SUN Jing

  • Email : sjing@tsinghua.edu.cn
Working Experience

2019–Present, Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University

2014–2019, Lecturer & Assistant Professor , School of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University

2013–2014, Postdoctoral Researcher , School of Arts , Peking University



Education background

2005/07-2013/06, Ph.D. in Art History, Leiden University, Netherlands

2006/08-2007/01, Visiting student, University of California, Berkeley, USA

2005/01-2005/05, Visiting student, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

2002/08-2005/06, M.A. in Aesthetics, Tsinghua University, China

1998/08–2002/06, B.A. in Advertising, Peking University, China

1999/08-2002/06, B.A. in Economics (Dual Degree) Peking University, China



Visiting Appointments

2014/06-2014/07, Visiting Scholar, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University, Italy



Research interests:

Western Art History: Visual culture, iconography, and stylistic evolution of Western art from the Classical period to the early modern period.

Sino-European Artistic Exchanges (16th–20th centuries): Cross-cultural interactions between China and Europe, focusing on the transmission of artistic techniques, iconography, and visual motifs through trade, diplomacy, and missionary activities.

Global Art History: Comparative studies of artistic traditions across cultures, with a focus on the dynamics of cultural hybridity and visual translation.

Artistic Theories and Aesthetics: Theoretical exploration of Western aesthetic thought, including Neoplatonism, Renaissance humanism, Baroque classicism, Enlightenment aesthetics, and modernist theories.

Chinese Export Art and Chinoiserie: The production, dissemination, and reception of Chinese export art in Europe, and the reinterpretation of Chinese motifs in European decorative arts.


Teaching

Principles of Aesthetics

Philosophy of Art

Immortal Art

History of Western Classical and Medieval Art

History of Western Renaissance and Early Modern Art

Scientific English Writing and Expression

The Artistic and Cultural Interactions between China and the West

Special Topics in Art History


Books

·The Illusion of Verisimilitude: Johan Nieuhof’s Images of China, Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2013.

·Immortal Art(co-authored), Oriental Press, 2016.

·An Introduction to Foreign Painting Theory, Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2020.


Journal Articles

·“Curiosity and Authority: Images of Europeans at the Qing Court during the Kangxi and Yongzheng Reigns”, in Foreign Devils and Philosophers: Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1590-1800, Brill, 2020, pp.254-277.

·“China gezien door een ooggetuige: Johan Nieuhof”, Barbaren& Wijsgeren:Het beeld van China in de Gouden Eeuw, 2017, pp.25-30.

·“Joan Nieuhof’s Drawing of a Chinese Temple in the Rijksmuseum”, The Rijksmuseum Bulletin, volume 63(2015)/4, pp.400-408.

·“From Telling to Engaging: The Educational Role of the Museum in China”, Procedia-Social and Behavioural Sciences, volume 106, 2013, pp.1242-1250

·“A Primary Study on dGe vdun chos vphel’s 27 Paintings”, China Tibetology, No.1, 2013, pp.67-101.

·“Exotic Imitation and Local Cultivation-A Study on the Art Form of Dutch Delftware Between 1640 and 1720”, The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts, Brill: Leiden, 2011, pp.373-398.

· "Tea Culture in Images: The Dissemination and Integration of Tea in Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries," Tea World, Vol. 3, The Palace Museum Press, 2024, pp. 278–282.

· “Leonardo da Vinci’s Aesthetics Theory on Art and Nature”,,Journal of Tsinghua University(Philosophy and Social Sciences),2020, No.5, pp.187-193.

·“Fantasy, Horror and Farce: a study of Pieter Brugel the Elder's engravings The Seven Deadly Sins”,,Journal of Nanjing Arts Institute,2020, No.5, pp. 95-100.

·“The Transcultural Study in Art History”, , in Art Research,2020, No.6, pp.107-111.

·“Catholic Material Relics in China in the Yuan Dynasty: a study of the image of two Yangzhou Latin tombstones”, , in Art & Design Research, , 2020, No.2, pp.99-104.

·“The Artistic Interaction between China and the West in Chine de Commande Porcelain”, , in Art Observation, 2020, No.3, pp.71-72.

·“A Study on Chine de Commande Porcelain in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”, in World Art, 2020, No. 6, pp. 88-93.

·“Chinoiserie in the Blue and White Porcelain: a study of Dutch Delftware in the seventeenth century”, in Journal of Tsinghua University (Philosophy and Social Science), 2019, No.2, pp.38-46.

·“The Woven azulejo: Chinese exported silk in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries and Portuguese altar azulejo”, in Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2019, No.2, pp.111-120.

·“The Moralized Landscape: the Jewish Cemetery by Jacob van Ruisdael”, in Art Research, 2018, No.12, pp.74-79.

· “The Interaction between China and the West: a survey of Chinoiserie in Europe in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries”, in The International Perspective of Art, Beijing: Rongbaozhai Publishing house, 2016, pp.170-201.


Research Projects

·Cross-Cultural Art Theory Research – Beijing Social Science Fund, 2020–2022.

·China’s Art in 17th-Century Dutch Perception – National Social Science Fund (Youth Project), 2014–2019.

·Exotic Imitation and Localization: Dutch Delftware (1640-1720) – Research Start-Up Fund for Returned Scholars, Ministry of Education, 2015–2017.

·Sino-European Artistic Exchange via the Maritime Silk Road (17th Century) – Beijing Federation of Social Science, 2015–2016.

·Multicultural Fusion: 18th-Century Sino-European Art Exchange – Tsinghua University Independent Research Fund, 2015–2017.

·China Young Artist Overseas Research Program: 17th-18th Century European Chinoiserie – China Artists Association, 2015.