School of Arts
Yingbai Fu
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Key information
Key information
- Department
- School of Arts
- Qualifications
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BA (The University of Manchester), MA (SOAS)
- Email address
- 665234@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Dressing up the Manchu Way: Visual Representations of Women’s Hair and Dress in China and Beyond, 1850s-1940s
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Shane McCausland & Dr Lars Laamann
Biography
Yingbai has been a doctoral researcher at SOAS in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology since 2020.
Her research interests focus on dynastic and early modern Chinese visual and material art in the broader issues of gender, ethnicity, culture, tradition, power dynamics and modernity in global contexts.
She works as a guest lecturer, Graduate Teaching Assistant, One-to-One Study Skills Tutor and Student Ambassador.
She received her MA in History of Art and Archaeology with Distinction from SOAS in 2020
Research interests
Yingbai’s PhD project: Dressing up the Manchu Way: Visual Representations of Women’s Hair and Dress in China and Beyond, 1850s-1940s, investigates ethnic tensions and distinctions through close readings of Manchu women’s coiffure and attire in historical images, including paintings, photographs, illustrations in books, newspapers and magazines.
It challenges the conventional male-dominated Sinocentric perspective and Western framework of modernity, arguing that women dressed up in the styles of the Manchus, the ethnic minority ruling class of China’s last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), thereby retaining distinct visual signifiers of not only status but also ethnicity even after the two dynastic transitions in 1644 and 1911.
This project is generously funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE).
