Commentary by Chi-ming Yang

Click on the image of Bust of a Man to hear commentary by Chi-ming Yang.

Chi-ming Yang is the author of Performing China: Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England.  Her current book project on "global chinoiserie" studies the connected histories of race and color through the lens of the China trade and the transatlantic slave trade. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.