Biography
Yan JIN is a PhD candidate in East Asian art history, specializing in the visual and material culture of late imperial China. Her research revolves around issues of craft and embodied knowledge, intermediality, and cross-regional exchanges. She is now completing her dissertation, tentatively titled “Power Play: Objects and Intermedial Experiments at Emperor Yongzheng’s Court, 1723-1735,” which investigates the emperor’s reform of imperial art production system and its implications on the visual and material qualities, conceptual understanding, and performance of court objects in the Qing empire. She holds a BA in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA from the University of Chicago.