Prof. Martin Powers

Martin Powers is Professor in the School of Arts at Peking University and Professor Emeritus in History of Art at the University of Michigan, where he served formerly as Director of the Center for Chinese Studies. Recipient of numerous awards, he was a senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington D.C., and a Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His first two books, published by Yale University Press and Harvard University Press East Asian Series, each won the Levenson Prize for Best Book in pre-1900 Chinese Studies (1993 and 2006). His most recent monograph is China and England: The Preindustrial Struggle for Justice in Word and Image, Routledge, 2019. Together with Dr. Katherine Tsiang, he co-edited Looking at Asian Art and the Blackwell Companion to Chinese Art. He also publishes opinion pieces in the South China Morning Post. His new manuscript is entitled 23 Lessons in Social Justice from East and West.