Anita Xiaoming is currently working on a project cataloguing and researching a significant private collection of traditional Chinese wood-block prints in Europe. The collection includes over a hundred items which date from the late Ming and the early Qing periods, to the end of the last imperial dynasty in the early 20th century.
Research Projects
鈥� Undertaking the project 鈥淎siatica and Chinoiserie at the Saxon Court鈥�of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), Germany, supported by the Alexander Von Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellowship Foundation,2015-2018.
鈥� Undertaking the project 鈥淐hinese Popular Prints in the Collections of Europe鈥�, funded by the China Scholarship Council, 2014.
鈥� Part of the project 鈥淭he Chinese Woodblock Pictures Data Base Founded鈥� of the National Social Science Fund, 2014.
鈥� Part of the project 鈥淐hinese Woodblock Prints Artists Oral history research鈥� of the China Folk Literature and Art Association, 2008- 2011.
鈥� Undertaking the project 鈥淵i De Yuan Paper Cutting research in Tianjin鈥� of the China Folk Literature and Art Association, 2009.
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Exhibitions Curated
- Exhibition- 鈥淐hinese New Year Prints in Russia from 1906-2006鈥�, Beiyang Art Gallery of Tianjin University, 2009.
- Exhibition- 鈥淵i De Yuan Paper Cutting鈥�, Beiyang Art Gallery of Tianjin University, 2009.
- Exhibition- 鈥淏ringing Intangible Culture into the College Campus- Paper Cutting Show鈥� in Bei Yang Art Gallery of Tianjin University, 2010.
- Exhibition- 鈥淲omen Figures Cross Media- Chinese and Japanese women figures on porcelains photographs and popular prints in the collections of the SKD,鈥� in the Residence Castel of the SKD Dresden Germany, 2017.
Selected Publications in English, German, and Japanes
Wang, Anita Xiaoming. 鈥淭he Exchange of Art, Images, and Artistic Techniques Between China and Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries.鈥� International Communication of Chinese Culture 8, no. 3 (2021): 103鈥�119.
Wang, Anita Xiaoming. 鈥淭he Idealised Lives of Women: Visions of Beauty in Chinese Popular Prints of the Qing Dynasty.鈥� Arts Asiatiques 73 (2018): 97鈥�116.
Wang, Anita Xiaoming. 鈥淓xploring the Jesuit Role in Early Qing Suzhou Prints.鈥� In The Colour Print in China 1600鈥�1800, edited by Anne Farrer and Kevin McLoughlin, 179鈥�190. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
Wang, Anita Xiaoming. 鈥淎n Analysis of 18th-Century European Collections of Suzhou Woodblock Prints Imitating Western Brushwork.鈥� In Suzhou Woodblock Prints, edited by Takayuki Aoki, Noriyuki Itakura, and Hiromitsu Kobayashi, 284鈥�303. Tokyo: Benseisha, 2024.
Wang, Anita Xiaoming. 鈥淗olzschnittkunst in China.鈥� In La Chine: Die China-Sammlung des 18. Jahrhunderts im Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinett, edited by Cordula Bischoff and Petra Kuhlmann-Hodick, 29鈥�38. Dresden: Sandstein, 2022.
Wang, Anita Xiaoming. 鈥淭raditionelle chinesische Motive und ihre Symbolik.鈥� In La Chine: Die China-Sammlung des 18. Jahrhunderts im Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinett, edited by Cordula Bischoff and Petra Kuhlmann-Hodick, 39鈥�48. Dresden: Sandstein, 2022.
Wang, Anita Xiaoming. 鈥淧opul盲re Grafik: Chinas Exportschlager.鈥� In La Chine: Die China-Sammlung des 18. Jahrhunderts im Dresdner Kupferstich-Kabinett, edited by Cordula Bischoff and Petra Kuhlmann-Hodick, 49鈥�60. Dresden: Sandstein, 2022.
Bischoff, Cordula, and Anita Xiaoming Wang. 鈥淓arly Asiatica and Chinoiserie at the Saxon Court.鈥� In Dresden. Europa. Welt, 20鈥�21. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2017.
Bischoff, Cordula, and Anita Xiaoming Wang. Online Catalogue La Chine. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2023. Online听
Selected Publications in Chinese
Wang, Xiaoming. 鈥淪tudy on Gusu Woodblock Prints in Western Style in the Collections of Europe in the 18th Century.鈥� Nianhua Yanjiu, no. 4 (2016): 29-42.
Wang, Xiaoming. 鈥淪tudy on Gusu Woodblock Prints of the Early Qing Dynasty in the Collections of Europe.鈥� Artco China 鈥� Ancient Art 47 (2018): 116-119.
Wang, Xiaoming. 鈥淭he Rise and Fall, and Transformation of Suzhou Prints in the Style of Western Engraving: A Case Study of European Collections of Suzhou Prints.鈥� Art Collection and Appreciation: Etched Copper and Woodcuts 18 (2021): 83鈥�110.
Wang, Xiaoming. 鈥淩evealing the Gusu Woodblock Print Collection in Cabinet No. 22 of the Saxon Palace.鈥� Nianhua Yanjiu (Autumn 2022):16鈥�37.
Wang, Xiaoming. 鈥淭he L眉 Family鈥檚 Woodblock Prints in Early Qing Suzhou: A Study of Their Imagery and Style.鈥� Nianhua Yanjiu (2025): 22鈥�38.
Selected Books and Monographs in Chinese
Feng, Jicai, and Wang, Xiaoming. 2009. Xiaoshide huayang: Jinbaozhai Yi Deyuan jianzhi [Disappeared Patterns: Paper Cuttings of Yi Deyuan in Jinbaozhai]. Beijing: Zhonghua Press.
Wang, Xiaoming. 2011. Chinese New Year Pictures Artists Oral History: Zhuxianzhen New Year Picture鈥擥uo Taiyun and Yin Guoquan. Tianjin: Tianjin University Press.
Wang, Xiaoming, and Zhu Shenghui. 2011. Chinese New Year Pictures Artists Oral History: Xinjiang New Year Picture鈥擥uo Quansheng; Linfen New Year Picture鈥擭ing Jixian. Tianjin: Tianjin University Press.
Tang, Na, and Wang, Xiaoming. 2011. Chinese New Year Pictures Artists Oral History: Foshan New Year Picture鈥擣eng Bingtang and Zhangzhou New Year Picture鈥擸an Shiguo. Tianjin: Tianjin University Press.听