Prof Chia-ling Yang

Job title:

Personal Chair of Chinese Art

Role:

Programme Director of PhD and MScR in History of Art

C.Yang@ed.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 651 1370

Office:

Room 0.65, Higgitt Gallery, Hunter Building

Research Output:

Edinburgh Research Explorer link

Biography

Professor Chia-Ling Yang obtained her Bachelor's degree in Chinese Literature from the National Taiwan University, followed by a Master's degree in Art History from the University of Warwick and a PhD in Art and Archaeology at the University of London (SOAS). Professor Yang has worked as a visiting scholar at the Academia Sinica and the University of Heidelberg and as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. She has collaborated with various museums on exhibition projects, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum, Musée Cernuschi, The Baur Foundation, the Museum of Far Eastern Art, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art.

Research interests

Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
Modern Art in East Asia
Cross-cultural and Transoceanic Art
Art and Culture of Taiwan

Teaching

Programme Director, PhD and MScR in History of Art
MScR: Supervised Research in History of Art
MSc: Art and Society in Contemporary World-China
MSc: Approaching World Objects
MA and MFA Dissertations
Honours: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy-The Elite World of China
Honours: Analytical Projects on Analysing Art History: Texts, Objects, Institutions
Honours: Modern Art in Shanghai, 1840-1930
Second Year: History of Art 2 Reason, Romance, Revolution: Art from 1700 to 1900
First Year: History of Art 1 Art at the Crossroads of World Cultures 600 to 1700

Research

Professor Yang is a specialist in the field of modern Chinese art, with a focus on the historiography of painting, antiquarianism, and elite culture. Her research also involves the examination of visual culture in East Asia and its connections with the West during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

She welcomes research students interested in Chinese painting and calligraphy, cross-cultural artistic production, and the visual culture of modern and contemporary Chinese art.

Research outputs

For more information on Prof. Yang's research activities, visit her profile on the Edinburgh Research Explorer.

Current PhD students

Shiyu Gao

Technological Body in Becoming: Posthuman, Technology, and Chinese new media art

Bo Peng

Mengxuan Sui

Diversity on Display: A Study on Gentry-Class Women and Their Painting Practice in the Jiangnan Region of High Qing China

Jing Wang

Previous supervision

PhD Supervision

(PhD Awarded) Pi-Fen Chung, Visible and Invisible -The Representation of Heaven in Tangut Esoteric Buddhist Images. Externally funded by Taiwanese Ministry of Education (MOE) Doctorate Scholarship

(2014 - ) Po-Han Yang, Reading Calligraphy from Taiwan: The Anxiety and Transformation of Contemporary Calligraphy. Externally funded by Taiwanese Ministry of Education (MOE) Doctorate Scholarship

(2016 - ) Alina Sinelnyk, Repositioning Contemporary Chinese Ink Medium Art, 1978-2018: Zheng Chongbin – Migration, Internationalisation, Digitisation

(2016 - ) Zi Wang, Tradition-rediscovered and Trans-cultural Dialogues: Chen Shizeng and Peking School of Painting, 1900-1945

(2016 - ) Colin Brady, How the West Came to Know Asia: The Role of Yamanaka and Company, Inc. in Art Dealing at the Wars

(2017 - ) Boram Lee, Reflected Identites: Korean, Taiwanese and Monchukuo Graduates of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts during the Japanese Colonial Period, 1895-1945

(2017- ) Mengxuan Sui, Seeing Pleasure in and out of the Court: The Image of "Beauty" in High Qing Beijing

Past MSc Supervision

(2016) Jian Geng, Sanyu’s Animal: From Chinese Tradition to Western Modernity

(2016) Zhijun Yang, Female Fashion Seen through the Calendar Posters in Shanghai from the 1910s to 1930s

(2015) Nuoyi Chen, The Relationship between Chinese Contemporary Sculpture and the Doctrine of the Mean-With A Case Study of Cai Zhisong

(2015) Siyao Fu, Engaging with the Environment: An Aesthetic Inquiry into the Chinese Environmental Art

(2015) Xi He, Art of the Deal: A Case Study of Cai Guoqiang in Economic Perspective

(2015) Shangyangzi Jing, The Challenges of New Media Art Being Collected by Museums

(2015) Han Lu, Reconstruction of Memory: Chiharu Shiota’s Thread Installations

(2015) Alina Sinelynk, Ink Shan-Shui Art: New Media Dystopian Landscapes of Yang Yongliang and Chen Shao Xiong

(2015) Zi Wang, Traditional Art and Politics: Reconstruction of the Shanghai Seal World, 1949-1976

(2014) Denisa Tomkova, Identity cards as Biopolitical art in Eastern Europe produced between 1990s-2010

(2014) Anran Tu, Shiy De-Jinn’s Late Paintings (1966-1981): Localism and the Imagination of Taiwanese Cultural Identity

(2014) Xiaoshuang Wu, Does Gender Matter? De-tagging Lin Tianmiao’s Installation from Feminist Art and Evaluating her works beyond Gender

(2014) Yuqing Gong, Witness of Biopower:  The presentation of sexuality in Cui Xiuwen’s artworks between 1997 - 2007

(2013) Lauren Ashby, The Ecology Of Place: Representation Of Personal Displacement In China’s Evolving Landscape

(2013) Lisa Shin, The Art Of Forbidden Love: Images Of Lovers Against Confucian Moral Ethics In Korea Between The Late Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

(2013) Yuan Ti, The Discontinuity Of Contemporary Taiwanese Art: An Interpretation Of Chen Chieh-Jen

(2013) Shuang Yao, Idealized Schemata: Model And Module Of Chinese Architectural Paintings In Yuan Dynasty

(2013) Han-Min Lee, Xing Jing’s Naked Women: Realism, Feminism And Beyond

(2012) Yun-Ju Chou, Timing Art: Analyzing And Comparing Hsieh Tehching And Zhang Huan

(2012) Shiyu Gao, Social Changes In Contemporary Chinese Photography

(2012) Xiaoxiao Huang, Comparison Between Wu Guanzhong And Lin Fengmian: Composition, Colour And Meaning

(2012) Chia-Jung Kuo, The Influence Of Art After The Cultural Revolution: The Analysis Of Three Dimensions

(2012) Wei-Hsiu Lin, The Western Products In China Seen Through Posters, 1841-1949

(2011) Viktorija Kasperovica, Translating China: A Role Of Private And Public Capital In A Process Of Cultural Translation A Case Study Of Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibitions In Britain

(2011) Zhuoran Zhang, Cultural Nationalism And Lu Xun’s Woodcut Movement

(2011) Sau Wai Chim, The Global Diffusion Of Art Museum And Large-Scale Perennial Exhibition, And Their Mutation In The Twenty-First-Century China: A Case Study Of Guangdong Museum Of Art And Its Triennial

(2011) Marcus Pibworth, The Aesthetics Of Dismemberment: The Use Of Violence In Chinese Experimental Art 1990 – 2000

(2011) You Wang, Chinese Export Art: Past, Present And Future