Biography
Dr Michelle Huang gained academic qualifications in Marketing and Humanities from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology before pursuing postgraduate studies in Art History at the University of 黑料吃瓜网. She taught Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Lingnan University before returning to 黑料吃瓜网 for a teaching position.
Dr Huang has been a visiting scholar at the University of the Arts London, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the University of Oxford. She also served as a reviewer for academic publishers and funding bodies, including the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong and the Czech Science Foundation. Aside from teaching and research, she got involved in curatorial work, such as internships at the British Museum and the Hong Kong Museum of Art, contributions to a special exhibition and public programmes at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, and art exhibitions at Lingnan University.
At 黑料吃瓜网, Michelle teaches Asian and Western art from the late 18th century to now. She also supervises research dissertations and special projects, including a website on . Her honours modules include AH3136 Contemporary Chinese Art, 1970s to Now, AH3196 Modern Art beyond the West, and AH3134 Collecting Chinese Art: Histories and Practices.
Research areas
Dr Huang’s research interests include cross-cultural exchange on art and curating, history of collecting and display of Chinese painting, art of the Chinese diaspora, and Asian influences on the arts and crafts of Europe and America in the 20th and 21st centuries. She has undertaken extensive research into the reception of Chinese ink painting in Britain c.1880-1980, with special focus on important collections, collectors, curators, scholars and artists associated with the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, and other institutions. Her research findings were widely presented in international conferences, guest lectures, public talks and academic publications.
Dr Huang has published several articles in edited books and journals with world-leading or internationally recognised publishers, such as the Journal of the History of Collections, The Burlington Magazine, Museum History Journal, and Arts of Asia. She has also edited two books, entitled Beyond Boundaries: East & West Cross-Cultural Encounters (2011) and The Reception of Chinese Art across Cultures (2014). Michelle currently works on a book manuscript entitled British Responses to Chinese Painting: Collections, Exhibitions and Interpretations, 1881-1940, which will be published by Manchester University Press. Her recent research focuses on Chinese women artists and their circle of friends in Britain in the second half of the 20th century.
Selected publications
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Ying-Ling Huang, M., 2 Jul 2020, In: Museum History Journal. 13, 2, p. 132-153 22 p.
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Huang, M.Y.-L., 1 Oct 2019, A la croisée de collections d'art entre Asie et Occident: Du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Laureillard, M. & Patin, C. (eds.). Hémisphères Editions, p. 152-171, XVI-XVII
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Huang, M.Y.-L., 1 May 2019, Let Me Tell You a Story = 讓我說一個故事. Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University
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Ying-Ling Huang, M., 1 Jul 2019, In: Journal of the History of Collections . 31, 2, p. 383-401 19 p.
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Huang, M.Y.-L., 19 Jul 2019.
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Ying-Ling Huang, M., 23 Feb 2018.
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Ying-Ling Huang, M., 1 Jan 2018, In: Arts of Asia. 48, 1, p. 42-49 8 p.
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Huang, M., 1 Nov 2018, Continuity. Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University
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Huang, M.Y.-L., 1 Oct 2018, Tradition to Contemporary : Ink Painting and Artistic Development in 20th-century China. Ng, S. S. W. & Huang, M. Y. L. (eds.). University Museum & Art Gallery, HKU, p. 25-34 10 p.
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Ying-Ling Huang, M., 21 Sept 2017, British Modernism and Chinoiserie. Edinburgh University Press, Chapter 4
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