Jie Zhang

Graduate Teaching Assistant,

School of Art

[email protected]

Mail code: 1505

Campus: Tempe
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Student Information

Graduate Student
Design, Environment and the Arts (History, Theory, and Criticism)
Herberger Institute

Long Bio

ZHANG Jie is a Ph.D. student specializing in Art History and Religious Studies of the late imperial period in China. Her research focuses on Sino-European interactions and Buddhist-Catholic encounters in paintings and printed illustrations. She holds an MA degree in East Asian Studies from the University of Virginia, and a B. Soc. Sci degree in Geography from the National University of Singapore. Previously, she has held a teaching position for Asian Studies at the College of Humanities and Sciences (2023) and worked as a professional fundraiser (2017-2021), both at the National University of Singapore.

Education

Bachelor of Social Sciences, Geography, National University of Singapore
Master of Arts, East Asian Studies, University of Virginia, United States

Research Website URL

https://asu.academia.edu/JieZhang

Research Interests

Buddhist Art, Christian-Buddhist encounter, Sino-European art exchange
17th-19th centuries
Print and painting
Museum and curatorial practices

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Zhang, Jie. “Dying the Chinese Catholic Way: An Interreligious Study of Catholic and Buddhist Woodblock Printed Illustrations in Nineteenth-Century China.” International Journal of Asian Christianity 8, no. 2 (2025): 157–93. https://doi.org/10.1163/25424246-08020010.

Zhang, Jie. “Buddhist Music as a Contested Site: The Transmission of Teochew Buddhist Music between China and Singapore.” Yale Journal of Music & Religion 9, no. 1 (2023): 66-88. https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231X.1236.

Online exhibitions

With Nandita Punj, Claudia Brown, Huixian Dong, Colin Pearson, “Collecting Devotion: From Temple to Jina”, Arizona State University, 2025. https://www.artsteps.com/view/68436daf35f086902cc12822.

With Jennifer Levin, and Meg Kennedy. “Archaeological Investigations At UVA.” ArcGIS StoryMaps, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, 2022. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7aabce8c0f6048b48712cb2add20b9d9.

With Chavez, Natalie, Chris MacDonnell, Matthew Schneider. “Pine Grove: A Rosenwald Project, Documentation of an Endangered Historic Black School,” Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library, 2021. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/07f5f68449a046eb8a6d50deb1fee4c2.

Zhang, Jie. “Empowering the Preservation of Asian Art and Architecture with 3D Cultural Heritage Informatics,” Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library. 2021. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/38a084a6de774128b5d6fc91389c842c.

Academic translation

Mowry, Robert 毛瑞. “A Ming Painting of The Jade Emperor 明玉皇太帝圖.” Translated by Zhang, Jie 張潔. Artist Magazine · Special Issue Commemorating Dr. Chu-tsing Li 藝術家·紀念李鑄晉教授專輯 592 (2024). https://www.artist-magazine.com/product_d.php?lang=tw&tb=3&id=19465&tab=5615.

Digital dataset

Zhang, Jie. “Hall of Ksitigarbha (Dizang Dian 地藏殿) of Buseoksa Temple 浮石寺.” Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library, 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87088.

Zhang, Jie. “CRTA 觀世音菩薩感應靈課 - DCCB0288” (The Chinese Religious Text Authority 宗教書籍規範索引, 2023).

Anderl, Christoph, Yalin Du, Clara Ma, Sijia Li, and Jie Zhang. “Thousand-Armed Guanyin (Qianshou Guanyin 千手觀音), Niche 21, Yuanjue Dong 圓覺洞.” Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library, 2023. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0428577.

Anderl, Christoph, Yalin Du, Clara Ma, Sijia Li, and Jie Zhang. “Sakyamuni Buddha (Shijiamounifo 釋迦牟尼佛), Niche 10, Yuanjue Dong 圓覺洞.” Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library, 2023. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0428567.

Rourk, Will; Chavez, Natalie; MacDonnell, Chris; Schneider, Matthew; Zhang, Jie, 2022, “Pine Grove Rosenwald School 3D Data”, https://doi.org/10.18130/V3/OCRSJY, University of Virginia Dataverse, V2.

Report

Zhang, Jie. “The Journey of the Deceased: Vietnamese Religion and Mortuary Robe Talismans in Contemporary Vietnam – A Workshop Report.” Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies news blog (2022). https://cjbuddhist.wordpress.com/2022/01/04/blog-the-journey-of-the-deceased-zhang/.

GitHub

Citation Style Language (csl) file for Zotero Huntington Library Grant Object List

Research Activity

Conference Presentations

“Chinese Buddhist Art in the Ten Thousand Chinese Things Exhibition (1842), London”, on the panel “Encountering Buddha in Museums: Modern Expressions of an Ancient Tradition”, American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Nov 2025, Boston, MA, United States.

“Chinese Buddhist Objects in the ‘Ten Thousand Chinese Things’ Exhibition (1842), London” in Chinese Export Art and the History of Science and Technology “中国外销艺术与科技史” 国际学术研讨会, Zhejiang University School of Art and Archaeology 浙江大学艺术与考古学院, Silk Art and Silk Roads Research Centre 丝绸艺术与丝绸之路研究中心, June 2025, Hangzhou, China. (withdrawn, paper included in conference proceedings)

“Ephemeral Craft and Sacred Space: The Transnational Trade of Teochew Charitable Hall Textiles since the 1930s”, Panel co-organizer (with Dr. Eben Yonnetti, UVA), “Materia Sacra across Borders: Trans-Regional Material Flows in Contemporary Asian Religions”, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Mar 2025, Columbus, Ohio, United States.

