Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen

Academic Career

• 2022- Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen
• 2022 Ph.D. of Pre‐promotion courses finished in East Asia Art History, Heidelberg University, Germany
• 2020 M.A. degree in Fine Arts, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
• 2018 B.A. degree in Fine Arts, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Research Interests
Zhao Yawei’s main research interests lie in the areas of Chinese art history in landscape paintings, cultural history, and the interactions between emperors and officers. After working on the missionaries' art activities in the Qing Dynasty and the case study of Cichen 詞臣 painter Qian Weicheng 錢維城 (1720-1772) during her B.A. and M.A studies, she devotes herself to the topic “The Interaction of Landscape Paintings between Qianlong 乾隆 and Cichen 詞臣”. She aims to analyze how the political interaction influenced landscape paintings from the eighteenth century to the nineteenth century. The materials of this project draw upon literature related to arts and political culture (including Shiqu baoji 石渠寶笈, gazetteers, Qinggong neiwufu zaobanchu dang'an zonghui 清宮內務府造辦處檔案總匯). By virtue of the Cichen painters which is a unique group to discourse politics working the political nexus of the Qianlong emperor, the project hopes to bridge previous research deficiencies by combining art and political perspectives.