Part of the U of T Getty Connecting Art Histories project, this course examines the arts of medieval China — especially those of the port cities of Guangzhou and Quanzhou — from a multicultural perspective. This course considers how the idea of "medieval art" might be understood with respect to the production of art in China, how such art raises questions about the geography and periodization of native and non-native art forms in China, and how non-native art forms that flourished in China connect to their originating sites and move along the networks of their transmission. While in the past decade art history has embraced the idea of globalization, this seminar seeks to probe the making of medieval Chinese art in postglobal context by introducing the methodological tools of postglobal art history, a new approach to the discipline emerging from developing art histories (i.e., from non-Western nations in which art history has developed as a discipline only since the late 20th century).