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JUNG Dahi

JUNG Dahi, M.A.

Main Research Interests

Artistic and cultural exchange between China and Europe; export art; material and visual culture of late Qing China; presentation and reception of East Asian art in Europe; history and historiography of collecting East Asian art in Europe

Current Research (PhD, ongoing)

Fragile Mediations: Pith Paper across the Qing court, Canton, and British Empire (Working Title)

Teaching

2024
Spring 2024: Introduction to Chinese Art (Exercise with regional focus)
2023
Autumn 2023: Craft in East Asian Visual Culture (Exercise)
Autumn 2023: Excursion to Sweden (Excursion, co-teaching with Isabelle Leemann, M.A.)
Spring 2023: Art and Nation: Forms of Contact and Exchange in East Asian Visual Culture, 1850–1945 (BA Seminar: Word and Image in East Asian Art History, co-teaching with Anna Herren, M.A.)
Spring 2023: Collecting East Asia in Europe (Exercise, co-teaching with Anna Herren, M.A.) 
2022
Autumn 2022: Grundlagenwissen der Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens (Introduction, co-teaching with Isabelle Leemann, M.A.)
Autumn 2022: Introduction to Japanese Art History (Exercise with regional focus)
 

Publications

Jung, Dahi. Anonymous Chinese artist, [Export Album from China with Butterflies and Other Insects]. In Lines from East Asia: Japanese and Chinese Art on Paper. Edited by Susanne Pollack and Hans B. Thomsen. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2022, 161-171.

Presentations

  • From Botanical Specimen to Export Art: The Shifting Classification of Chinese Pith Paper in Western Collections. Workshop Entangled Images: Early 20th-Century Chinese Popular Culture and Western Collections, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg. June 11–12, 2026.
  • Beyond Canton, Beyond China: Pith Paper Across Cultures. 4th Conference of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA), Lisbon. September 8–13, 2025.  
  • The Legacy of Mary Delany (1700–1788) and Its Curious Connection to China. Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama. March 1–2, 2024. 
  • Art Made between Cultures: Chinese Export Art on Pith Paper. 10th Forum of East Asian Art History in German-speaking Countries, University of Zurich. June 17–18, 2022.  

Fellowships, Grants

Apr 2027 Residential Fellowship, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, U.S.

October 2026—March 2027 UZH Doc.Mobility

May 2026 Short-term fellow, The Huntington Library, San Marino CA, U.S.

August 2024–July 2026 UZH Candoc grant

Awards

VKKS Förderpreis 2026

"Tactile Knowledge: Crafting Nature with Pith Paper in Nineteenth-Century Women's Albums in Britain"