PhD Candidate Yifan Li Presents at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
On March 27, PhD Candidate Yifan Li presented a paper entitled “The New Architectural Wonder: Reproducing the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge in Mao-era China” for the panel "Architectural Simulacra: Translation in Space, Time, and Medium" at this year's Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Yifan's trip was supported by an Edward J. Ray Travel Award for Scholarship and Service, an Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant, and a History of Art Graduate Symposium Award. At the conference, Yifan was excited to see two graduate alumni of the department: Yanfei Zhu (PhD 2013) and Effie Yin (PhD 2019). While in Hawaii, Yifan also visited the Honolulu Museum of Art and explored their prominent collection of East Asian art as well as the Hawai‘i Triennial 2022.