Katharine Burnett

Katharine Burnett

Position Title
陶幽庭Chair, Art History Program
Graduate Chair
Professor of Art History: China’s Art and Culture
Founder and Faculty Director, Global Tea Institute for the Study of Tea Culture and Science
Faculty Associate: East Asian Studies Program

Bio

Bio

Katharine Burnett’s research explores China’s historical art theory and criticism, art and politics, art collecting and display, and the international spread of visual and material culture relating to the global tea trade. Her books include Dimensions of Originality: Essays on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Theory and Criticism (2013), translated version, 《明清中国艺术:原创性的维度》, Naibin Jiang, trans., Beijing Foreign Studies University, Academy of Comparative Civilization and Intercultural Communication and Da Xiang Publishing House (forthcoming). She also authored Shaping Chinese Art History: Pang Yuanji and His Painting Collection (2020), which was listed among Book Authority’s 16 Best New Art History Books To Read In 2021, https://bookauthority.org/books/new-art-history-books. A translation of this book is forthcoming in the book series, Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture, Kuiyi Shen, Editor-in-Chief, Brill. As Lead Editor with David Gundry and Shermain Hardesty, eds., her book, The Stories We Tell: Studies in the Culture, History, and Science of Tea, inaugural issue, Global Tea Studies book series, (Brill), is also forthcoming.

Campus Leadership (recent)

Co-Chair, Department of Art and Art History, 2022–2025

Founder and Director, Global Tea Institute for the Study of Tea Culture and Science, 2023–present; Founder and Director, Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science, 2015–2023; Faculty leader, All Things Tea Research Cluster, 2012–2015

Founder and Director, Global Tea Institute Collection of Art and Material Culture, UC Davis, 2014–present.

Awards and Distinctions

2021    Monograph, Shaping Chinese Art History: Pang Yuanji and His Painting Collection, listed among Book Authority’s 16 Best New Art History Books To Read In 2021

2021    Recipient, Chancellor’s Award for International Engagement, Global Affairs, UC Davis

2021    Recipient, O-Cha Pioneer Award, World Green Tea Association, Shizuoka Prefectural Government, Japan

2019    Nominee: Best Tea Educator – Individual, World Tea Expo, Las Vegas

2018    Recipient, Best Tea Health Advocate, 2018, World Tea Expo, Las Vegas

2013    Nominee: International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize for Dimensions of Originality

 

Lectures

Arts of Asia: this introductory lecture course introduces major forms and trends in the arts and material culture of Asia from the Neolithic to the contemporary. It emphasizes the visual manifestation of artists’ claims regarding their secular and religious ideas and ideals.

Chinese Art: this lecture course examines 3000 years of China’s early art and culture, from the Neolithic through the Tang Dynasty. It studies ceremonial and secular objects that manifest such belief systems as ancestor worship, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism.

Chinese Painting: is a lecture course that takes a thematic and chronological approach to examine China’s painting and culture from the Tang Dynasty through today.

Early Modern Chinese Painting: this lecture course investigates topics and issues manifested in China’s painting and related arts from the 13th to the 19th centuries.

Art from China 1900 to the Present: this lecture course examines modern and contemporary Chinese art, exploring the historical context that shaped it, and the political situations that dictated many of its themes and forms.

The Art and Culture of Tea in China and Beyond (to be offered Sp2026): this lecture course explores the history of tea, Camelia sinensis, from its earliest known cultivation up through today in China and through global trade. It considers its role in Daoism and Buddhism, as well as in secular social gatherings. It traces the history of ceramics through tea ware around the globe in such places as China, Japan, and various European nations.

