Jie Zhang

hang is a Ph.D. student in the Design, Environment and the Arts (History, Theory, and Criticism) program at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University. She holds an MA degree in East Asian Studies from the University of Virginia, and a B. Soc. Sci degree in Geography from the National University of Singapore. She specializes in Art History and Religious Studies of the late imperial period in China. Her research focuses on Sino-European interactions and Buddhist-Catholic exchanges in paintings and printed illustrations. She was a full-time teaching assistant for Asian Studies at the College of Humanities and Sciences at the National University of Singapore.