#  Yim King (Kathy) Mak 

 

 



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Yim King (Kathy) Mak earned her PhD in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018. Her dissertation, “The New Look of Mountains and Rivers: Landscape and the Imagining of the Socialist China During the Seventeen Years (1949-1966),” investigates the political function of landscape depiction in the imagining of an idealized Chinese socialist nation-state from its establishment in 1949 to the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966. At the Mahindra Humanities Center, she will examine the role of landscape imageries in shaping migrants’ conception of homeland in the context of China-Taiwan migration during the postwar period (1949-1971). Her project considers how modes of depicting traditional Chinese landscape functioned as a form of cultural memory, and how this memory was appropriated by the Nationalist government to portray sceneries that they observed in their surrogate home of Taiwan, as well as those that they remembered from their native home in China. She has held fellowships at the UCLA Asia Institute and the National Museum of Korea and has written catalogue essays for exhibitions at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [Art & Architecture](/disciplines/history-art-architecture)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2018 - 2019](/fellowship-year/2018-2019)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)