 

Seminars

Why go? Travel Painting and Meaning in 17th-Century China

Movement & Market, Art & Food: Global China and the Early Modern Period

Of teapots and trade routes: a History of China’s Ceramics and Global Tea Trade

The History of Japanese Ceramics and Tea Culture

Museum and Meditation: Use and Re-use of Cultural Sites and Properties

Investigating the Canon: What is Chinese Painting? and Why?​

Sites and Sights: Travel Painting in 17th-Century China

Visual and Material Culture Relating to the Sino-Viet Trade in Tea and Tea Ware

Transmission and Transformation in 17th-Century Painting from China

Collectors and Collecting

Tea and Its Impact on Visual and Material Culture

Paradigms of Passion, Paradigms of Idiosyncrasy: Art and the State in the Late Ming

Comparative Decadence between the Jiajing and Wanli Eras

Modernism Comes to China

Great Cities of China

Art in the Turbulent Years: Chinese Art from 1850-Present

The Formation of Chinese Culture: Collections of Chinese Art in Early Twentieth-Century America,.

China and the (Trans/Inter)national Art Exhibition, 18XX-2008.

 

Special Courses

Great Cities of China, Freshman Seminar

Global Tea Culture and Science, First Year Seminar (team taught), Lead Instructor

 

Publications

Books

Shaping Chinese Art History: Pang Yuanji and His Painting Collection, Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2020, https://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=746

Dimensions of Originality: Essays on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Theory and Criticism, Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 2013,  https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dimensions-of-originality/9789629964566/

 

Books in translation

Chinese translation of Shaping Chinese Art History: Pang Yuanji and His Painting Collection, Kui-yi Shen, Managing Editor, forthcoming.

Naibin Jiang, trans.,《明清中国艺术:十七世纪中国艺术理论与批评》, Chinese translation of Dimensions of Originality: Essays on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Theory and Criticism, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Academy of Comparative Civilization and Intercultural Communication and Da Xiang Publish House, forthcoming.

 

As editor

Lead Editor, with David Gundry and Shermain Hardesty, eds. The Stories We Tell: Studies in the Culture, History, and Science of Tea, inaugural issue, Global Tea Studies book series, Brill, forthcoming.

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Global Tea Studies, book series, Brill, established 2024.

Guest Editor, Special Issue: “Decadence (or Not) in the Ming Dynasty,” Ming Studies, 71, (May 2015).

 

Articles and chapters

“Introduction,” in Katharine P. Burnett, David Gundry and Shermain Hardesty, eds. The Stories We Tell: Studies in the Culture, History, and Science of Tea, inaugural issue, Global Tea Studies book series, Brill, forthcoming.

“Mediated Meaning of a Magnificent Rock: Using Wu Bin’s Words to Understand His Painting, Ten Views of a Lingbi Rock,Word & Image, forthcoming.

“Weirder than Weird: ‘Weird-Figure’ Paintings of Seventeenth-Century China,” Artibus Asiae, vol. LXXXIV, No. 1 (2024), pp. 81–110.

“Contemporaneity in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting, Theory, and Criticism,” Ming Studies, 88, 1–2 (October 2023), pp. 3–33. DOI: 10.1080/0147037X.2023.2276599.

“Pang Yuanji, Traditionalist/Modernist,” in Special Issue on Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in MING QING YANJIU, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale,” Dept. of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies. Published by BRILL, vol. 24 no. 2 (2020), pp. 181–208.

“Dong Qichang,” co-author (section on Dong’s theory) with Celia Carrington Riely, Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T023280

“Wu Bin.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T092371.

“What do you know? and how do you know it? Some thoughts on seventeenth-century Chinese painting,” in English and Chinese, Art – Science – Thoughts: A New Perspective on the Study of Landscape Painting and Calligraphy Symposium Proceedings, 《思想艺术科学——山水书法研究的新视角. The Research Center for Chinese Thinking History, Calligraphy, and Painting, ed. 中国思想史与书画研究中心. Hangzhou: Chinese Art Academy, 2018, pp. 1546.

“A New Look at a New Look: Painting and Theory of Seventeenth-Century China,” in Stephen Little, ed., 17th Century Chinese Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016, pp. 130167.

“Decadence (or Not) in the Ming Dynasty: Introduction,” for Special Issue, “Decadence (or Not) in the Ming Dynasty,” Ming Studies, 71, (May 2015), pp. 3–4.

“Decadence Disrupted: Arguing Against a Decadence Model in Late Ming Painting History,” for Special Issue, “Decadence (or Not) in the Ming Dynasty,” Ming Studies, 71, (May 2015), pp. 41–57.

