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Sonya Lee

Expert in the art of China and East Asia, including religious works and Buddhist relic worship

Assistant professor of Chinese Art and Visual Culture
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Contact at: (213) 821-2582 or sonyasle@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • the visual culture and art history of China and East Asia
  • religious art and architecture in China
  • Buddhist art and Buddhism
  • Buddhist relic worship
  • Silk Road art and material culture, including cave temples
  • political use of the Buddha's life story
  • monumental sculpture in the establishment of sacred sites
Additional Information:
  • Author, Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture (forthcoming)
  • Author, "Le Nirvana du Bouddha et Les Dépôts de Reliques en Chine Médiévale" in Image et Imagination: Le Bouddhisme en Asie (2008); "Transmitting Buddhism to a Future Age: The Leiyin Cave at Fangshan and Cave Temples with Stone Scriptures in Sixth-Century China" in Archives of Asian Art (2008); and "The Buddha's Words at Cave Temples: Inscribed Scriptures in the Design of Wofoyuan" in Ars Orientalis (2008)
  • Recipient, nonresidential postdoctoral fellowship from J. Paul Getty Foundation
  • Member, Association of Asian Studies, College Art Association
  • Earned Ph.D. in Art History, University of Chicago, 2004

Foreign Languages:
Mandarin, Cantonese

More:
For more information go to:

http://college.usc.edu/faculty/faculty1003447.html