Julia Qingye Wang

Julia Qingye Wang studies early modern East Asian art, architecture, and material culture. Her research interests lie with topographic sites, paintings, and material objects that show the multivalent mechanics of knowledge-making within and across the boundaries of East Asia. She is also interested in conceptualizing the emotional structures and spatial knowledge between East Asia and the Islamic lands, exploring the region’s sensorium and epistemological modes with the wider early modern world.

Julia received her BA in history of art from the University of Michigan and an MA from the Regional Studies – East Asia program at Harvard University. Before coming to Yale, she worked at the Harvard FAS Chinese Art Media (CAM) Lab, engaging with multimedia projects that range from sixth-century Buddhist architecture to modernization of ink painting in the Sinosphere, from the intertwining histories of Chinese literary classics to the transregional networks of objects and photographs in the period of the “Great Game.”