Dr. LAM Hau Ling Eileen
Assistant Professor
Department of Cultural and Creative Arts
The Education University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Fellowship Project
Dr. Eileen Lam spent twelve months (November 2010 – November 2011) at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, U.S.A., where she studied the Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein archaic Chinese jades collection and updated its documentation on the Institute’s intranet and online database.
Biography
Dr. Eileen Lam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts at The Education University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in Chinese art history from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her doctoral research focused on a lavish group of jades discovered in princely tombs of the second century BC in southeastern China. Dr. Lam teaches courses in the fields of material culture, and history of Chinese art. Her current research focuses on tomb art and the materiality of objects in ancient China. She recently has carried out different research projects and published on ritual object and its representations of Han China.
Selected Publication(s)
Journal articles and book chapters
- Lam, H. L. E. (2019). Representation of heaven and beyond: the bi disc imagery in the Han burial context. Asian Studies, 7(2), 115-151. (LINK TO https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2019.7.2.115-151)
- Lam, E. H. L. (2019). Carvings (stone and jade) in pre‐modern China. In H. Fujita & C. Guth (Eds.), Encyclopedia of East Asian design (46-49). London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Lam, H. L. E. (2018). Dynamic between form and material: the bi disc in Western Han noble burial ritual. In F. Allard, K. Linduff & Y. Sun (Eds.), Memory and agency in ancient China: Shaping the life history of objects (216-239). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Lam, H. L. E. (2014). The changes in wearing huang pendants between Western and Eastern Zhou periods and the occurrence of dragon pendants 兩周佩璜方式的轉變與玉龍佩之出現. Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology and Shanghai Museum, The international symposium on Rui state treasures from Hancheng, Shaanxi province (181-188). Shanghai: Shanghai Classics Publishing House.
- Lam, H. L. E. (2012). The Possible Origins of the Jade Stem Beaker in China. Arts Asiatiques, 67, 35-46.
Conference papers
- Lam, H. L. E. (2018, June). A Study of Lacquered Head Covers in Han Burials. The Eighth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology, Nanjing, China.
- Lam, H. L. E. (2017, June). The Sheng and Its Representation in Early China Burials. The Twelfth International Conference on the Arts in Society, Paris, France.
- Lam, H. L. E. (2016, June). From Mythology to Representation: Sheng and Its Iconography in Han Burial Ritual. Paper presented at Seventh Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA), Cambridge and Boston, USA.
- Lam, H. L. E. (2015, November). Antiquarianism and Displays of Ancient Materials in Pre-modern China. Paper presented at The International Conference of The Future of Museum and Gallery Design Conference, Hong Kong.
- Lam, H. L. E. (2015, September). Jade Vessels in the Western Han Mortuary Context. Paper presented at The 21st Annual Meeting of The European Association of Archaeologists, Glasgow, UK.
- Lam, H. L. E. (2015, July). The Jade Disc and Its Representations in Han China Burials. Paper presented at International Conference on the Arts in Society, London, UK.
- Lam, H. L. E. (2014, June). Simulation and Representation: Bi Disc in Han Burial Ritual. Paper presented at Sixth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
- 林巧羚（2012年8月）。〈兩周佩璜方式的轉變與玉龍佩之出現〉，論文發表於「陝西韓城出土芮國文物暨周代封國考古學研究國際學術研討會」，中國上海。
