Joan Nieuhof’s Drawing of a Chinese Temple in the Rijksmuseum

Author Biography

• Jing Sun

  Jing Sun is assistant professor at the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University. She received
  her doctoral degree at Leiden University in 2013, for her research on Johan Nieuhof’s images of
  China. Her recent research focuses on artistic interaction between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Recent publications include The Illusion of Verisimilitude:
  Johan Nieuhof ’s Images of China, Leiden 2013; ‘Exotic Imitation and Local Cultivation: A Study on the Art Form of Dutch Delftware between 1640 and 1720’, The Transformation of Vernacular
  Expression in Early Modern Arts 19 (2001), pp. 373-98.