Former CAEA Associate Director Katherine Tsiang’s Projects Seek to Conserve Heritage Sites and Art for 6th Century Buddhist Cave Temples at Xiangtangshan

Former Associate Director of The University of Chicago Center for the Art of East Asia, Katherine Tsiang, has been working for decades on the conservation of heritage sites and art in a groundbreaking project that involves the sixth-century Buddhist cave temples at remote Xiangtangshan, or Mountain of Echoing Halls, in China’s northern Hebei province. 

Though having retired earlier this year, her work continues now serving as a consultant to the Center. Her team has tracked and scanned the dispersed fragments of sculpture and the original sites using advanced 2D and 3D imaging technologies to produce digital reconstructions of the caves that date to the short-lived Northern Qi dynasty (AD550-577).

Read more about her work and the ongoing project by clicking here.

Contributed by South China Morning Post