“Of Icons and Elvises: ‘Tibetan Spirit’ in Tsherin Sherpa’s New Art,” feature essay in Tsherin Sherpa: Tibetan Spirit, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, October 2012, pp. 4–15.

“Tibetan Buddhist Art in a Globalized World of Illusion: The Contemporary Art of Ang Tsherin Sherpa,” “西藏藝術在跨國化清淨的世界: 安才仁的當代畫,”in Elizabeth Childs-Johnson and Ying-Ying Lai, Guest Eds., Special Issue: “Art and Politics in Today’s China and Taiwan,” Modern Chinese Studies,[當代中國研究], vol. 18, no. 2, 2011, pp. 1–28.

“Mixing Water and Oil: Understanding Shimo in the Contemporary Global Art Market,” in Bin Feng and Shen Kuiyi, eds., Selected Essays from the International Symposium in Conjunction with Reboot, the Third Chengdu Biennale: the Third Chengdu Biennale, 重新启动: 第三届成都双年展 国际学术研讨会论文集 暨第一,二届成都双年展论文选 (Chong xin qi dong : di san jie Chengdu shuang nian zhan guo ji xue shu yan tao hui lun wen ji ji di yi er jie Chengdu shuang nian zhan lun wen xuan), Shijiazhuang Shi: Hebei mei shu chu ban she, 2007, pp. 74–79. Reprinted in Kuiyi Shen and Feng Bin, eds., Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennial, Proceedings from the International Symposium, Chengdu, China, 2007, pp. 74–79. Chinese version and English reprint in Shimo, The Colors from My Heart: The Art of Shimo, 石墨,赋随彩心:石墨作品集, Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2011, pp. 24–34; Chinese version and English reprint, in Shimo, Heaven: The Collection of Shi Mo’s Contemporary Painting. Shenzhen, China: Author Gallery, 2008, pp. 5–11.

“Lin Fengmian’s Legacy during the Cultural Revolution: The Case of Two Rebellious Watercolors,” Proceedings from the International Lin Fengmian 110th Anniversary Symposium, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, 2010, pp. 115–127.

“A Proclamation of Originality: Wu Bin’s On the Way to Shanyin Handscroll,” Oriental Art, Vol. 51, No 1 (Spring, 2010), pp. 2–11.

“An Originalist’s Manifesto: Wu Bin’s inscription on On the Way to Shanyin,Oriental Art, Vol. 51, No 2 (Summer, 2010), pp. 2–7.

“Inventing a New ‘Old Tradition’: Chinese Art at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition,” 《美術史與觀念史》 (Meishu shi yu guannian shi)/History of Art and History of Ideas, Nanjing: Nanjing Shifan University, April 2010, vol. ix, pp. 17–57.

“Late Qing-Early Republican Period Taste and the Case of Pang Yuanji,” The Elegant Gathering: The Yeh Family Collection symposium website, http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/details.php?webcastid=15762, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, and University of California, Berkeley, 2006.

Through Masters’ Eyes: Copying and Originality in Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting,” Shanshui in Twentieth Century China, Shanghai: Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House, 2006, pp. 317–334.

“Travel and Transformation: Wu Bin’s Enjoying Scenery along the Min River,” Oriental Art, vol. L, no. 4, (Winter 2006), pp. 2–15.

晚明中國畫論中的獨創性話語,”(Wanming Zhongguo hualunzhongde duchuangxing huayu; a synthesis of “A Discourse of Originality in Late Ming Chinese Painting Criticism”), 《清華美術》 (Tsinghua Arts), Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, juan 2, 2006, pp. 62–68.

“Words on Word-Images: An Aspect of Dong Qichang’s Calligraphy Criticism,” Word & Image, vol. 19, no. 4, (October–December 2003), 327–335.

“Taking Arts of Asia Online,” Education About Asia, vol. 8, no. 3, (Winter 2003), 26–29; and “Taking Arts of Asia Online,” republished in book format in: Ainslee Embree, Brian Platt, Helen Finken, and Robert L. Moore, “To Live”: An Interview with the Author Yu Hua, Book Review and Film Review," Education About Asia, vol. 8, no. 3, 2003.

