WANG Yizhou (PhD, Chinese art history, Heidelberg University) is Research Assistant Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts, School of Creative Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. Before her doctoral study, she studied Japanese and Korean art history at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and received M.Litt. in Arts of China from the University of Glasgow. She worked for two exhibition projects at the Calligraphy and Painting Department, The Palace Museum, Beijing. She was a visiting research associate at Kyoto University and then the University of Tokyo in 2017 and 2018.
WANG Yizhou’s research interests include Chinese paintings (especially 14th – 17th centuries), Ming-Qing visual and material culture, gender studies, women artists, (self-)portraiture, courtesan culture, Sino-Japanese art interactions, plant humanities, and early-twentieth-century photography on/by women (China and Korea).
Her doctoral dissertation (2015–2022, Heidelberg University) “The Enticing Thatched Hut: Courtesans and Gendered Bodies in Jiangnan Pictorial Spaces (14th – 17th Centuries)” (summa cum laude) focuses on female (self-)representations in early modern Chinese paintings through the lens of gender. She was awarded a Research Fellowship to undertake her project “Voices of Nature and Landscape in Artful Spaces of Transitions: From Ming-Qing to Contemporary China” under the German BMBF-funded joint project “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China” at the Joint Centre for Advanced Studies, Germany. She was also a virtual faculty resident of Plant Humanities Initiative at Dumbarton Oaks (trustees for Harvard University). She has published peer-viewed articles in Ming Qing Studies, Research on Women in Modern Chinese History, Chung Cheng Chinese Studies, and edited volumes since 2014.
Current Co-Supervision of Postgraduate Students:
JIANG Haoran (PhD): Chinese antiquarianism, visual and material culture in early-twentieth-century
JIA Yinan (PhD): Women’s self-representations in Renaissance Venice
HO Wai Lam William (MPhil): Contemporary Chinese calligraphy
我相信在面對某件藝術作品或某個話題時，每一個人都具備產生獨特共鳴及有力量的想法的潛能。這種內在共鳴是激發新的觀念與創作的源泉。在課堂上，我激勵學生去重新審視實物和一手材料，發掘自己獨特而鮮活的視角，自由地回應與表達想法。