Forsyth Visiting Graduate Student
About
Jing Wang is a second-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Her dissertation, "Censorship and Social Algorithms in Chinese Calligraphy at War (1937-1945)" investigates how calligraphy interacted with politics, religion, society, and the global context in wartime. She graduated from Peking University in 2008 and continued her first master’s degree in fine art (calligraphy in practice) at Beijing Normal University in 2015. In 2021, she got her second master’s degree in art history with a thesis focusing on the 1965 lanting debate and its relationship with contemporary calligraphy at the University of Edinburgh. Her essay on the art market of the Republican period was selected for the 2022 Peking University International Art History Conference. At the end of 2022, she joined the Transoceanic Art Research Consortium (TARC) as a research team fellow. Jing also has 11 years of work experience as a journalist from 2008-2019.