“A Discourse of Originality in Late Ming Chinese Painting Criticism,” Art History, vol. 23. no. 4 (November 2000), 522–558.

Individual Status and the Family. Signs and Seats of Power in African Art, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1986, pp. 17–20.

Symbols of Significance: Motifs in Chinese Art. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1989, exhibition brochure, 7 pp.

Chinese Ceramics in the Domino's Collection. Ann Arbor: Fencepost, (December 1989), pp. 12–13.

Individual Status and the Family. Signs and Seats of Power in African Art, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1986, pp. 17–20.

 

Translated essays

“17世纪中国绘画,理论和批评中的当代性,” Abbreviated translation by Mao Jiayi of “Contemporaneity in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting, Theory, and Criticism,” Academic Newsletter of the Fudan University Institute of Literature and History 复旦大学文史研究院学术通讯, 2 (2024), pp. 31–32.

论十七世纪绘画理论和批评中的原创性 (Originality in Seventeenth-Century Painting Theory and Criticism),” Chinese book chapter translation by Li Zhaoyan 李兆䶮, from Dimensions of Originality: Essays on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Theory and Criticism, in《中国艺术学》辑刊,创刊号,陈池瑜主编,清华大学美术学院中国艺术学理论研究所编,山东教育出版社,2022122–138页。(Chinese Art Studies series, inaugural issue, Chen Chiyu, ed., Institute of Chinese Art Theory, Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University, Shandong Education Press, 2022, pp. 122–138.

 

Pedagogy articles

“Tea Research, Teaching, and Outreach through the Global Tea Initiative at UC Davis,” in Liu Zhaohui and Xingxing Wang, eds., Intangible Cultural Heritage of Tea: Tea and the World·Cultural Exchange /《非遗观茶:茶和天下·文明互鉴》, Hangzhou: Zhejiang Education Publishing, 2024.

“UC Davis Global Tea Institute Professional Tea Certificate Program, 2023–2024,” World Green Tea Association bulletin, Ryokucha, vol. 54 (March 2024), pp. 45–46; Japanese translation, カリフォルニア大学 デービス校 世界茶文化科学研究所 2023-2024年 茶専門家認定プログラム; and in English online: https://www.o-cha.net/english/association/information/Ryokucha.vol54_GTI.html

“Disseminating Chinese Culture in America through the Teaching of Chinese Art History,” China–US Journal of Humanities, Issue 8 (November 2023).

“Perspectives on the Tea Industry,” The Tea House Times, www.theteahousetimes.com, 2020.

“The Global Tea Initiative at UC Davis,” in Kunbing Xiao, Guest Editor, “China Connections: Chinese Tea and Asian Societies,” IIAS Newsletter (International Institute for Asian Studies), Center for Global Asian, ed., Leiden University, No. 80, Summer 2018, p. 23.

Exhibitions Curated at UC Davis

Supervising curator, Tea and Peace: Bringing Communities Together, selections from the Global Tea Institute Collection of Art and Material Culture. Special Collections, Shields Library, UC Davis, Winter Quarter 2025.

Supervising curator, Heaven and Earth in a Small Pot, selections from the Global Tea Institute Collection of Art and Material Culture. Special Collections, Shields Library, UC Davis, Winter Quarter 2024.

Supervising curator, Old Traditions, New Trends: Tea and Wine in Japanese Art and Design, UC Davis Conference Center, January 16-17, 2020, UC Davis Conference Center, January 16–17, 2020.

Tea-related Japanese Ceramics in the Global Tea Initiative, donated by and loaned from the Gerhard Simmel Family and An Anonymous Donor, UC Davis Conference Center, February 22–23, 2018.

Supervising curator, The Art of Tea: texts from Special Collections, Shields Library, and Calligraphy by Wingchi Ip. UC Davis Shields Library, November 21, 2013–March 2014.

The Art of Wingchi Ip, Tea Master, Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, November 21–December 15, 2013.

Calligraphy of Lampo Leong, Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis. October 8–December 12, 2010.

Visualizing Revolution: Propaganda Posters from the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989, Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, April 3–May 18, 2008, co-curated with Yang Peiming, Owner/Director, Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre, China.

