Chenxiao (Jin) JIN

Jin (she/her) researches representations of Meiji Japan made by British artists between 1880 and 1910 under the supervision of Dr Luke Gartlan. Her project centres around Mortimer Menpes’ illustrated travel book Japan: A Record in Colour (1901) to explore the production, circulation and reception of pictures of Japanese subjects in the late Victorian and Edwardian visual culture. She is particularly interested in the intermedial and intertextual relationship between painting, photography and reprography. Focusing on cross-cultural encounters, Jin's thesis examines the entangled histories of Japan’s modernisation, British imperialism and globalising artistic practices towards the turn of the twentieth century.

Her project is funded by the School of Art History and the Janet T Anderson Trust and has been supported by the British Association for Victorian Studies, the Company of Arts, St Leonard’s Postgraduate College and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.