Nancy S. Steinhardt

{{Short description|American architectural historian (born 1954)}}{{Infobox academic

| image = Nancy Steinhardt Keynote for Whitworth University Library.jpg

| caption = Steinhardt speaks in 2021

| education = Washington University in St. Louis

| alma_mater = Harvard University (PhD)

| discipline = Chinese architectural historian

| thesis_year = 1981

| thesis_title = Imperial Architecture Under Mongolian Patronage

| workplaces = University of Pennsylvania

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|07|14}}

}}

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt (born July 14, 1954) is an American historian of Chinese architecture. Introduced to Chinese architecture by Nelson Ikon Wu, she studied at Harvard University, becoming a Harvard Fellow and receiving her PhD in 1981. She began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983, and became a curator of the Penn Museum in 1998. She received a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001, and an Alice Davis Hitchcock Award in 2021 for her book China: An Architectural History.

Biography

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt was born on July 14, 1954.{{cite web |title=Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84165177.html |website=Library of Congress Linked Data Service |access-date=30 September 2024}} Learning Chinese in her youth, she did undergraduate study at Washington University in St. Louis, where she was introduced to Chinese art and architecture by professor Nelson Ikon Wu. In 1974, she began graduate study at Harvard University. Seeking to explore subjects outside of painting, the typical focus of Chinese art programs in the United States, she studied the temple of Yongle Gong for her master's thesis. She was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1978 to 1981. She received her PhD in 1981, with her doctoral thesis Imperial Architecture Under Mongolian Patronage focusing on the Yuan dynasty city of Khanbaliq. She began teaching at Bryn Mawr College after receiving her doctorate, concurrently teaching at the University of Pennsylvania the following year.{{sfn|Steinhardt|2019|pp=viii–ix}}{{sfn|Olszewski|2008|pp=4–5}}{{Sfn|Steinhardt|2023}}

Leaving Bryn Mawr, Steinhardt became an assistant professor of East Asian art in 1983, replacing Schuyler Cammann upon his retirement. She was able to visit China, previously closed to western academics, for the first time that year.{{sfn|Steinhardt|2019|pp=viii–ix}}{{sfn|Olszewski|2008|pp=4–5}}{{Sfn|Steinhardt|2023}} She was promoted to an associate professorship in 1991, and an associate curator of Chinese art at the Penn Museum in 1994. Four years later, she was promoted to professor and curator. She became a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001. She published China: An Architectural History in 2019, for which she received the 2021 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award.{{sfn|Olszewski|2008|pp=4–5}}{{cite web |title=Nancy S. Steinhardt |url=https://ealc.sas.upenn.edu/people/nancy-s-steinhardt |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=30 September 2024}}

Bibliography

=Books=

==As author==

{{cite book|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|publisher=China Institute|date=1984|isbn=9780295967905|location=New York|title=Chinese Traditional Architecture|ref=none}}
{{cite book|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=Chinese Imperial City Planning|date=1990|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|location=Honolulu|isbn=9780824821968|ref=none}}
{{cite book|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=Liao Architecture|date=1997|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|location=Honolulu|isbn=9780824818432|ref=none}}
{{cite book|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200-600|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|date=2014|isbn=9780824838225|location=Honolulu|ref=none}}
{{cite book|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=China's Early Mosques|date=2019|publisher=University of Edinburgh Press|isbn=9781474472852|ref=none}}
{{cite book|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=Chinese Architecture: A History|date=2019|isbn=9780691191973|publisher=Princeton University Press}}
{{cite book|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=The Borders of Chinese Architecture|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge|date=2022|isbn=9780674269576|series=Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures|ref=none}}
{{cite book|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire|date=2023|isbn=9780691253350|publisher=Princeton University Press|ref=none}}
{{cite book|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years|publisher=ORO Editions|isbn=9781961856073|date=2024|ref=none}}

==As editor==

{{cite book|editor-first=Nancy S.|editor-last=Steinhardt|publisher=Yale University Press|location=New Haven|date=2002|isbn=9780300095593|ref=none|title=Chinese Architecture}}
{{cite book|editor-first1=Victor H.|editor-last1=Mair|editor-first2=Nancy S.|editor-last2=Steinhardt|editor-first3=Paul R.|editor-last3=Goldin|title=Hawaii Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|location=Honolulu|date=2005|isbn=9780824852351|ref=none}}
{{cite book|editor-first1=Jeffery W.|editor-last1=Cody|editor-first2=Nancy S.|editor-last2=Steinhardt|editor-first3=Tony|editor-last3=Atkin|title=Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts|publisher= University of Hawai'i Press|location=Honolulu|date=2011|isbn= 9780824861018|ref=none}}
{{cite book|first=Xinan|last=Fu|editor-first=Nancy S.|editor-last=Steinhardt|title=Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=2017|isbn=9780691159997|ref=none}}

