UMAG Online Lecture Series (2025-2026) 💬 Lecture 3

Encountering the “Tiger Painter”: Zhang Shanzi’s Fundraising Tour of the United States, 1939–1940

This lecture reconstructs the 1939–1940 fundraising tour of the guohua painter Zhang Shanzi (1882–1940) across the United States, undertaken at the height of the second Sino-Japanese War. Zhang’s overseas activities received extensive coverage in prominent news outlets and popular magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Life, and Time, where he was frequently dubbed the “Tiger Painter” in recognition of his signature tiger paintings. Through examining the artist’s mobilisation of personal networks, stylistic innovation, and new exhibition venues, this work complicates established discourses on the distinct trajectories of Chinese visual modernity and its entanglements with global modernism.
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🗣️Speaker: Yifan Li, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Art and Music Histories, Syracuse University
🗣️Discussant: Xinyue Lulu Yuan, Assistant Professor of Asian Art, Design, and Material Culture, History of Art and Design Department, Pratt Institute
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[Online Lecture] Encountering the “Tiger Painter”: Zhang Shanzi’s Fundraising Tour of the United States, 1939–1940

📅 Tuesday, 10 February 2026 (Hong Kong) | Monday, 9 February 2026 (Syracuse, NY)
🕕 9:30–10:30 a.m. (Hong Kong) | 8:30–9:30 p.m. (Syracuse, NY)
📍 Online via Zoom
🗣️ Language: English
🎟️ Registration Required
🔗 For more information, please check the link in bio!
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[New Session] ✨ Serene Scents: Literati Incense Arts ✨

Thank you for the great love and support to Serene Scents: Literati Incense Arts workshop!
In great demand of the workshop, we are proudly to introduce an extra session!

Highlights of the experience:
• Explore and appreciate the ancient ’charcoal-heating’ technique and enjoying the serene aroma of premium agarwood
• Creating a traditional ‘incense seal’’ (香篆),through mindful practice and connecting with this ancient tradition and practice
• Guided by Katrina Cheng, blending classical incense arts with contemporary mindfulness for everyday elegance

𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵; 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯. 🍃

👉 Workshop details: Please check the link in bio!

【新增場次】✨靜看心香：文人香事體驗✨

感謝大家對「靜看心香：文人香事體驗」工作坊的熱烈支持與喜愛！
因應眾多查詢與踴躍報名，現加開全新場次，誠邀你一同再赴一縷心香之約。

工作坊亮點：
• 欣賞古法「隔火熏香」，細味頂級沉香的清寂安和
• 親手製作傳統「香篆」，透過專注押印與靜心觀照，學習文人以香怡情、借物養志的智慧
• 由導師鄭宇真 Katrina Cheng 引領，融合古典香藝與現代靜觀練習，將雅意融入日常

寄情掌中造物，養就內在心香。🍃

👉 工作坊詳情：詳情請瀏覽 link in bio！

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🕯️ Serene Scents: Literati Incense Arts
📆 Dates and time:
Saturday, 24 January 2026 | 2-5pm
📍 Workshop Room, G/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
💬 Language: Cantonese, supplementary English
Fee: HK$400 per person (all materials included. Necessary tools will be provided for use during the workshop and must be returned after the class.)
🎟️ Capacity: Limited to 12 per session
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🕯️ 靜看心香：文人香事體驗
📆 日期及時間：
2026年1月24日（六）｜下午2時至5時
📍 香港大學美術博物館馮平山樓地下工作室
💬 語言：粵語（輔以英語）
🎫 費用：每人港幣400元（已包所有材料，工具需課堂後歸還）
🎟️ 每節名額： 12人
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Handmade and Handheld: Song to Qing Dynasty Chinese Bronzes for the Scholar’s Studio
展覽《掌中造物——宋至清代中國文房青銅器》
📆 October 24, 2025 – February 8, 2026
📍 1/F, F.P.S Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong
📍 香港大學美術博物館馮平山樓1樓
🎟️ Free Admission 免費入場
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Final call for textile art lovers🎺

Only 1 week left to experience Symbols of Identity: IKAT Textiles from Indonesia at UMAG, a focused display of masterfully woven textiles from across the Indonesian archipelago that reveal subtle, asymmetrical designs long overlooked by scholars. Don’t miss this last chance to immerse yourself in our intricate ikat textiles! 👀

紡織藝術愛好者最後召集🎺

展覽 「文符交織：印尼伊卡的絣織意像」展期剩下不足一週！展覽聚焦探索印尼群島織造者非凡的藝術造詣，揭示長久以來被學術界忽視的視覺語言與藝術巧思。
把握最後機會，細看這些由印尼頂尖織造者精心織造的絣織作品👀
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Symbols of Identity: IKAT Textiles from Indonesia
《文符交織：印尼伊卡的絣織意像》
📆 December 12, 2025 - Jan 15, 2026
🎟️ 免費入場 Free Admission
📍香港大學美術博物館 馮平山樓地下博藝軒
📍 Study Gallery, G/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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Upcoming Lecture💬

From Soil and Temples to the Desk: Prototypes and Inheritance in Late Chinese Bronzes

Bronze has held an enduring place in Chinese culture for over 3,000 years. Originally cast as ritual vessels for formal banquets and various sacrifices, bronzes are still widely used today—embellishing households, furnishing altars, or serving as diplomatic gifts.

This talk traces the origins of the delicate scholar’s studio bronzes now exhibited at UMAG back to the Neolithic Age. Prehistoric ceramic containers served as prototypes for the food and wine vessels of the Bronze Age. These objects, associated with authority and power, gradually formed the core of major imperial collections and inspired later practices of recreation, antiquarianism, and archaism throughout dynastic China.
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🗣️Speaker: Shengyu Wang, Associate Curator, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong
🗣️Moderator: Florian Knothe, Director, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong
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[Lecture] From Soil and Temples to the Desk: Prototypes and Inheritance in Late Chinese Bronzes

📅 Saturday, 17 January 2026
🕕 3:15–4:45 p.m.
📍 1/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
🗣️ Language: English
🎟️ Registration Required
🔗 For more information, please check the link in bio!
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