Sizhao Yi

Biography

Sizhao Yi is a PhD candidate in East Asian art specializing in the visual and material culture of Late Imperial China. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Between Object and Subject: The Visual Discourse of Things in the Works of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652)”, engages with issues of material and materiality, image making, intermediality, and the agency of things through the lenses of Chen Hongshou’s artistic practices and his engagements with material artifacts. Prior to starting her PhD, she has received a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Hong Kong, and an MA from the University of Chicago. She has interned at the textile conservation department in the Archaeology Institute at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and worked as a freelance journalist at Quartz.