Fan Zhang

Fan Zhang specializes in the visual and material culture of Early Medieval China (4th to 6th centuries). Her research explores the cross-cultural exchange along and beyond the Silk Road. At IAS, she will focus on her book project, which draws on newly excavated artworks from immigrants’ tombs to reveal the cosmopolitanism of Pingcheng, the capital of the Northern Wei dynasty. Her work analyzes how immigrants to Pingcheng negotiated their identities through visual rhetoric in a multiethnic society.