Book and Exhibition Reviews

David Clarke, China – Art – Modernity: A Critical Introduction to Chinese Visual Expression from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century to the Present Day, University of Hawaii Press, 2020, in China Review International: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China, 25.2, pp. 113–115.

Michael Sullivan, The Night Entertainments of Han Xizai: A Scroll by Gu Hongzhong, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, in China Review International: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 245-247.

Montien Boonma: Temple of the Mind, exhibition organized by the Asia Society, New York. Review of installation at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, February 25–May 23, 2004, for CAA.Reviews, November 4, 2004.

Stephen Little, ed., Taoism and the Arts of China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), in CAA.ReviewsJuly, 2002, 3 pp.

Michael Sullivan, Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 11, no. 2, Fall 1999, pp. 186-192.

The Jade Studio: Masterpieces of Ming and Qing Painting and Calligraphy from the Wong Nan-p’ing Collection (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1994), in Newsletter, East Asian Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan, September 1995, pp. 28-31.

 

Interviews (video, print, radio, television)

Video Interview with Bryan A. Anthony, Senior Writer, Annual and Special Gifts Program, UC Davis Development and Alumni Relations, Davis Chancellor’s Club Insider’s Tour: “A Bevy of Beverages,” Special Collections Wine Room, Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, UC Davis, May 10, 2025.

Maria Sestito, “Global Tea Institute Celebrates 10th Anniversary: Upcoming Colloquium Brings Together Peace, Tea and Community,” UC Davis Letters and Science,  https://lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/arts-humanities/10-years-global-tea, January 06, 2025.

Michael French, media release, January 2024.

Babette Donaldson, “9th Annual GTI Colloquium: Tea In A Changing World (2024), The Global Tea Initiative Becomes The Global Tea Institute, Posted By T Ching | Dec 31, 2023, https://tching.com/2023/12/9th-annual-gti-colloquium-tea-in-a-changing-world-2024/?swcfpc=1 .

Live interview on GTI’s 8th Annual Colloquium, Tea and Value, with Dr. Andy Jones, Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour, KDVS, January 18, 2023.

Live interview, “Insight with Vicki Gonzalez,” Capital Public Radio, Sacramento, January 17, 2023.

Jeffrey Day, “From Mental Health to Insect Damage, Colloquium Examines Tea’s Value,” UC Davis Letters and Science, https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/news/colloquium-examines-teas-value, January 10, 2023.

“Tea and Grains,” The Good Food Hour, Interview with Co-hosts Steve Garner and Chef John Ash, KSRO Radio (Santa Rosa/NorCal), live Dec. 4, 2021; https://www.ksro.com/episode/tea-and-grains/.

Interviewed by Benjy Egel for Chop it up, “What’s brewing at UC Davis: Global Tea Initiative studies one of our most popular drinks,” Sacramento Bee, Nov. 19, 2021.

“A Tea with Li: Li Shifeng cha tan lu 李世锋茶谈录,” Interview with Shifeng Li, Gongfu Master and Tea Master, Zhengzhou, Henan, August 4, 2021, Zoom recording.

Interview as winner of O-Cha Pioneer Award, World Green Tea Association, Shizuoka Prefectural Government, Japan, Summer 2021.

Interview about GTI with Ryan Miller, journalist, SacTown Magazine, August 3, 2021.

Interviewed for Ashley Han, “Beverage Experts Shape the Future of Four Popular Drinks,” In Greater Focus, Office of Development and Alumni Relations, UC Davis, 2021. 

“Growing Tea in the USA,” interview with Anne-Marie Hardie, Tea and Coffee, May 7, 2021.

Interview with Emily Kelly, for course in Media Studies, undergrad, Syracuse University, March 19, 2020.

Live interview with Dr. Naomi Janowitz, KDVS, February 4, 2020.

Live interview with Dr. Andy Jones on GTI’s 5th Annual Colloquium, The Great Debate: Discussions on Tea and Wine, Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour, KDVS, January 15, 2020.

Interview with Daryl Armstrong, Flamingo Group, August 1, 2019, marketing interview.

