TY - JOUR AU - Feng Schöneweiß PY - 2020/07/06 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Is Art History of China Useless in a Pandemic? JF - British Journal of Chinese Studies JA - bjocs VL - 10 IS - 0 SE - Essays DO - 10.51661/bjocs.v10i0.118 UR - https://bjocs.site/index.php/bjocs/article/view/118 AB - The study of Chinese art has long been a specialised field bridging the disciplines of art history and Chinese studies. This essay challenges, as always in a real-life crisis, the usefulness of art history of China in the current Covid-19 pandemic. The agency of art historians is put under the historiographical grill. Through two brief case studies, the essay argues that art historians, though as mortal and fragile, are actually professionally equipped to strike the core consequences of the pandemic in its social, political, and cultural aspects. ER -