SELECTED ESSAYS & ARTICLES
France writes on both traditional and contemporary Chinese art, history and culture. Her published essays and articles have appeared in Oriental Art, Art in America, catalogues and educational websites.
Dunhuang: A Brief History and Travel Guide to China's Silk Road Oasis
SupChina, 2016
Crafting the Contemporary in Chinese Art
Catalogue essay, Under Heaven: Contemporary Art from China in the Ahmanson Collection, 2016
The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection of Traditional Chinese Art
Catalogue essay and entries, private collection, 2015
The Daghlian Collection: A Passionate Journey of Collecting Chinese Art
Website conversation and catalogue entries, Queens College, CUNY, 2013
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From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Cantonese Contemporary Art in the 1980s
China: The Empire of Art?
Beijing Besieged by Waste
Film reviews for East Asian Media Services, University of Illinois, 2009-12
Porcelain, Jingdezhen and Chinese History
Digital Asia, University of Illinois, 2011
Mansheng Wang: Art and Artlessness
Exhibition essay, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY, 2010
Hammer Projects: Chen Qiulin
Catalogue essay, Hammer Museum, UCLA, 2009
Nanjing Triennial Review
Art in America, December 2008
Dunhuang: A Brief History and Travel Guide to China's Silk Road Oasis
The Thousand Buddha Motif: A Visual Chant in Cave-Temples Along the Silk Road
Oriental Art (Vol. XLIV No. 4, pp. 39 - 45), 1999
VIDEOS
As contemporary Chinese art began to flourish, France produced Art Salon: The Culture of Contemporary Chinese
Art for China Institute. This lecture and video series is dedicated to contextualizing the lives of Chinese artists, as they took their place in the international art world. She interviewed leading artists and brought to the forefront issues these artists were facing in China and abroad.
Artists:
Ai Weiwei
Chen Qiulin
Hong Lei
Lin Yilin
Song Dong
Sun Xun
Qiu Zhijie
Topics:
Censorship in the Visual Arts in China
Contemporary Chinese Art Short Course Part 1 & 2
Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art
Chinese Artists in New York