Author Description

This catalogue is published on the occasion of Asia Society Hong Kong Center's eponymous exhibition, Painting Her Way The Ink Art of Fang Zhaoling, from September 27 to December 31, 2017, the first of ASHK's 20th Century Chinese Female Artist Series. The book includes a catalogue of all exhibited artworks and seals, as well as three scholarly essays that shed light on the life and artistic trajectory of Fang Zhaoling, the changing social role of women in Republican China, and the importance of Hong Kong to Fang's career as a painter.