Dahi Jung, M.A.
- Candoc Stipendiatin / Recipient of the Candoc Doctoral Fellowship
Main Research Interests
Artistic and cultural exchange between China and Europe; Export art; material and visual culture of late Qing China; presentation and reception of East Asian art in Europe; history and historiography of collecting East Asian art in Europe
Dissertation (PhD, ongoing)
Working Title: Fragile Mediations: Pith Paper across the Qing court, Canton, and British Empire.
This PhD project is financed by the UZH Candoc grant (Time span: 2024 – 2026) and Doc.Mobility fellowship (October 2026–March 2027).
Presentations
- From Botanical Specimen to Export Art: The Shifting Classification of Chinese Pith Paper in Western Collections. Workshop Entangled Images: Early 20th-Century Chinese Popular Culture and Western Collections, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg June 11–12, 2026.
- Beyond Canton, Beyond China: Pith Paper Across Cultures. 4th Conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA), Lisbon September 8–13, 2025.
- The Legacy of Mary Delany (1700–1788) and Its Curious Connection to China. Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama March 1–2, 2024.
- Art Made between Cultures: Chinese Export Art on Pith Paper. 10th Forum of East Asian Art History in German-speaking Countries, University of Zurich June 17–18, 2022.
Lehre (2022–2024)
Courses in 2024
- Spring 2024: Introduction to Chinese Art (Exercise with regional focus)
Courses in 2023
- Autumn 2023: Craft in East Asian Visual Culture (Exercise)
- Autumn 2023: Excursion to Sweden (Excursion, co-teaching with Isabelle Leemann, M.A.)
- Spring 2023: Art and Nation: Forms of Contact and Exchange in East Asian Visual Culture, 1850–1945 (BA Seminar: Word and Image in East Asian Art History, co-teaching with Anna Herren, M.A.)
- Spring 2023: Collecting East Asia in Europe (Exercise, co-teaching with Anna Herren, M.A.)
Courses in 2022
- Autumn 2022: Grundlagenwissen der Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens (Introduction, co-teaching with Isabelle Leemann, M.A.)
- Autumn 2022: Introduction to Japanese Art History (Exercise with regional focus)