Wei Zhao

PhD Candidate

Areas of interest: Pre-modern Chinese art, especially landscape painting in the 8th to 14th centuries; East Asian material culture; History of collecting; Materiality of painting; Historiography of art.

Wei Zhao is a PhD candidate specializing in Chinese art. Her dissertation examines the canon formation of landscape painting circa 900-1050. She is also interested in the history of collecting and the materiality of painting; her research projects on the collecting activities of military governors in the tenth century and on the painting forms in the Tang (618–907) and Song (960–1279) dynasties have been presented at conferences. Wei holds M.S. degrees in both Physics and Computer Science. Her co-translation of Jessica Harrison-Hall’s Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum from English into Chinese was published in 2014.