=Articles=

{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=The Plan of Khubilai Khan's Imperial City|journal=Artibus Asiae|volume=44|issue=2/3|date=1983|pages=137–158 |doi=10.2307/3249595 |jstor=3249595 |ref=none}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=Zhu Haogu Reconsidered: A New Date for the ROM Painting and the Southern Shanxi Buddhist-Daoist Style|journal=Artibus Asiae|volume=48|issue=1|date=1987|pages=5–38 |doi=10.2307/3249850 |jstor=3249850 |ref=none}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=Imperial Architecture along the Mongolian Road to Dadu|journal=Ars Orientalis|volume=18|date=1990|ref=none}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=The Mizong Hall of Qinglong Si: Ritual, Space, and Classicism in Tang Architecture|journal=Archives of Asian Art|date=1991|volume=41|ref=none}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=The Temple to the Northern Peak in Quyang|journal=Artibus Asiae|volume=58|issue=1/2|date=1998|pages=69–90 |doi=10.2307/3249995 |jstor=3249995 |ref=none}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=Beijing: City and Ritual Complex|journal=Silk Road Art and Archaeology|volume=7|date=2001|ref=none}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|ref=none|title=China: Designing the Future, Venerating the Past|journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians|volume=60|issue=4|date=2002}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|ref=none|title=Changchuan Tomb No. 1 and Its North Asian Context|journal=Journal of East Asian Archaeology|date=2003|volume=4|issue=1/2}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|ref=none|title=A Jin Hall at Jingtusi: Architecture in Search of Identity|journal=Ars Orientalis|volume=33|date=2003}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|ref=none|title=The Tang Architectural Icon and the Politics of Chinese Architectural History|journal=The Art Bulletin|volume=86|issue=2|date=2004|pages=228–254 |doi=10.2307/3177416 |jstor=3177416 }}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|ref=none|title=Shishi, a Stone Structure Associated with Abaoji in Zuzhou|journal=Asia Major |series=Third Series |date=2007|volume=19|issue=1–2}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|ref=none|title=Yuan Dynasty Tombs and Their Inscriptions|journal=Ars Orientalis|volume=37|date=2007}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|ref=none|title=China's Earliest Mosques|journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians|date=2008|volume=67|issue=3|pages=330–361 |doi=10.1525/jsah.2008.67.3.330 }}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|ref=none|title=The Sixth Century in East Asian Architecture|journal=Ars Orientalis|date=2011|volume=39}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|ref=none|title=Chinese Architectural History in the 21st Century|journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians|volume=73|issue=1|date=2014|doi=10.1525/jsah.2014.73.1.38 }}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|ref=none|title=Transnational Asian Architectural History|journal=Ars Orientalis|volume=45|date=2015|doi=10.3998/ars.13441566.0045.006 }}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|ref=none|title=Convergence and Entanglement: Reconsidering the Mongol Architectural Narrative|journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians|volume=82|issue=2|date=2023|pages=130–149 |doi=10.1525/jsah.2023.82.2.130 }}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=The Pagoda in Kherlen Bars: New Understandings of Khitan-period Towering Pagodas|journal=Archives of Asian Art|date=2016|volume=66|issue=2 |pages=187–212 |doi=10.1353/aaa.2016.0016 |ref=none}}
{{cite journal|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|title=Shoroon Bumbagar|journal=Artibus Asiae|volume=80|issue=2|date=2020|ref=none}}

References

=Works cited=

{{cite interview|title=Nancy S. Steinhardt on Traditional Chinese Architecture|publisher=China Social Sciences Press|website=Chinese Social Sciences Net|url=http://english.cssn.cn/skw_dialogue/202303/t20230310_5654064.shtml|date=March 3, 2023|first=Nancy S.|last=Steinhardt|interviewer=Chu Guofei|access-date=September 30, 2024}}
{{cite news|newspaper=Expedition Magazine|publisher=Penn Museum|volume=50|issue=3|date=2008|url=https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/nancy-s-steinhardt-curator-of-chinese-art-asian-section/|pages=4–5|title=Meet the Curators: Nancy S. Steinhardt|first=Deborah I.|last=Olszewski}}

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