Wanli Cheng—Assistant Professor of the Department of Fine Arts
Biography
Wanli Cheng, assistant professor and Master’s supervisor of School of Arts, Southeast University, was born in Suqian, Jiangsu Province, in 1976.
Education
M.A. (School of Fine Arts, Nanjing Normal University), 2002—2005.
Major: Study of Fine Arts
D.Phil. (School of Arts, Southeast University), 2005—2008.
Major: Art Studies
Research Interests
Artistic Theory, Folk Art, Study of Fine Arts
Research Achievements
Took charge of two provincial and ministerial level fund projects.
Published two monographs and more than 30 papers.
Representative Achievements
1)Principal Investigator, “Research on Folk Art Inheritance.” (Established in 2010, Approval No. 10YSC011). Jiangsu Province Social Science Fund.
2)Monograph: Study of the Image of Four Gods (A Painting completed in Han Dynasty), Southeast University Press, 2012.
3)Papers:
“Study of the Significance of Four Gods Decoration of Bronze Mirror in Han Dynasty. Art Observation. No. 2, 2008
“The Notion of Four Images in Traditional Chinese Culture.” Jiangxi Social Sciences. No.8, 2012.
“An Analysis of the Concept of Emperor Worship in Ancient China.” Seeker. No. 9, 2012.
“Study of the Image Morphology and It’s Function Based on Ancestral Temple Sacrifice Field.” Academic Forum. No. 12, 2012.
“Study of Image of Gods Fuxin and Nvwa in Paintings of the Han Dynasty from the Perspective of Artistic Theory.” Hundred Schools in Arts. No. 4, 2012.
“Cultural Attributes of Food Utensils.” Hundred Schools in Arts. No. 4, 2013.
“The Art of Empirism.”Ethnic Arts Quarterly. No. 3, 2014.