Jiaqi Kang

 

jiaqi kang

 

 

 

Jiaqi Kang

DPhil candidate, Department of History of Art

 

 

Jiaqi is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Sine Theta Magazine, an international, print-based creative arts publication made by and for the Sino diaspora.  They undertook their BA and MSt (funded by the Wadham Cliff Davies Scholarship in History) at Oxford's History of Art Department. Twitter: @jiaqikangjiaqi. 

DPhil topic

Funded by the June and Simon Li Scholarship in Chinese Art History, Jiaqi’s thesis, ‘“A pile of filth”: hygiene politics and Chinese art, 1979–2008’ explores the relationship between avant-garde art and visual culture and discourses of health, contagion and pollution in postsocialist China.