Hsio-yen Shih
Hsio-yen Shih | |||||||||
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| Born | 1933 | ||||||||
| Died | May 2001 (aged 67) | ||||||||
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| Doctoral advisor | Alexander Soper | ||||||||
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| Discipline | Chinese art, Japanese art, art history, archaeology | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 時學顏 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 时学颜 | ||||||||
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Hsio-yen Shih (1933–2001) was a Chinese-born Canadian art historian who specialized in early Chinese and Japanese paintings, as well as ancient Chinese pottery and bronzeware. She was director of the National Gallery of Canada from 1977 to 1981.
Early life
[edit]Hsio-yen Shih was born in Hubei, Republic of China.[1] When she was 6, her father Chao-yin Shih (Chinese: 時昭瀛; pinyin: Shí Zhāoyíng) served as a diplomat for the Nationalist government[2] in Canada, and Hsio-yen lived in Ottawa for a time before returning to China. She attended high school in Shanghai before the Chinese Communist Revolution. After the Chinese Civil War she attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts, graduating in Art History in 1955. After gaining a M.A. in 1958 from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, she went on to study under Alexander Soper at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.[1] Her 1961 Ph.D. thesis is titled Early Chinese Pictorial Style: From the Later Han to the Six Dynasties.[3]
Career
[edit]From 1961 to 1976, Hsio-yen Shih worked in Toronto, Canada, holding joint appointments at the Far Eastern Department of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Toronto. She became Curator of the Far Eastern Department of ROM in 1968. In 1971 she became a full professor. From 1973 to 1974 she was Visiting Professor to the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong. In 1977 she moved to Ottawa to become Director of the National Gallery of Canada. She resigned in 1981 in response to budget cuts, and thereafter moved to Hong Kong, where she served as the Head of Department of Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong until 1988. She retired in 1993, and spent her last years in Toronto.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Bush, Susan (2003). "Hsio-yen Shih (1933–2001)". Archives of Asian Art. 53: 105–107. doi:10.1484/aaa.2003.0006. JSTOR 20111306.
- ^ Lo, York (羅元旭) (2012). 東成西就: 七個華人基督教家族與中西交流百年 [East and West: Chinese Christian Families and Their Roles in Two Centuries of East-West Relations] (in Chinese). Joint Publishing. p. 164. ISBN 9789620431890.
- ^ Early Chinese Pictorial Style: From the Later Han to the Six Dynasties / by Hsio-Yen Shih. 1960.
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- 1933 births
- 2001 deaths
- Chinese art historians
- Canadian art historians
- Chinese emigrants to Canada
- Historians from Hubei
- Chinese women academics
- Canadian women historians
- University of Chicago alumni
- Wellesley College alumni
- Bryn Mawr College alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Hong Kong
- Academic staff of the University of Toronto