Interview with Shawn R. Jackson, UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, June 26, 2019.

Interview with Kora Lovdahl, East Lyn High School, April 8, 2019

Interview with Gail Gastelu, Owner/Publisher, The Tea House Times, January 24, 2019.

Interviews with Dan Bolton and coverage in World Tea News, Tea Biz, STiR and Tea Journey, January 24, 2019.

Live interview with Dr. Andy Jones, Dr. Andy's Poetry and Technology Hour, KDVS, https://archives.kdvs.org/archives/2019-01-23_5318_320kbps.mp3, January 23, 2019.

Michelle Wong, “Calling All Tea Lovers: An interest in teapots grew into the Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science,” The Aggie, February 22, 2019, https://theaggie.org/2019/02/22/calling-all-tea-lovers/ .

UC Davis News, “UC Davis will host ‘Future of Tea’ symposium,”

https://theaggie.org/2019/02/22/calling-all-tea-lovers/

https://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/uc-davis-will-host-future-of-tea-symposium/, February 2018.

http://worldteanews.com/editors-choice/uc-davis-4th-annual-gti-colloquium-covers-body-mind-and-spirit

http://worldteanews.com/editors-choice/colloquium-addresses-issues-surrounding-tea-and-health?NL=WTM-001&Issue=WTM-001_20190129_WTM-001_333&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_1_1

https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/blog/growing-california-tea-industry

https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/guide/chachat/

https://www.theteahousetimes.com/tools/ca/tea?VIEW+20190124+BtvXi

https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/blog/growing-california-tea-industry

https://www.freshcup.com/uc-davis-global-tea-initiative-wants-to-bust-myths-about-tea-and-health/

https://californiaagtoday.com/tag/global-tea-initiative/

https://www.yourwebempire.com/tools/bg/tea/lDnUc3zR/EVENT--amp--NEWS--Global-Tea-Initiative-4th-Annual-Colloquium-on-Body--Mind--Spirit--Issues-Surrounding-Tea-and-Health-set-for-24-Jan-2019

https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article224861655.html

https://www.teaandcoffee.net/blog/21841/from-initiative-to-institute/

https://theaggie.org/2019/02/22/asucd-election-results-econ-now-stem-major-nba-all-star-game-recap-your-weekly-briefing/

https://stir-tea-coffee.com/tea-report/uc-davis-tea-initiative/

https://californiaagtoday.com/global-tea-initiative-uc-davis/

http://eng.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp/news-events/20190107/

https://stir-tea-coffee.com/tea-report/tocklai-partners-with-uc-davis/

http://blog.tealet.com/post/182221158424/today-we-start-our-journey-to-uc-davis-to-engage

“Zhang Daqian and the hot auction market for Chinese art,” Live interview on THE POINT, CGTN/China Global TV Network (formerly CCTV-NEWS), June 13, 2017. Complete session:  https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=Rs6sywa8FjA; Burnett interview segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5AehvxY65A .

Research and the Global Tea Initiative at UC Davis,” Live interview, Vietnam TV, Dec. 12, 2016.

https://theaggie.org/2016/05/18/a-global-tea-party/

Narsai David, “Much To Learn At Xiamen, China’s International Tea Forum,” https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/10/31/much-to-learn-at-xiamen-chinas-international-tea-forum/

Quoted (p. 149) in Yin Hwong 黃韻, “Ying lun bo fang Ellen Johnston Laing: teli duxing de yishu shi nu xianzhi 英倫專訪Ellen Johnston Laing: 特立獨行的藝術女先知 (Interview on Ellen Johnston Laing: Maverick Woman Art History Prophet,” Dian cang 典藏 (Art & Collection), October 2010, No. 217, pp. 144–153.

