Xinyu Liang

Xinyu Liang

Dunhuang Project Coordinator and Translator of Chinese

Xinyu Liang (Ph.D., Rice University) is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her scholarship explores visual and material transculturation along the Silk Road during and after the Mongol Empire, in particular Arab and Persianate book arts, Chinese mosque architecture, and the circulation of portable arts. Her current book project, entitled Framing Time and Space in Transcultural Dialogue: The Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh and the “Pictorial Turn” in Ilkhanid Mongol Book Art, examines the first extensively illustrated manuscript of world history produced in Iran during the early fourteenth century. By bringing methodologies from intellectual history into dialogue with Islamic visual culture, the project situates Ilkhanid image-making within the transcultural context of the Mongol Empire and deepens our understanding of artistic and conceptual exchange in premodern Eurasia.