Seeing is Believing?

Seeing is Believing? Truth, Propaganda, and Maoist Children’s Book Illustrations in Hung Liu’s “Happy and Gay” Series

Join us for a faculty panel presented in collaboration with Penn’s Wolf Humanities Center’s Forum on Truth. Featuring Bakirathi Mani, Penn Presidential Compact Professor of English; Chloe Estep, Assistant Professor, Modern Chinese and Sinophone Literatures; Chenshu Zhou, Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Studies; and Emily Ng, Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Moderated by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Inaugural Faculty Director, Arthur Ross Gallery and James and Nan Wagner Farquhar Professor, Department of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania

This panel is presented in collaboration with the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Image: Hung Liu, Street Library, 2013. Oil on canvas, wood shelf, and Chinese picture storybooks. 60 x 88 inches. Private collection, Laguna Beach.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Located in the Fisher Fine Arts Library Building, Philadelphia, United States