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Joan Lebold Cohen is an art historian and photographer who specializes in Chinese Art and Film. A sometime resident in China, Hong Kong and Japan, she has been a regular visitor to Asia since 1961. Her travels to China commenced in China soon after Nixon's visit and she lived there during the dramatic, post Cultural Revolution period of 1979-81. Her book The New Chinese Painting, 1949-1986, introduced the recent generations of Chinese artists to the West. She has served as curator for four exhibitions of new Chinese art as well as a photographic exhibition entitled 'New York, the City and Its People' shown in Beijing. Her other books are Yunnan School, A Renaissance in Chinese Painting; Angkor, Monuments of the God-Kings; and Buddha.

Ms. Cohen is co-author with her husband, Jerome Alan Cohen, of China Today and Her Ancient Treasures (3rd ed. 1986). She is both author and photographer in three of the aforementioned books, and her work has been also published in many other magazines and journals. Her photographs have been widely exhibited and published and are represented in public and private collections in the U. S. and Asia. Ms. Cohen was a lecturer at Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for 22 years and she is currently a research fellow at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies. She is also an associate of the Columbia University Modern China Seminar.