Michelle H. Wang is associate professor of art and humanities at Reed College. Her scholarship has been published in Art History and Artibus Asiae.
“This book serves as a much-needed intervention in the field, which often views these excavated diagrams as ‘maps’ that mark some stage in the history of Chinese cartography. This innovative study fills a very glaring hole in the field of early Chinese material and visual culture.” -- Anthony Barbieri, University of California, Santa Barbara “The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China is a commendable work. It is notable for a number of reasons that lend Wang’s study a distinct edge, energizing Chinese studies and contributing to the general literature on mapping.” -- Eugene Y. Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University “Wang’s innovative and lavishly illustrated book makes a substantial contribution to the field of early China while bringing early Chinese diagrams and maps to the English-speaking scholarly world. Through a deep engagement with the scholarship on these materials, Wang’s analysis places them into conversation with a wide variety of other documents from the period.” -- Brian Lander, Brown University