Chinese Iconography Thesaurus (CIT)

As Project Director Hongxing Zhang spearheads the editorial team of CIT and the development of the initiative. He is a senior curator of the Chinese collections at the V&A, where he has been the lead curator of several headline exhibitions such as Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900 (2013) and China Design Now (2008). Previously he taught and curated Chinese art in academic institutions including the National Museums of Scotland, University of Edinburgh, University of East Anglia. He served on the editorial board of Art History (2004-2007), and was a member of the International Consultative Committee of Digital Dunhuang, Dunhuang Academy (2016-2019). Read less

Jin Gao completed her PhD at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and she is working to discover the intellectual and social structures of the Digital Humanities communities. Her research interests lie primarily in the bibliometric and social network analysis. Currently she is also a Language Editor for the journal Open Information Science, and the Communication Editor for the journal Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. Read less

Before joining the CIT Project, Yi-hsin Lin had been working as a Research Assistant at the V&A and at the British Museum for exhibitions focused on Chinese painting, and at Academia Sinica in Taipei as Research Assistant for digital archives. After studying Chinese literature and art history in Taiwan, he obtained his PhD degree from the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS, with a thesis on Art Collecting and Gentry identity of the Pan Family in 19th century Suzhou. He is a foreign correspondent for the Dian Cang magazines (Art & Collection Group) as well as a contributor to other Chinese-language art publications. Read less

Bingjun Liu is a current PhD candidate at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Department of Information Studies. Her research focuses on the user engagement with museums' digital information services and resources in relation to both historical contexts and contemporary society. She is also a teaching assistant at the UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities, where she teaches modules on programming and internet technologies. Read less

Francesca Girelli read her BA and MA in Art History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and obtained a MA in Cultural Management from the International University of Catalunya, Barcelona. Over the past ten years she has worked for auction houses, museums, curatorial and editorial platforms. Between 2011 and 2016 she was based in China working as Curator and Researcher for Arthub Asia, a Shanghai-based independent non-profit organisation. Read less

Currently Yangruxin is a PhD candidate in Sinology at SOAS, working on the transmission and reception of Sima Qian's (ca. 145-ca. 86 BC) Shiji (The Scribes' Records) during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). She is also a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at SOAS, where she teaches courses on pre-modern Chinese language, literature, history and culture. Her research interests mainly focus on traditional Chinese philology and pre-modern history. Read less