Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany
Qian Zhan is a postdoctoral scholar in the Working Group “Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere, 14–20 Centuries” in Department AAK. She received her PhD in Art History from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2025. Her dissertation, “Tracing the Orchid: A Study of Orchid Painting in Song and Yuan China (960–1368), with a Special Focus on Zheng Sixiao’s Ink Orchid,” traces the evolution of orchids as a central theme in Chinese painting during the Song and Yuan dynasties, exploring both their artistic transformations and cultural significance. She is currently revising the dissertation into a monograph. From 2024 to 2025, she was a visiting researcher at National Taiwan University. At the MPIWG, her project “Visual Knowledge Reclassified: Painting Manuals in Ming–Qing Household Encyclopedias” examines how visual knowledge was classified, adapted, and circulated for everyday use.
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Friday, March 13, 2026
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2: Emotional Tensions and Visual Responses: Rethinking Zhao Mengfu’s Service to the Yuan
Friday, March 13, 2026
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