Contact
Email: zian.chen@uzh.ch
Research Interests
Transcultural art history with a focus on early modern Sino-European cultural encounters and Jesuit visual culture, text-image relationships, natural history imagery, visual epistemology
Current Research
The Fictionality of Images in Late Ming to Early Qing Illustrated Natural History Books and Their Global Context (Working Title)
Presentations
24/07/2026. “Illustrations of Marine Creatures in Haicuo Tu 海错图(‘Pictures of the Various Marine Creatures’) and the Global Context”, EACS 2026, Venice.
20/06/2025. “Cultural Accommodation Strategy of Jesuit Global Evangelization with the Case Study of Candida Xu's Portrait”, 13th Forum for East Asian Art History in German-speaking Countries, Berlin.