About
Meichen Liu is a Ph.D. student in East Asian art history, with a research focus on material culture of late imperial China. She engages with the issues of cross-cultural studies, art and ecology, materiality, and the agency of things. Meichen received her BA from Franklin and Marshall College (2020) and her MA from the University of Chicago (2022) with a thesis on automaton clocks in Qianlong’s court.