Roger Covey
Evanston
President, Tang Research Foundation 唐研究基金会.
Recent and forthcoming publications
Author: "Canon Formation and the Development of Western Chinese Art History," in Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction and Interpretation in the Arts of China (Nick Pearce and Jason Steuber, eds.), University Press of Florida, 2012.
Author: "The Symbolics of Authority, Four Cases in Tang and Liao Silver," in The Journal of Tang Studies 《唐研究》, volume 15, 2009.
Author: "Harrie Vanderstappen: in memoriam," in Monumenta Serica, volume LVI, 2008.
Translation Editor and Translator: Chinese Scholars on Inner Asia, edited by Luo Xin 罗新, Uralic and Altaic Series, volume 174, Indiana University, 2012.
Editor: The Landscape Painting of China: Musings of a Journeyman, by Harrie Vanderstappen, University Press of Florida, forthcoming 2013.
Co-Editor and Translator: Chinese Scholars on the Tang, in process
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"Roger Covey delivers an indispensable study...intellectually stimulating and provocative." He Li 贺 丽, Curator of Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
"Congratulations on this major scholarly achievement." Professor Emeritus Denis Sinor, Indiana University.
"Roger Covey has made us see with new eyes." Professor Rong Xinjiang 荣新江, Peking University.
Education and Honors
University of Chicago: MA in Chinese Art History and MBA; University of Illinois: Bachelor of Science.
Languages (reading): modern Chinese, Latin, German, Russian, classical Chinese.
Elected member of three national honor societies: Добро Слово (national Slavic honor society), Tau Beta Pi, and Beta Gamma Sigma. James Scholar, University of Illinois, eight semesters consecutively.
China National Tang History Society 中国唐史学会, honorary membership.
Personal
Raised two children, adopted in infancy [photographs: London, 2006; Antarctica, 2005; Beijing, 2000].
Residences: Evanston, Illinois, USA; Beijing, China [photograph: main hall in the inner courtyard].
Other Interests: Roman material culture and Stoicism; Samuel Johnson; the New China Realism 中国写实画派; Viking Age society and Old Norse; jazz and baroque music; cooking; travel (70+ countries life-to-date).