“Memorializing the Death of St. Francis Xavier in a Chinese Woodblock Print, 19th century” (Youtube), The Pan Asian Heritage of St Francis Xavier, Goa University, the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, and Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics, Dec 2024, Goa, India.

“Dying the Chinese Catholic way: an interreligious study of the Catholic and Buddhist woodblock illustrations in 19th century China”, Asian Catholic Materialities, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Aug 2023, Singapore.

“Women, Children, and the Inner Chamber in the Life of the Buddha: Chinese Buddhist Woodblock Illustrations in Late Imperial China”, Monastic & Literati: Cultural Ideas and Lifestyle of Chinese Buddhism, Institute for Ethics and Religious Studies (IERS) of Tsinghua University & National University of Singapore, at Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery, Aug 2023, Singapore.

“Women, Children, and the Inner Chamber in the Life of the Buddha: Chinese Buddhist Woodblock Illustrations in Late Imperial China”, Market, Merit, and Women in East Asian Buddhism, Ewha Womans University, May 2023, Seoul, Korea.

“The Efficacious Divination Book of Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara” Outliers and Oddities: Identifying, Contextualizing and Questioning Religious Texts’ Identity, Chinese Religious Text Authority, École pratique des hautes études, Jan 2023, Paris, France.

“Literature and Music in Teochew Opera” The Severing Sword - Teochew Opera Symposium, Institute of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sun Yat-sen University, Nov 2019, Guangdong, China.

“The Singapore Biographical Database (SBDB) and the Qing Dynasty Tombs of Bukit Brown Project”, Temples, Trust and Trade: Chinese Temple Networks in Southeast Asia, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Nov 2017, Singapore.

Honors / Awards

Travel grant, for presentation at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, School of Art, ASU, 2025.
Student Enrichment Grant, for presentation at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, ASU, 2025.
Travel grant, for the Yoshida Chizuko Symposium, Portland Art Museum, 2025.
Professional Membership Award for American Library Association, School of Art, ASU, 2025.
Professional Membership Award for American Academy of Religion, School of Art, ASU, 2025.
Student Enrichment Grant, for research at the Denver Art Museum, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, ASU, 2025.
Career Development Travel Award, for research at the Denver Art Museum, Graduate Student Government, ASU, 2025.
Graduate Research Support Program grant, for research at the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College, Graduate Student Government, ASU, 2024.
Student Enrichment Grant, for presentation at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, ASU, 2024.
Marilyn A. Papp Graduate Scholarship, The Papp Family Foundation, 2024.
Stanford East Asian Library Travel Grant, Stanford University, 2024.
Travel grant for study trip to the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, ASU, 2024.
Travel grant for Chinese Objects Study Workshop, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2024.
Graduate Teaching Assistantship (tuition fee coverage, stipend, health insurance, ASU, 2024-present.
Travel grant for East Asian Buddhism workshop, Princeton University, 2022.
Geiss-Hsu Foundation Scholarship, Rare Book School, Virginia, 2022.
Teaching Assistantship (tuition fee coverage, living allowance, health insurance), University of Virginia, 2022.
Wan Boo Sow Prize, top student in the graduating cohort with a minor in Translation, NUS, 2017.
Wan Boo Sow Prize, best performing student in the course “Translation and Interpretation”, NUS, 2016.
Dean’s Honor List, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 2015.
NUS Awards for Study Abroad Exchange Scholarship, for exchange at the University of Texas at Austin, National University of Singapore (NUS), 2015.
NUS Awards for Study Abroad Enhancement Scholarship, for summer school in Beijing, China, NUS, 2014.
Dean’s List (top 5% of the cohort), NUS, 2014.
Wan Boo Sow Prize, best performing student in the course “Basic Translation”, NUS, 2014.
Post-secondary School Scholarship (tuition fees, medical insurance, housing, air tickets, living allowance), Singapore Ministry of Education, 2009-12.

Professional Associations

American Library Association, Rare Book and Manuscript Section
Association of Asian Studies
American Academy of Religion
Association of Academic Museums and Galleries

Work History

Registrar, Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Jiangsu, China 佛光祖庭大觉寺·佛光缘美术馆·大觉寺分馆, May 2023 – July 2023
Curatorial intern, University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, Charlottesville, VA, United States, May 2022– Jul 2022
3D Cultural Heritage Informatics Intern, University of Virginia Library, Scholars’ Lab, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Aug 2021– Dec 2021
Team lead (fundraising and grant management), Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions, National University of Singapore, April 2020 – July 2021
Executive (Provost's Office Support & Faculty Engagement), Development Office, National University of Singapore, Aug 2017 – Mar 2020

Service

Volunteer, Arizona Sustainability Alliance, a volunteer non-partisan group committed to protecting Arizona environment and promoting sustainable living through action and advocacy, 2025.
Volunteer, Pitchfork Pantry – a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting students impacted by food insecurity. 26% of ASU students do not have enough food. Food insecure students are 24% more likely to drop out of school. According to Bruening et. al (2016), college women were more impacted by food insecurity compared to men by 25%, 2025.
IT support personnel, Scholarly Symposium in conjunction with “Collecting Devotion: From Temple to Jina” exhibition, ASU Art Museum, 2024.

Expertise Areas