Yueling Ji Awarded 2022 Liu Cong Memorial Prize
August 15, 2022
Yueling Ji was recently awarded the Center’s Liu Cong Memorial Prize for the Best Essay on East Asian Art and Visual Culture 2021-22 for her paper “Queering the Sino-Soviet Alliance Posters.” Her essay analyzes Chinese and Soviet posters made between 1949 and 1962, providing new hypotheses about their origins and style and situating the works in the context of their time while also reflecting on their meaning to audiences in the present day. As such, it makes a significant contribution to research.
Yueling Ji is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Univeristy of Chicago. Her dissertation examines the history and methodology of Chinese literary criticism of the Cold War era. In the 2022-2023 academic year, she will be in residence at the Franke Institute for the Humanities as a Dissertation Completion Residential Fellow.
The Liu Cong Memorial Prize recognizes excellent scholarship in East Asian art and visual culture by graduate students at the University of Chicago and encourages the developing of writing skills for publishable essays. The Center for the Art of East Asia established the prize in 2010-11 in memory of former graduate student and Ph.D. candidate in the Art History Department, Liu Cong (1979-2008), a promising young scholar much admired for her talent and vitality of mind and spirit who was struck down by brain cancer.
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Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) profile of Yueling Ji
