Position:

Curator of Chinese Art, Ashmolean Museum; University Lecturer (part-time) in Chinese art; Fellow of St. Hugh's College

Faculty / College Address:

Ashmolean Museum

Email:

shelagh.vainker@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Arts of the Northern Song dynasty
• Modern Chinese painting

Current Projects:

• Northern Song Ceramics

Courses Taught:

• Introduction to Chinese art
• Modern Chinese painting

Recent Publications:

• Catalogue of Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford, 2000)
• "Luxuries or not? consumption of silk and porcelain in eighteenth-century China" in M. Berg and E. Eger, eds., Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2003
• Chinese Silk: A Cultural History, London (British Museum Press), 2004
• Pu Quan and his Generation: Imperial Painters of Twentieth-century China (Oxford, 2004)
• "Chinesische Malerei der Gegenwart in London, 1935/Modern Chinese Painting in London, 1935" in J. Birnie-Danzker ed. Shanghai Modern, Stuttgart (Hatje-Cantz), 2004, pp118-23