Nühuajia in the News
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This database website traces its origin back to the analog archiving work of University of Oregon History of Art and Architecture Professor Emeritus Ellen Johnston Laing, who searched physical issues of the Tianjin newspaper Beiyang huabao, painstakingly photocopied each mention of a woman artist, and kept handwritten records on individual notecards.
After receiving Dr. Laing’s archive, Amanda Wangwright digitized the images and eventually merged her own growing archive. Dr. Wangwright, Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina, assembled her collection of Republican-period news coverage on nühuajia in the process of writing her book, The Golden Key: Modern Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949) (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
A USC Provost Grant in 2016 and College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Grant in 2020 permitted the employment of student workers to catalogue the data. During the 2016-2017 academic year, Sun Yuechen (Fred) recorded entries from the Ellen Johnston Laing archive in an incipient version of this digital archive. Anna Morales, who worked as Website Design Assistant in the fall of 2021, created the website design and transferred data from the original digital archive. Emma Bassett continued organizing and transferring digital data while relocating the archive to its current platform in the fall of 2022.
An early version of this website was hosted by the University of South Carolina’s Create Digital, for which Amie Freeman in USC University Libraries Digital Research Services offered repeated encouragement and technical support.
It is hoped that this online database will continue to grow with data from additional archives in the future. If you have media coverage on Chinese women artists of the twentieth century that you wish to contribute to this website, please contact the author.
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Many of the entries documented on this website were discovered in the Shanghai Library’s Quanguo baokan suoyin: Minguo shiqi qikan quanwen shujuku (1911–49) [National Index to Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals: Republican Period Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911–49)] (CNBKSY). Because CNBKSY is a subscription-model archive, Nühuajia in the News is unable to share images for these entries. Requests for images from the CNBKSY archive should be sent to the institution directly.
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Wangwright, Amanda. “About.” Nühuajia in the News: Primary Sources on Women Artists in Early Twentieth-Century China. 2022. <website address>