External Links

Global Tea Institute for the Study of Tea Culture and Science - https://globaltea.ucdavis.edu/

Japanese, Korean, and Chinese Responses to Japanese Expansionism in the Early 20th Century, East Asian Studies Program Colloquium, UC Davis, April 29, 2016

East Asian Studies, https://eastasian.ucdavis.edu/people/katharine-burnett

Education and Degree(s)
  • Ph.D., University of Michigan
  • M.A., University of Michigan
  • B.A., Wellesley College
  • Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Global Tea Studies, world’s first and only book series dedicated to the study of tea across the disciplines, Brill (est. 2024)
Honors and Awards
  • 2019 Nomination: Best Tea Educator – Individual, World Tea Expo, Las Vegas
  • 2018 Best Tea Health Advocate, World Tea Expo, Las Vegas
  • 2017 38th Annual George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award from Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), for 17th-Century Chinese Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection, edited by Stephen Little (2016). Katharine Burnett, contributing author.
Publications
  • Books
  • Shaping Chinese Art History: Pang Yuanji and His Painting Collection, Cambria Press, forthcoming. Dimensions of Originality: Essays on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Theory and Criticism, Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 2013.
  • Dimensions of Originality: Essays on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Theory and Criticism, Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 2013.
  • Edited Volume
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue: “Decadence (or Not) in the Ming Dynasty,” Ming Studies 71 (May 2015)
  • Articles and chapters
  • “Art History without the Art: The Curious Case of Sino-Vietnamese Teapots before 1700,” in preparation.
  • “Dong Qichang,” co-author (section on Dong’s theory) with Celia Carrington Riely, Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. In press.
  • “Wu Bin.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. In press.
  • “The Global Tea Initiative at UC Davis,” in Kunbing Xiao, Guest Editor, “China Connections: Chinese Tea and Asian Societies,” IIAS Newsletter (International Institute for Asian Studies), Center for Global Asian, ed., Leiden University, No. 80, Summer 2018, p. 23.
  • “A New Look at a New Look: Painting and Theory of Seventeenth-Century China,” in Stephen Little, ed., 17th-Century Chinese Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016, pp. 130-167.
  • “Decadence (or Not) in the Ming Dynasty: Introduction,” for Special Issue, “Decadence (or Not) in the Ming Dynasty,” Ming Studies, 71, (May 2015), pp. 3-4.
  • “Decadence Disrupted: Arguing Against a Decadence Model in Late Ming Painting History,” for Special Issue, “Decadence (or Not) in the Ming Dynasty,” Ming Studies, 71 (May 2015), pp. 41-57.
  • “Of Icons and Elvises: ‘Tibetan Spirit’ in Tsherin Sherpa’s New Art,” feature essay in Tsherin Sherpa: Tibetan Spirit, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, October 2012, pp. 4-15.
  • “Tibetan Buddhist Art in a Globalized World of Illusion: The Contemporary Art of Ang Tsherin Sherpa,” “西藏藝術在跨國化清淨的世界: 安才仁的當代畫,”in Elizabeth Childs-Johnson and Ying-Ying Lai, Guest Eds., Special Issue: “Art and Politics in Today’s China and Taiwan,” Modern Chinese Studies,[當代中國研究], vol. 18, no. 2, 2011, pp. 1-28.
  • “Mixing Water and Oil: Understanding Shimo in the Contemporary Global Art Market,” in Bin Feng and Shen Kuiyi, eds., Selected Essays from the International Symposium in Conjunction with Reboot, the Third Chengdu Biennale: the Third Chengdu Biennale, 重新启动: 第三届成都双年展 国际学术研讨会论文集 暨第一,二届成都双年展论文选 (Chong xin qi dong : di san jie Chengdu shuang nian zhan guo ji
  • “Mixing Water and Oil: Understanding Shimo in the Contemporary Global Art Market,” Kuiyi Shen and Feng Bin, eds., Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennial, Proceedings from the International Symposium, Chengdu, China, 2007, pp. 74-79.
  • “Mixing Water and Oil: Understanding Shimo in the Contemporary Global Art Market,” (Chinese version and English reprint) in Shimo, The Colors from My Heart: The Art of Shimo, 石墨,赋随彩心:石墨作品集, Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2011, pp. 24-34.
