Julia F. Andrews is Academy Professor and Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Ohio State University. Her first book, Painters and Politics in the Peoples Republic of China, 1949 –1976, received the 1996 Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) for modern China. Since then, she has won numerous awards for her scholarship. Her latest publication is the co-edited volume Art and Modernism in Socialist China: Unexplored International Encounters, 1949-1979, with Shuyu Kong and Shengtian Zheng (Routledge, 2024) and served as the 15th Heinz Goetze Professor at the University of Heidelberg in 2024. She was trained at Berkeley and began her career at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.