Alina Scotti studies the visual culture and media of modern China. She earned an MSt in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford where she specialized in Republican-era magazines and print culture, and she holds a BA from the University of Chicago, where she double majored in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Art History. Her research interests include Republican-era visual culture and literature, cross-media and particularly image-text analysis in print media, and themes of escapism and exile in 20th-century Chinese art.