Yi-Chieh Shih is an affiliated postdoctoral researcher in the research programme ‘Colonial and Global History 1200 to present’ at Institute for History in Leiden University since April 2022.

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Fields of interest

Her primary researches are 17th-18th-century Chinese export objects and la Chinoiserie taste in Europe against the backdrop of East India Companies.

Research

• 17th-18th-century East India Companies: Mobility, Collaborations and Exchanges
• Chinese Export Artefacts and La Chinoiserie in Europe
• 16th-17th-century Dutch and Flemish Art in the Low Countries and Italy

Grants and awards

• PhD degree in December 2021 with mention très honorable at the University of Geneva
• 2017 – 2018 Dissertation Fellowships for ROC Taiwan Students Abroad (European Region), The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taiwan
• 2015 Full Travel Grant for the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) 2015 at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO), Switzerland
• 2014 Full Travel Grant for L’École de Printemps 2014 at University of Tokyo, Japan, Department of Art History, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• 2012 – 2014 Government Scholarships for Study Abroad (GSSA), Ministry of Education, Taiwan

Curriculum Vitae

She has previously worked in museums in charge of international exchange for visual exhibitions and performing art, especially those between Taiwan, Asia and Europe. She has taught fine art, global culture and civilisation, and influences of early East India Companies’ trade in Asia in universities. She is also a certificated Chinese language teacher for non-Chinese speakers.

Key publications

PhD Dissertation

1. Modelling handsome faces. Chitqua: A Chinese Artist & Chinese Art in Eighteenth Century London. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:158664

Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals

1. ‘Oost-Indische trofeeën. Vier portretbeelden van ongebakken klei in de collectie van het Zeeuws Museum’ (Trophies from the East Indies. Five Unfired Portrait Clay Figures in the Collection of the Zeeuws Museum), Zeeland Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen, Volume 29, Issue 1, 2020, pp. 1-10. https://www.edit.nl/kzgw/zeeland/Zeeland2020-1_gratis-artikel.pdf, from: https://kzgw.nl/publicaties/tijdschrift-zeeland/laatste-editie/
2. ‘Fanning a Tender Breeze. Chinese and European Folding Fans in the KUBEN Collection’, Aust-Agder-Arv Årbok, 2018, pp. 108-127. https://www.kubenarendal.no/media/487734/2008_108_127_YS_Fanning_a_tender_breeze.pdf, from: https://www.kubenarendal.no/publikasjoner/aust-agder-arv/aust-agder-arv-2018/