Bohan Li

Biography

Bohan Li is a Ph.D. student in late imperial Chinese art. Her current interests center on the interplay between ceramic decoration and other forms of pictorial arts, engaging issues of image-medium relations, materiality, and painting techniques during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Her broader interests include visual technology, art viewing, description, and collecting practices, as well as the theory of Chinese painting and the critical historiography of the discipline. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, she received BA and MA degrees in Archaeology from Peking University.