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Personal profile
Jing received her PhD of History from the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Dr Stephen McDowall and Professor Francesca Bray. Before joining XJTLU, she held her Postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Warwick, Humboldt University in Berlin and London Science Museum. Jing is interested in the history of images and material cultures, and her interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of history of empire, visuality, frontier studies, gender history, anthropology, and history of sciences. This features in her monograph Visualising Ethnicity in the Southwest Borderlands: Gender and Representation in Late Imperial and Republican China (Leiden: Brill, 2020).
Research interests
Visual and Material Culture
Gender and ethnicity
Visual representation
Miao albums, ethnographic photography
History of anthropology, ethnic minorities in the Southwest Asian borderland
Experience
University of Warwick, CCKF Postdoctoral Fellow of Global History and Culture Center, 2019-2020
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Postdoctoral Fellow of Forum Transregionale Studien (Joint Programme with Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut), 2018-2019
Science Museum, London, UK-China Rutherford Curatorial Research Fellow, 2018
Teaching
Chinese History
Introduction to Chinese Literature
West China
Awards and honours
RDF award, XJTLU, RMB 86,000. Project Project (2021-2024): Medical Objects in Motion: Collecting, Gender and Representation of Chinese Medicine in the UK
Education/Academic qualification
Ph.D. of History, University of Edinburgh, 2018
MSc. University of Edinburgh, Eighteenth Century Cultural History, 2013
B.A. University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 2012
Person Types
- Staff
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Projects
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Medical Objects in Motion: Collecting, Display and Representation of Chinese Medicine in the UK
1/09/21 → 31/08/24
Project: Internal Research Project
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Art, Anthropology and Non-Han Bodies: Pang Xunqin’s Paintings of Miao People in Guizhou Province in the 1940s
Zhu, J., 2022, In: Visual Anthropology. 35, 4-5, p. 358-389 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Visual evidence? Rethinking anthropological photography in republican China (1912–1949)
Zhu, J., 5 Sept 2022, In: History and Anthropology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Measuring non-Han bodies: Anthropometry, colonialism, and biopower in China's south-western borderland in the 1930s and 1940s
Zhu, J., 2021, In: History of the Human Sciences. 35, 3-4, p. 84-112 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
民俗的興趣與‘人類學’ 式的收藏?—倫敦科學博物館二十世紀的中國收藏與展覽 (Ethnographic interests and ‘anthropological’ style collecting: The China collection and display at London Science Museum)
Zhu, J., 2021, In: 自然科学博物馆研究(Journal of Natural Science Museum Journal). 32, 2, p. 45-54Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Visualising Ethnicity in the Southwest Borderlands: Gender and Representation in Late Imperial and Republican China
Zhu, J., 2020, Brill.Research output: Book/Report/Edited volume › Book › peer-review
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“Medical Objects in Motion: British imagination of traditional Chinese women’s diagnosis”
Jing Zhu (Speaker)
5 Dec 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Medical Objects in Motion: Women, body and representation of Chinese Medicine in the UK in late 19th and 20th century” 7th China-UK Humanities Alliance Annual Forum 中英高等教育人文聯盟峰會
Jing Zhu (Speaker)
10 Nov 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar
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對《百苗圖》製作者，觀看者以及功能的再思考” at a young scholar’s workshop of Southwest frontier and neighbouring countries 西南边疆与周边国家历史青年学人研讨会
Jing Zhu (Speaker)
4 Nov 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar
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“Representing Yi minority in modern China: Dance, painting and museumification of Costume of Yi Minority” 4th Museum and Anthropology Forum 第四届博物馆人类学研讨会
Jing Zhu (Speaker)
27 Oct 2023 → 29 Oct 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation at conference/workshop/seminar
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Representation of the Southwest Frontier: Visuality, Gender, and non-Han Bodies", East Asian Studies Center, Ohio State University
Jing Zhu (Speaker)
9 Feb 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk