Jessica Rawson
Dame Jessica Rawson Sir Martin Taylor | |
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Born | Jessica Mary Quirk 20 January 1943 |
Nationality | English |
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New Hall, Cambridge University of London | |
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Discipline | Art history and Sinology |
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Dame Jessica Mary Rawson,
After many years at the British Museum, she was Warden (head) of Merton College, Oxford, from 1994 until her retirement in 2010.[1] She served as pro-vice-chancellor at University of Oxford from 2006 for a term of five years.[2]
Biography
Rawson's academic background is in
Between 1976 and 1994, she served as Deputy Keeper and then Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the
Rawson contributed with
From 2011 to 2016, Rawson headed a project at the
Honours
Rawson is a Fellow of the
In 2012, Rawson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Foreign Honorary Member.[9]
In May 2017 she was awarded the Charles Lang Freer Medal in recognition of her lifetime's contribution to the study of Chinese art and archaeology.[10] In 2022 she received the Tang Prize in Sinology.[11]
Personal life
Rawson does not allow students to call her by first name, but instead instructs them to call her "President" or "Professor Rawson."
Rawson is married with one daughter.[12]
Bibliography
- Chinese pots 7th-13th century AD (1977) London: British Museum Publications.
- Ancient China, art and archaeology (1980) London: British Museum Publications.
- The Chinese Bronzes of Yunnan (1983) London and Beijing: Sidgwick and Jackson.
- Chinese ornament: The lotus and the dragon (1984) London: British Museum Publications
- Chinese bronzes: Art and ritual (1987) London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum in association with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia.
- Chinese jade from the Neolithic to the Qing (1995) London: British Museum Press.
- Mysteries of Ancient China (1996) London: British Museum Press.
- China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795 (2005) London: Royal Academy of Arts.
- The British Museum Book of Chinese Art (2 ed.). British Museum Press. 2007.
- "Miniature Bronzes from Western Zhou tombs at Baoji in Shaanxi Province". Radiance between Bronzes and Jades—Archaeology, Art and Culture of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. 2013. pp. 23–66.
- "Ordering the exotic: ritual practices in the Late Western and Early Eastern Zhou". Artibus Asiae. 73 (1): 5–76. 2013.
- Rawson, J. (2017). "Shimao and Erlitou: new perspectives on the origins of the bronze industry in central China". Antiquity. 91 (355). .
References
- ^ Profile Archived 10 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Oxford University Gazette, 12 February 2009; retrieved October 2010.
- ^ "Dame Jessica Rawson (Biographical details)". British Museum. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- ^ Jessica Rawson, Mysteries of Ancient China: New Discoveries from the Early Dynasties (London, 1996).
- ISBN 978-1-903973-69-1
- ^ Scholarly reviews of the exhibition's intellectual legacy are awaited, threeemperors.org.uk; accessed 29 February 2016.
- ^ "China and Inner Asia Project". OCAAAC. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- ^ "Project partners". FLAME. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- ^ "Honours for England: London and the South". BBC. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ "Professor Dame Jessica Rawson elected to American Academy". Oxford University. 18 April 2012. Archived from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
- ^ "Dame Professor Jessica Rawson To Be Awarded the Charles Lang Freer Medal". 19 May 2017. Archived from the original on 15 June 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ Tang Prize 2022
- ^ "Object lesson". Times Higher Ecucation. 15 December 1995. Retrieved 27 January 2017.