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Guanyin; Buddhist Deity of Compassion in China (Images of Asia)
Oxford University Press, 2004

Buddhist Art in China (Images of Asia)
Oxford University Press, 2002

Early Buddhist Narrative Art: Illustrations of the Life of the Buddha from Central Asia, China, Korea and Japan
University Press of America, 2000

Arts of the Tang Court (Images of Asia)
Oxford University Press, 1996

Court Art of the Tang Dynasty
University Press of America, 1996

The Life of the Buddha: Pictorial and Scriptural Evidence in India
University Press of America, 1992

CATALOGUES

Xun Dao: Searching for Spirituality in Contemporary Chinese Art
  May 21-June 27, 2009
Frederieke Taylor Gallery
535 West 22nd Street, New York City
catalogue

Beijing Boogie Woogie: Art in Beijing
Chinese American Arts Council, New York City,
June 28-July 26, 2007
catalogue

Heart Prints: Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy
Bard College, Annandale, 2004
catalogue images

Femininity in Contemporary Asian Art: If the Shoe Fits…
Vernal Visions, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York City (45pp.), 2002

Reading Sculptures: Works by Longbin Chen 1993-2002
Taiwan 2002

Who Am I
Contemporary Asian and Asian American Women Artists

456 Gallery (Chinese-American Arts Council), New York City
catalogue text  catalogue images

Contemporary Chinese Art and
the Literary Culture of China

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 1999
Lehman College Art Gallery, Lehman College, CUNY, 1998 
catalogue:
part 1 (pages 1-20),  part 2 (pages 21-39), part 3  (pages 40-68)

ARTICLES

Indian Art (directly below) Chinese Art   Contemporary Art
Other
 

Indian Art

“The Origins and Evolution of Portrayals of the Death of the Buddha in India"
Oriental Art, vol. LV, no.3 (2006): 33-41

“Women and Their Role in Early Buddhism - Textual and Pictorial Evidence”
Oriental Art, no. 4 (1998/9): 30-38

“The Origins of the Myth of the First Sermon”
East and West (Rome), vol. 45, no. 1-4 (1995): 127-147

“The Post-Enlightenment Miracles of the Buddha; Texts and Illustrations”
Orientations (Hong Kong) January, vol. XXI (1990):  71-77

“Hellenistic Influences on the Formation of a Biographical Cycle Based on the Life of the Buddha”
Oriental Art (London), vol. XXXV (1989): 163-168

“Scenes of the Life of the Buddha and the Rites of Pilgrimage”
Oriental Art (London), vol. XXXIII (1987):  268-274

“New Archaeological Evidence in Pakistan--the Stupa”
Eighth International Symposium of Asian Scholars, Hong Kong, 1986: 1067-1074

“Mara, Buddhist Deity of Death and Desire”
East and West (Rome) vol. XXXII (1982): 75-92

Chinese Art

"The Evolution of the Image of Xian in the Han"
Daoist Art History (Xi'an Academy of Art, 2008): 37-44

"The East West Transmission of the Wine Ewer"
 Kristi (New Delhi, 2008): 97-105

“Empress Wu, Maitreya and Xuanzang,” New Delhi Conference on Xuanzang and the Silk Road, National Museum, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (2008): 103-116

“Images of the Immortal in Ancient Chinese Art”
Proceedings of the International Conference of Taoism on Mt. Tiantai and Zhejiang, Ancient Art Publications, Zhejiang; (2008): 793-806

“The Huajing, Empress Wu and the Caves at Longmen” (in Chinese)
2004 International Conference on Research of the Arts of the Longmen Caves, Fine Arts Publications. Henan; (2006): 159-164

“Millennialist Themes in the Northern Wei Grottoes in Qingyang and Jingchuan County, Eastern Gansu”
Oriental Art  Vol. XLIX. No. 4 (2003-2004): 40-47

“Heavenly Dowager Wu Zetian and Buddhist Art of the Tang Dynasty”
T’ang Studies, no. 21-22 (2002-2003): 113-150

“Imperial Splendor in the Service of the Sacred: Table Set for the Gods: Gold and Silver Tea Service and Esoteric Chinese Buddhist Ritual”
T’ang Studies, vol. 18-19 (2002-01): 61-85

“The Presence of the Goddess Anahita and Cosmological Symbols Associated with the Goddess on Western Decorative Arts Excavated in Early Medieval China”
Between Han and Tang,
Wenwu Press: Beijing, 2001: 341-379

“Sarvastivadin Buddhists and Scenes of the Life of the Buddha from Qizil (Xinjiang)"
Oriental Art, vol. XLVI, no. 1 (2000): 48-58

“The Representation of Women in Medieval China: Recent Archaeological Evidence”
T’ang Studies, vol. 17 (1999): 213-271

“Water the Divine Element of Creation and Images of the Buddha of the West in Early China”
Journal of Chinese Religions, vol. 25 (1997): 33-57

“Western Origins of the Paradise of Amitofu”
Sino Platonic Papers (University of Pennsylvania), No. 76 (1997): 1-28

