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...soon as the doors were open between China and the West, Wu Hung applied to the graduate program at Harvard, where his father had studied in the 1930s. Wu Hung wanted to continue his work in art history. "In China we don't really have art history; we only have works of art," explains Wu Hung...
Arriving in the United States in 1980 with no knowledge of English, Wu Hung plunged right into classes in the Anthropolgy Department. "Of course it was a culture shock," he says. "That first year I worked very hard, day and night, to learn the language." Wu Hung eventually elected to write his doctoral thesis on bronze funerary ornaments of the Han Dynasty for an ad hoc committee of members from both the Anthropology and Fine Arts departments...
...Wu Hung says he finds the Western style of teaching to be very different from the learning by rote method of China. He explains, "The Chinese education is taking notes. You listen, you take notes, you memorize. Here each person contributes. People raise questions; they argue...
...intellectual atmosphere is also quite a change for Wu Hung. "Here there is an urge to make your knowledge more up to date. There are more chances to challenge arguments," he says...
...Fine Arts tutorial on Chinese figure painting which he leads, Wu Hung has adopted this method of free discussion and exchange. "Communication is my religion, my ideology," he says. "If I really believe in any one thing, that...