Wu.
Wu Hung (Chinese: 巫鸿; pinyin: Wū Hóng) is an art historian and Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago.[1] He has also taught at Harvard University and worked as an adjunct faculty curator at the Smart Museum of Art.[2] He currently serves as the director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago.[1]
Early life and education
Wu Hung was born in Leshan, Sichuan China in 1945. His father, Wu Baosan, a renowned Chinese economist, met his mother, Sun Jiaxiu, a specialist in Western drama studies, when they were studying in the US in the 1930s.[3] After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Wu and his parents moved to Beijing, where his father worked as the Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and where his mother taught at the C
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Hongwu Emperor
Emperor of China from 1368 to 1398
| Hongwu Emperor 洪武帝 | |
|---|---|
A Seated Portrait of Ming Emperor Taizu, c. 1377 by an unknown artist from the Ming dynasty. Now located in the National Palace Museum, Taipei | |
| Reign | 23 January 1368[a] – 24 June 1398 |
| Enthronement | 23 January 1368 |
| Successor | Jianwen Emperor |
| Reign | 1368–1398 |
| Predecessor | Toghon Temür (Yuan dynasty) |
| Successor | Jianwen Emperor |
| Born | Zhu Chongba (朱重八) 21 October 1328[b] Hao Prefecture, Henan Jiangbei (present-day Fengyang County, Anhui) |
| Died | 24 June 1398(1398-06-24) (aged 69) Ming Palace, Zhili (present-day Nanjing) |
| Burial | 30 June 1398 Xiao Mausoleum, Nanjing |
| Consort | Empress Xiaocigao (m. 1352; died 1382) |
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