“New Archaeological Evidence of Tang Esoteric Art”
T'ang Studies, vol. 12, (1994): 11-37

“The Famen Temple Finds and New Evidence of Tang Esoteric Buddhism”
Archives of Asian Art, vol. XLVII (1994): 78-85

“Some Cosmological Schemes in the Early Caves at Dunhuang”
Journal of Chinese Religions, Fall, vol. 20 (1992): 103-116

“Northern Wei Painted Coffin”
Artibus Asiae, vol. LI (1991): 5-20 (co-author A. Soper)

“The Tang Reliquary from Lingtai, Gansu and the Mahaparinirvana”
East and West (Rome), December, vol. 38 (1988): 215-230

“A Tang Buddhist Scene of the Assumption of the Soul”
Tenth International Symposium of Asian Scholars, Hong Kong, 1988: 211-216

“The Guoqu Xianzai Yingquo Jing at Dunhuang”
Journal of Chinese Religions, Fall,  No. 16 (1988): 54-72

“The Engraved Designs on the Late Sixth Century Sarcophagus of Li Ho”
Artibus Asiae, vol. XLVII (1986): 81-106

“Taoist Iconography on Mortuary Art of the Sixth Century in China”
Sixth International Symposium of Asian Scholars Hong Kong, 1984:  201-210

“Foreigners in Tang and pre-Tang Painting”
Oriental Art (London), vol. XXX (1984):  160-166

“A Scene of the Taoist Afterlife on a Sixth Century Sarcophagus Discovered in Loyang”
 Artibus Asiae, vol. XLIV (1983):  5-20

“The Buddhist Murals Discovered at Yenshangssu”
Artibus Asiae, vol. XLII (1981): 245-260

Contemporary Art 

Cui Guotai, "Rust Never Sleeps"
Yishu, vol. 8, no. 4 (2009): 32-40

“Conroy Sanderson: Two Heads are Better than One”
Yishu, vol. 8, no.2 (2009): 77-85

"Xu Yong: Photographer of the Vanishing Past and the Emerging Future of China”
Yishu, vol. 7, no. 6 (2008): 88-98

"New Works, New Directions in the Art of Yang Jinsong”
Yishu, vol. 7, no.1 (2008): 37-40

“The Gao Brothers: All the World’s a Stage”
Yishu, vol. 6, no. 2 (2007): 61-67

"Zhang Dali: The Face of China”
Yishu, vol. 4, no. 4 (2005): 69-75

Portrait of a Beijing Artist: Yang Jinsong”
Eastern  Art,  2005, Issue 49.1:24-29

“Time and Biochronology in the Work of Chen Lingyang”
Paradoxa (London), vol. 15 (2005):37-43

“Longbin Chen: Content in Forms”
 Yishu, Winter 2004: 52-57

“Zhang O: In Transit”
Yishu, Fall 2004: 28-31

“Laizi Beijing de siwei nyu yishujya”
Shijye Yishu (in Chinese), 2004 no.2:19-23

“Zhao Suikang: No Reconciliation: The Art of Convergence in the Work Suigang Zhao”
Oriental Art, vol. XLVIII No. 2 (2002): 37-43

“Beijingnuren: Five Women Artists from Beijing, Five Different Styles”
Journal of Women’s Art, vol. 23, no. 2 (2003):28-33

“A Modern Literati: The Art of Xu Bing”
Oriental Art, vol. XLVII, no.4 (2001): 47-62

“Political Art of China at the End of the Twentieth Century-the Tiananmen Generation”
Oriental Art, vol. XLVII, No. 1 (2001): 54-62

“Meditations on the Material--the Work of the Suijian Guo, Contemporary Chinese Sculptor”
 Oriental Art, vol. XLV, no. 2 (1999): 96-100

“Contemporary Chinese Art and the Literati Culture of China”
Bard Journal of Social Studies, Feb. 1999: 21-31

“Between Two Cultures: Reading Sculptures by Longbin Chen”
World Sculpture News, 1998, no. 4: 22-25

Other

“Buddha: Letter to the Editor”
 Chest, 1997, vol. 111, no. 2: 525

 “DNR: Lessons From the Buddha”
Chest, 1996, vol. 109, no. 6: 1415-1416

ABSTRACTS

“"Contemporary Christian Art”
ICAS (International Conference of Asian Studies) 6, Daejon, Korea, August 2009

“The Evolution of the Image of the Divine in Daoist Art”
Fifth International Daoist Studies Conference, Mt. Wudang, Hubei, June 2009

“Tang Buddhist Metropolitan Style”
T’ang Studies: The Next Twenty-five Years, University of Albany, May 2009

“Regional Style and the Role of Scriptures in the Evolution of Buddhist Art During the Medieval Period”
Chinese Buddhist Art: New Dimensions and
Perspectives, University of Sydney, Australia, August 2008

The Evolution of the Many Forms of Guanyin in India and their Counterparts at Dunhuang”
Fourth Dunhuang International Conference, Gansu Province, August 2004

