Zhang Jie
Jie 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.
Education
MA, Master of Arts, East Asian Studies, University of Virginia
B.Soc.Sci., Geography, National University of Singapore
Expertise Areas
Research
Research Interests
- Buddhist Art, Christian-Buddhist encounter, Sino-European art exchange
- 17th-19th centuries
- Print and painting
- Museum and curatorial practices
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
Zhang, Jie. “Dying the Chinese Catholic Way: An Interreligious Study of Catholic and Buddhist Woodblock Printed Illustrations in Nineteenth-Century China.” International Journal of Asian Christianity 8, no. 2 (2025): 157–93. https://doi.org/10.1163/25424246-08020010.
Zhang, Jie. “Buddhist Music as a Contested Site: The Transmission of Teochew Buddhist Music between China and Singapore.” Yale Journal of Music & Religion 9, no. 1 (2023): 66-88. https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231X.1236.
Online exhibitions
Zhang, Jie, Jennifer Levin, and Meg Kennedy. “Archaeological Investigations At UVA.” ArcGIS StoryMaps, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, 2022. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7aabce8c0f6048b48712cb2add20b9d9.
Chavez, Natalie, Chris MacDonnell, Matthew Schneider, and Jie Zhang. “Pine Grove: A Rosenwald Project, Documentation of an Endangered Historic Black School,” Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library, 2021. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/07f5f68449a046eb8a6d50deb1fee4c2.
Zhang, Jie. “Empowering the Preservation of Asian Art and Architecture with 3D Cultural Heritage Informatics,” Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library. 2021. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/38a084a6de774128b5d6fc91389c842c.