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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
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Ruijin-XJTLU Intelligent Medicine Institute 2026 Medical-Engineering Interdisciplinary Research Grants
Zhu, J. (PI)
Project: Collaborative Research Project
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Medical Objects in Motion: Collecting, Display and Representation of Chinese Medicine in the UK
Zhu, J. (PI)
1/09/21 → 1/09/26
Project: Internal Research Project
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Localizing Global Culture in China and beyond: Knowledge, Visual and Material Culture in Motion
Zhu, J. (Editor), 2026, (Submitted) Springer.Research output: Book/Report/Edited volume › Book › peer-review
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The Choreography of Frontier Dance: Local Materials, Ballroom Dance and the Ethnographic Fantasy of the Frontier
Zhu, J., 25 Jun 2026, In: Dance Research Journal. 57, 2, p. 122-148 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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从经验到文本: 重构早期现代世界的实践性知识
Translated title of the contribution :From Lived Experience to the Written World: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World by Pamela Smith (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2022) Research output: Book/Report/Edited volume › Book › peer-review
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边疆与视觉娱乐：对“苗图”的重新思考和诠释
Zhu, J., 2024, In: 艺术与民俗. 6, 4, p. 37-46Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Measuring non-Han bodies: Anthropometry and Biopower in China's Southwestern Borderland in the 1930s and 1940s
Zhu, J., 2023, 重塑人文学：中英人文对话. 王淑英, 杨华 & 李莉 (eds.). 商务印书馆, p. 442-481Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Activities
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Embodied knowledge and Experience: Reproducing early moder cosmetics in Europe and China
Zhu, J. (Organiser)
31 Aug 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising an event e.g. a conference, workshop, …
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Five Elements Acupuncture and free clinic in Campus
Zhu, J. (Organiser)
31 Aug 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising an event e.g. a conference, workshop, …
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Suzhou Studio Portraits in 1930s and 1940s
Zhu, J. (Organiser)
30 Aug 2026 → 3 Sept 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising an event e.g. a conference, workshop, …
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Nvshu exhibition
Zhu, J. (Organiser)
30 Aug 2026 → 3 Sept 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising an event e.g. a conference, workshop, …
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Suzhou Arts and Culture Festival
Scott, P. (Organiser), Roslan, S. B. (Organiser), Miao, H. (Organiser), Zhu, J. (Organiser), Huang, L. (Organiser), Lu, X. (Organiser), Zhang, L. (Organiser), Gu, Y. (Organiser), Yuan, L. (Organiser), Chen, X. (Organiser), Chen, G.C.-F. (Organiser) & Wu, Y. (Organiser)
30 Aug 2026 → 3 Sept 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising an event e.g. a conference, workshop, …