  • “Mixing Water and Oil: Understanding Shimo in the Contemporary Global Art Market” (Chinese version and English reprint) in Shimo, Heaven: The Collection of Shi Mo’s Contemporary Painting. Shenzhen, China: Author Gallery, 2008, pp. 5-11.
  • “Lin Fengmian’s Legacy during the Cultural Revolution: The Case of Two Rebellious Watercolors,” Proceedings from the International Lin Fengmian 110th Anniversary Symposium, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, 2010, pp. 115-127.
  • “A Proclamation of Originality: Wu Bin’s On the Way to Shanyin Handscroll,” Oriental Art, Vol. 51, No 1 (Spring, 2010), pp. 2-11.
  • “An Originalist’s Manifesto: Wu Bin’s inscription on On the Way to Shanyin,” Oriental Art, Vol. 51, No 2 (Summer, 2010), pp. 2-7.
  • “Inventing a New ‘Old Tradition’: Chinese Art at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition,” 《美術史與觀念史》 (Meishu shi yu guannian shi)/History of Art and History of Ideas, Nanjing: Nanjing Shifan University, April 2010, vol. ix, pp. 17-57.
  • “Late Qing-Early Republican Period Taste and the Case of Pang Yuanji,” The Elegant Gathering: The Yeh Family Collection symposium website, http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/details.php?webcastid=15762, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, and University of California, Berkeley, 2006.
  • “Through Masters’ Eyes: Copying and Originality in Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting,” Shanshui in Twentieth Century China, Shanghai: Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House, 2006, pp. 317-334.
  • “Travel and Transformation: Wu Bin’s Enjoying Scenery along the Min River,” Oriental Art, vol. L, no. 4, (Winter 2006), pp. 2-15.
  • “晚明中國畫論中的獨創性話語,”(Wanming Zhongguo hualunzhongde duchuangxing huayu; a synthesis of “A Discourse of Originality in Late Ming Chinese Painting Criticism”), 《清華美術》 (Tsinghua Arts), Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, juan 2, 2006, pp. 62-68.
  • “Words on Word-Images: An Aspect of Dong Qichang’s Calligraphy Criticism,” Word & Image, vol. 19, no. 4, (October-December, 2003), 327-335.
  • “Taking Arts of Asia Online,” Education About Asia, vol. 8, no. 3 (Winter 2003), 26-29.
  • “Taking Arts of Asia Online,” republished in book format in: Ainslee Embree, Brian Platt, Helen Finken, and Robert L. Moore.
  • “To Live”: An Interview with the Author Yu Hua, Book Review and Film Review,” Education about Asia, vol. 8, no. 3, 2003.
  • “A Discourse of Originality in Late Ming Chinese Painting Criticism,” Art History, vol. 23. no. 4 (November 2000), 522-558.
  • Individual Status and the Family. Signs and Seats of Power in African Art, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1986, pp. 17-20.
  • Symbols of Significance: Motifs in Chinese Art. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1989, exhibition brochure, 7 pp.
  • Chinese Ceramics in the Domino’s Collection. Ann Arbor: Fencepost, (December 1989), pp. 12-13.
  • Book Reviews
  • Michael Sullivan, The Night Entertainments of Han Xizai: A Scroll by Gu Hongzhong, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, in China Review International: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 245-247.
  • Stephen Little, ed., Taoism and the Arts of China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), in CAA.Reviews, http://www.caareviews.org/, July, 2002, 3 pp.
  • Michael Sullivan, Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 11, no. 2, Fall 1999, pp. 186-192.
  • The Jade Studio: Masterpieces of Ming and Qing Painting and Calligraphy from the Wong Nan-p’ing Collection (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1994), in Newsletter, East Asian Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan, September 1995, pp. 28-31.
  • Exhibition Review
  • Montien Boonma: Temple of the Mind, exhibition organized by the Asia Society, New York. Review of installation at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, February 25-May 23, 2004, for CAA.Reviews, http://www.caareviews.org/, November 4, 2004.
  • Media Interviews
  • “Zhang Daqian and the hot auction market for Chinese art,” Live interview on THE POINT, CGTN/China Global TV Network (formerly CCTV-NEWS), June 13, 2017.
  • Complete session: https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=Rs6sywa8FjA; Burnett interview segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5AehvxY65A . “Research and the Global Tea Initiative at UC Davis,” Live interview, Vietnam TV, Dec. 12, 2016.