Projects
Research across culture, networks, and computational methods
Why “National” and “Western” Painting Categories Endured in Japan but Dissolved in China?
Photos of classroom settings in Tokyo School of Fine Arts Wang, Yangyu, ongoing, single-authored paper. Abstract: This paper asks why boundary-making between “national” and “Western” painting became an enduring classificatory infrastructure in Japan from the late nineteenth century onward, while...
Every Portrait Tells a Story: Tracing Gender Disparities in Paintings, 1400–2024
Face Gender Coefficients on Representations Wang, Yangyu, ongoing, single-authored paper. Abstract: Paintings, unlike photographs, encode gender through pliable, low‑indexical symbols whose social meaning remains largely unmeasured. This study asks whether and how such images reproduce gender hierarchy. Drawing on 159,962...
Simulated Art World: Artist Simulation Based on Generative Models
Process of Artist Simulation Based on Generative AI Wang, Yangyu, 2025, “Simulated Art World: Artist Agent-Based Modeling by Generative Models”, Journal of Intelligent Society 4(3), 180-204+266-267. (In Chinese) 王杨聿，2025，《“模拟艺术界”:基于生成式人工智能的艺术家智能体仿真模拟》，《智能社会研究》第三期。 Click to Copy Citation Abstract: Guided by symbolic-interactionist theory,sociologists of art...
Complex nexus: Economic development, rural-to-urban migration, and transition to adulthood in China
Migration Effect on Transition to Adulthood for Females in China 2008 vs. 2017 Wang, Yangyu, and Felicia F. Tian. 2024. Advances in Life Course Research 62:100633. doi: 10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100633. Click to Copy Citation Abstract: Transition to adulthood in low- and middle-come...
Social Network and Poetry Novelty of Poets in Tang Dynasty
Poets Network in Tang Dynasty (Node Sizes Corresponding the Word Usage Novelty) Abstract: The relationship between social ties and poetry innovation was mentioned by Confucius in his treatise on Poetry, yet few studies have quantitatively analyzed it at a macro...
Changes in the Network of Chinese Values (1990—2018)
Belief Network in Year 2018 of WVS Respondents from Mainland China Tian, Felicia F., Jinfeng Wu, and Yangyu Wang. 2023. Journal of Social Development (Chinese) 10(2):38-56+243. 田丰、 吴锦峰、 王杨聿，2023，《中国价值观念网络的变迁(1990—2018)》，《社会发展研究》第二期。 Click to Copy Citation Abstract: To what extent have China’s economic...