Qianshen Bai to Lecture on Chinese Calligraphy
Worcester, MA - Assumption College HUMANARTS presents lecturer Qianshen Bai on Thursday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the La Maison Francaise auditorium. Bai’s lecture is entitled, “Chinese Calligraphy in its Cultural Context.”
Bai earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Peking University in 1982, teaching the history of political institutions in China, before heading to Rutgers University in 1986 to work on a Ph.D. in comparative politics. He planned to return to China to teach political science, but abruptly terminated that track in 1989 because of the Tiananmen Square event, returning to his earlier love of art — having studied Chinese art since his youth and won a national calligraphy competition while an undergraduate. A University Fellowship at Yale led him to an art history Ph.D. in 1996. He joined the Boston University faculty in 1997 as an assistant professor of Asian art. Bai is the current director of undergraduate studies in Boston University’s Department of Art History. For more information about Bai, please visit http://www.bu.edu/ah/baicv.html.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Frank Corbin in the Art/Music Department at (508) 767-7508 or fcorbin@assumption.edu.
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