Yi Zhang holds a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Aesthetics from Peking University. She received her second M.A. from Regional Studies—East Asia at Harvard University. Grounded in the context of late imperial China, she intends to explore the interconnection and evolution of visual culture and print media. She hopes to engage with questions of information mapping, techniques of remediation, the interplay between image, text, and object, and the construction of collective memory.