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Fellowship Project
Dr. Xu Jin spent four months (October 2022 – January 2023) at the National Museum of China in Beijing, China, where he conducted research on collections related to the ancient Silk Roads and study restoration and exhibition of Silk Road objects.
Biography
Dr. XU Jin is currently the Jane and Leopold Swergold Associate Professor of Chinese Art History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Chicago and previously taught at Vassar College. His research focuses on the religious and funerary arts of medieval China, with particular emphasis on stone carvings such as sarcophagi and Buddhist stelae. Drawing on stone artefacts held in museums in China and the United States, he explores issues concerning materiality, artistic techniques, the relationship between images and texts, spatial construction, and cultural identity.
Recent Development and Achievement
Dr. Xu’s first monograph, The Silk Road with Many Faces: Sogdian Immigrants in Early Medieval China (2026), is published by Oxford University Press. A Chinese translation, titled 絲路諸相：中古中國的粟特移民藝術, is also forthcoming from SDX Joint Publishing Company in Beijing.
Selected Publication(s)
