Anning JingView profile
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Anning Jing is a Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Michigan State University, affiliated with the College of Arts and Letters. He holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Art from Princeton University (1994) and has taught at MSU since 1995. His research focuses on Daoist art, popular culture artworks, Shanxi murals, Yuan Buddhist art, cross-cultural artistic connections, and Chinese landscape painting. Education: Ph.D. in Chinese Art, Princeton University, 1994 Research Interests: Daoist temple architecture and iconography Regional mural studies in Shanxi Yuan Dynasty Buddhist art Cultural exchanges in East Asian art Historical landscape painting analysis Publications include seminal works on Daoist monasteries, Yuan Dynasty murals, and Sino-Tibetan Buddhist art. Current projects involve a book on Buddhist art. His work bridges art history with religious studies and cultural anthropology.