Dissertation Title: Drawing Connections: Models and Design Transfer From the Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes and Beyond

Advisor: Bader, Graham

Dan Shan received a B.A. in Archaeology from Capital Normal University in Beijing, and completed a master’s degree from Fudan University in Shanghai. She was an exchange student at the National Taiwan University. Dan is particularly interested about Chinese paintings from Song and Yuan periods, Buddhist visual culture, and material culture of the ancient Silk Road. Her dissertation explores the nature of drawing, artistic practice as well as art collecting in medieval China and Japan. Most recently, Dan has been a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo.