Jing received her PhD of History from the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Dr Stephen McDowall and Professor Francesca Bray. Before joining XJTLU, she held her Postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Warwick, Humboldt University in Berlin and London Science Museum. Jing is interested in the history of images and material cultures, and her interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of history of empire, visuality, frontier studies, gender history, anthropology, and history of sciences. This features in her monograph "Visualising Ethnicity in the Southwest Borderlands: Gender and Representation in Late Imperial and Republican China" (Leiden: Brill, 2020).
Qualifications
Ph.D. of History, University of Edinburgh, 2018
MSc. University of Edinburgh, Eighteenth Century Cultural History, 2013
B.A. University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 2012
Experience
University of Warwick, CCKF Postdoctoral Fellow of Global History and Culture Center, 2019-2020
Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Postdoctoral Fellow of Forum Transregionale Studien (Joint Programme with Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut), 2018-2019
Science Museum, London, UK-China Rutherford Curatorial Research Fellow, 2018
Research interests
Visual and Material Culture
Gender and ethnicity
Visual representation
Miao albums, ethnographic photography
History of anthropology, ethnic minorities in the Southwest Asian borderland
Articles
Jing Zhu, "Art, Anthropology and Non-Han Bodies: Pang Xunqin’s Paintings of Miao People in Guizhou Province in the 1940s," Visual Anthropology, 35, 4-5(2022): 358–389.
Jing Zhu, "Visual evidence? Rethinking anthropological photography in republican China (1912–1949)," History and Anthropology, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2022.2119228)
Jing Zhu,“Measuring Non-Han Bodies: anthropometry, colonialism and biopower in China’s southwest borderland in the 1930s and 1940s,” History of theHuman Sciences, 2021 (online first).
朱敬，“民俗的興趣與‘人類學’ 式的收藏?—倫敦科學博物館二十世紀的中國收藏與展覽 (Ethnographic interests and ‘anthropological’ style collecting: The China collection and display at London Science Museum)，” 自然科学博物馆研究 (Journal of Natural Science Museum Journal), 32 2 (2021): 45-54.
Jing Zhu, “Visualising Human Differences in Late Imperial China: Body, Nakedness and Sexuality,” Ming Qing Studies, 23, 1 (2019): 169-198.
Jing Zhu, “Empire and Visual Pleasure: Reinterpreting the Miao Albums of Yunnan and Guizhou,” British Journal of Chinese Studies, 8, 2 (2018): 29-62.
Books, monographs, compilations and manuals
Jing Zhu, Visualising Ethnicity in the Southwest Borderlands: Gender and Representation in Late Imperial and Republican China (Leiden: Brill, 2020)
Conference presentations
"Inventing ‘frontier dance’ in Republican China: the contribution of Dai Ai’lian and global Primitivism ," BACS, , 6th September, 2021.
“Bodies of Non-Han: Anthropology, Visuality and Biopower in Southwest Borderland during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945),” Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, 06th Feb 2020.
“Imagining human diversity of the world: anthropology, imperial legacies and racial sciences in Republican China,” 2019 China-UK Humanities Alliance Annual Forum: Re-imagining the Global: Cross-cultural Communities/Other Cosmopolitans, Beijing University, 13/14th, Dec 2019.
"Collecting, Displaying and Interpreting Chinese Objects of Science, Technology and Medicine in UK in the 19th and 20th Century,” School of History of Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2nd Sep 2019.
“Global Empires and Local Trajectories: Image, Gender and Representation in Southwest Borderland in Late Imperial China,” UK-China Humanities Alliance: Global History and Chinese History, 16/17 Sep 2019, University of Warwick/University of Oxford.
“Bodies of Non-Han: Anthropology, Visuality and Population Management in Southwest China in the 1930s and 1940s,” School of Art History, Humboldt University, Berlin,19th June 2019.
“Visualising Human Differences in Late Imperial China: Body, Nakedness and Sexuality,” at a workshop of Re-Envisioning Gender in China, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, February 2019.
“Photographing Bodies of Non-Han in the South-West of China in the 1930s and 1940s: Anthropometry, Museum Collections and Gender,” Science Museum, London, 4th Jun 2018/ Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, Germany, Oct 2018/American Historical Association (AHA), Chicago, US, Jan 2019.
“China Collections at Science Museum London,” Science Museum, London, UK, 17th July 2018.
Co-convener of the International Workshop: “Chinese Science, Technology and Medicine: Cultures, Histories and Global Connections,” Science Museum, London, 3rd/4th Jun 2018.
“What should the non-Han wear? The representation of 'casual' and 'festival' costumes in Miao albums and modern photography,” in the annual conference of European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), St. Petersburg, Russia, Aug 2016.
"Conceptualising and visualising the body of non-Han: technology of body measuring and observation in the southwest of China in the first half of twentieth century," (SHOT), National University of Singapore, Singapore, Jun 2016
“Imperial Images? Rethinking Miao album of Yunnan and Guizhou,” 3rd Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 2016.
"Zhengqi haoyi: viewing and collecting the Miao albums for fun," in the annual conference of British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS), University of Leeds, UK, Sep 2015.
"Masculinity or femininity? the gendered representation of the ethnic minorities in southwest of China from mid-18th to mid-20th century" in the workshop of 6th Women and Gender Network in Chinese Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK, Sep 2015.
"A visual Grammar of the body of ethnic minorities: the case of Yunnan Album in late imperial China," British Association for Chinese Studies, PG Networking, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, Jul 2015
Courses taught
Chinese History
Introduction to Chinese Literature
West China
Professional memberships
Member, British Association of Chinese Studies (BACS)
Awards and honours
RDF award, XJTLU, RMB 86,000. Project Project (2021-2024): Medical Objects in Motion: Collecting, Gender and Representation of Chinese Medicine in the UK
HS363(Humanities & Social Sciences Building) Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District Suzhou Industrial Park Suzhou P.R.China 215123
