Yingxue Wang

Yingxue Wang is an art historian whose work explores the interconnected histories of premodern East Asian art, with a particular focus on the artistic contacts between the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University and her B.A. from Yale University. Her research interests include material culture, color, animal-human relations, and the intersection of art and resource extraction. Her dissertation, “Jewel Beetle Ornament: Art, Animals, and Power in East Asia, 5th–8th Centuries,” examines the prevalent use of iridescent beetles in elite artifacts to elucidate the entanglement of animals and animal bodies in the construction of power within political and religious contexts.