Academic History
- Ph. D. in Art History, University of Chicago
- M.A. in Art History, University of Louisville
- B.A. in French Language and Literature, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China
Academic Focus
Modern Chinese art and architecture, East Asian interregional art history, and diasporic art and architecture, with a focus on the interplay of spatial practices and visual culture in transcultural contexts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
Courses Taught
- The Arts of China
- Topics in Asian Art/Chinese, Japanese, and Other Gardens
- Japanese Prints
Selected Research and Publications
- 鈥淐urating and Displaying Architecture: 鈥楥hina Architectural Exhibition鈥� in Shanghai, 1936,鈥� in Histories, Politics, and Practices: Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia, ed. by Michelle Huang and Selina Ho, Lingnan University, Amsterdam University Press, January 2025.
- Chengshi yuanjing: 1850-1930 niandai Shanghai dushi yu shijue wenhua (The City鈥檚 Pleasures: Urban and Visual Culture of Garden Spaces in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s). Beijing: The Commerce Press, forthcoming.
- 鈥淓rshi shijie sanshi niandai de Shanghai bailemen wuting: yige xiandai yule jianzhu de jiangou yu dushi shehui kongjian de tuozhan鈥� ("Constructing a Modern Architectural and Social Space: The Paramount Ballroom in 1930s Shanghai"). New Architecture (June 2017): 25-29.
- 鈥淪hanghai bailemen wuting鈥� ("Shanghai Ballrooms"), in Zhongguo jindai jianzhu shi (The History of Modern Chinese Architecture), ed. Lai Delin, Wu Jiang, and Xu Subin, 2016 (4): 156-173, Beijing: Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe.
- 鈥淗ebei chutu de baizhanting jinbi ji xiangguan wenti tantao鈥� ("Discussion of the Gold Coins of Byzantium from Hebei Province and Other Related Problems"), in Journal of National Museum of China, 2007 (3): 15-25.
Awards and Honors
- A.W. Mellon Chicago Objects Study Initiative (COSI) Advanced Writing Fellowship, Department of Asian Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 2020-21
- Kei-on Chan Dissertation Prize in Modern Chinese Studies, Center for East Asia Studies, University of Chicago, 2020-21
- The University of Chicago/Getty Dissertation Fellowship in Chinese Art History, 2018-19
- A.W. Mellon COSI Curatorial Fellowship, Departments of Asian Art & European Decorative Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, 2017-18