Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

Dandan Xu
Doctoral Student in History of Art and Architecture
Research Interests
Visual and Material Culture of Late Imperial China; Painting, Prints, and Garden Culture in 17th-Century China
Biography
Dandan Xu studies the visual and material culture of Late Imperial China in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. She received her M.A. in East Asian Art at the University of Kansas in May 2020, where she began her art history journey. Before embarking on her journey of art history, she earned her doctoral degree in Chinese literature at Fudan University in China in 2017