Dr. Yoko Hsueh Shirai
Dr. Yoko Hsueh Shirai received her PhD in Japanese Art from UCLA, and enjoys living and teaching Asian art in Los Angeles. She has taught at UCLA, Otis College of Art & Design, USC, and Occidental College. She remains grateful to Japan Foundation for awarding her a doctoral fellowship to study Buddhist statuary excavated from the ruins of temples dating to the 7th and 8th centuries C.E., and especially her host institution, Nara kenritsu Kashihara Kokogaku Kenkyujo (Nara prefectural Archaeological Institute of Kashihara). What she learned from that experience, in addition to the contacts she made, serve as the basis of her publications on Early Japan.
