Professor
Qianshen Bai graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Peking University and a
Ph.D. from Yale University. From 1997 to 2015 he taught Chinese art history at
Boston University and currently is a professor of Zhejiang University. He
is the author of Fu Shan’s World: The
Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Seventeenth Century (Harvard
University Asia Center, 2003). He received a fellowship from The John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2004 and a fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Humanities in 2011. He is now conducting a research on Wu
Dacheng, a government official, scholar, collector, and painter-calligrapher,
in the late Qing dynasty. Professor Bai is also an accomplished calligrapher.