Tina Zhen Zhang is a first-year PhD student specializing in Chinese art history. She received her BA and MA from Southeast University (Nanjing, China) and a second MA from the University of Iowa. Her MA qualifying paper, “Reconstructing Southern Song Art History in the Qing Dynasty: Li E and his Catalog of Southern Song Academy Painting,” is a case study on the historical art catalog Nansong yuanhua lu and critically examines the reception history of Southern Song academy painting (from around the 12^th to 13^th century) in the 18^th century. Her research interests include but are not limited to Ming-Qing art, pre-modern art theory and painting catalogs.

Research Interests

• Chinese art history