 “The Huayenjing and Empress Wu at Longmen”
Longmen Cave Symposium, Henan Province, August 2004

“Daoist Imagery on a Group of  Northern Wei Stone Sarcophagi from Luoyang”
Daoism in the Modern World, Sichuan University, June 2004

”East West Transmission of the Greek Long-necked Wine Vessel with Handle Over the Centuries“
Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion, Calcutta, January 2004

“Empress Wu and Buddhist art of Guangyuan”
Third International Asian Scholars Conference, Singapore, August 2003

“Daoist Imagery on Medieval Funerary Objects“
Daoism and Art II
Conference, Boston University, June 2003

 “Chinese Writing and Contemporary Chinese Art”
Contemporary Chinese Arts in the International Arena,  British Museum, April 2002 

“The Buddhas of the Past and Future at the Northern Wei Caves in Qingzhou, Eastern Gansu, China”
Second International Convention of Asian Scholars, Freie Universität, Berlin, August 2001

 “Millennialism at the Northern Wei Caves in Gansu, China”
Asian Studies Conference, Sophia University, Tokyo, June 2001 

“Contemporary Asian Women Artists”
ICANAS 37th Congres International des Etudes Asiatiques et Nord-africaines, Montreal, August 2000

“Western Origins of the Scenes of the Death of the Buddha”
ICANAS 37th Congres International des Etudes Asiatiques et Nord-africaines ,Montreal, August 2000

“Scenes of the Parinirvana in the Cave-temples of Qizil in Quca, Xinjiang and their relationship to those at Dunhuang, Gansu”
Dunhuang Research Institute, Gansu Province, China,  August 2000.

“The Presence of the Goddess Anahita and Cosmological Symbols Associated with the Goddess on Western Decorative Arts Excavated in Early Medieval China”
Between Han and Tang, Beijing University, July 2000

“Contemporary Chinese Art and the Artistic Uses of Calligraphy”
CAA, NY, February 2000.

“Early Archaeological Evidence of Western Influence in Medieval China"
New Research in Asian Art, New York Conference on Asian Studies, Association of Asian Studies,  New Paltz, NY, October 1998

 “Early Esoteric Images of Guanyin in China”
Association for Asian Studies, Washington, March 1998

“Scenes of the Life of the Buddha from the Peacock Cave-temples of Qizil (Xinjiang) and Their Western Counterparts”
ICANAS 36th Congres International des Etudes Asiatiques et Nord-africaines, Budapest Hungary, August 1997

“Women in the Tang”
College Art Association, NY, February 1997 

“Western Origins of the Paradise of Amitofu”
A Symposium on Paradise Representations in East Asian Art, Harvard University, October 1995 

 “Divine Water and the Paradise of Amitofu”
Third International Congress on Buddhist Art, Dunhuang Research Institute, Dunhuang, China, August 1994

“New Archaeological Evidence of Tang Esoteric Art”
Association of Asian Studies, March 1994 

“Woman and Early Buddhism, A Study in Misogyny”
ICANAS 35th Congres International des Etudes Asiatiques et Nord-africaines, Hong Kong, August 1993

“The Tang International Style and the Treasures of Famen Temple, Xian”
Mid Atlantic Association of Asian Studies, Pennsylvania, October 1992

“The First Sermon and the Formation of the Sangha”
ACASAA Meeting, Freer Gallery, Washington, DC, April 1991

“The Early Wei Caves at Dunhuang, A Reconsideration of the Square Pillar”
Second International Conference on Buddhist Art, Dunhuang Research Institute, Dunhuang, China, October 1990

“The First Sermon of the Buddha in the Texts and Illustrations”
ICANAS 34th Congres International des Etudes Asiatiques et Nord-africaines, Toronto, August 1990 

“Some Cosmological Schemes in the Early Caves at Dunhuang”
College Art Association, NY, February 1990

“Post-Enlightenment Miracles Performed by the Buddha, Texts and illustration”
College Art Association, San Francisco, CA, February 1989

 “A Tang Buddhist Scene of the Assumption of the Soul”
Tenth International Symposium of Asian Scholars, Hong Kong, July 1988

 “Buddhist Mortuary Art”
Conference on Asian Studies, State University of Brockport, NY, October 1987                                              

“Scenes of the Mahaparinirvana at Dunhuang, Gansu”
ICANAS, 33rd International Congress Abstract, Hamburg, August 1986: 7 

“New Archaeological Evidence in Pakistan: The Stupa”
Eighth International Symposium of Asian Scholars, Hong Kong, July 1986

“Western Influences in Gandharan Art, a New Approach”
East and West, Seoul, Korea, August 1985

“Taoist Iconography on Mortuary Art of the Sixth Century in China”
Sixth International Symposium of Asian Scholars, Hong Kong, July 1984

“The Illustration of the Sutra of Cause and Effect (Ingakyo) in China”
CISHAAN, 32nd International Congress Abstract, Tokyo, August 1983: 617

“Foreigners in Tang Art”
College Art Association, February 1982,  New York City

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