Dr. Lianming Wang
University Education
Professional Experience
Scholarships and Grants
Professional Career
University Education
September 2009 – November 2014
Heidelberg University, Institute of East Asian Art History, Doctoral Studies in East Asian Art History
Doctoral Thesis: Propaganda fidei: The Nantang-Church and the Jesuit Sacred Spaces in Early Modern Beijing (in German);
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Lothar Ledderose, Prof. Dr. Melanie Trede, PD Dr. Claudia von Collani (Münster)
October 2006 – March 2007
Università degli Studi di Padova, term abroad, supported by a Bilateral Scholarship
April 2004 – July 2009
University of Würzburg, Magister Artium (M.A.) in Art History, Art Education, Classical Archaeology and Romance Studies (Italian Language and Literature); Master Thesis: The Cross-Chapel in Eibelstadt, 1657-1662: An Art-historical Research on Architecture and Decoration; Advisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Kummer
September 2001 – June 2002
Donghua University (formerly: China Textile University), Shanghai, PR China, B.A.-Studies in Art Design
Professional Experience
From September 2014
Heidelberg University, Institute of East Asian Art History, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art History
April 2013 – August 2014
Heidelberg University, Institute of East Asian Art History, Research Assistant to the Chair of Chinese Art History
October 2009 – March 2011
University of Würzburg, Institute of East Asian Cultural Studies – Project “Global System and Intercultural Competence”, Teaching Fellow (Wiss. Mitarbeiter); broke off by accepting a doctoral fellowship
August 2009 – March 2010
University of Würzburg, Institute of East Asian Cultural Studies – Chair of Far Eastern Philology, Lecturer/ Tutor/ Graduate Assistant
May 2008 – June 2009
University of Würzburg, Institute of East Asian Cultural Studies – Project “Global System and Intercultural Competence”, Student Assistant
Scholarships
September 1 – 21, 2017
DAAD Visiting Fellowship (Eastern Program), Department of Oriental and African Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, Russian Federation.
2016 – 2017
Participating scholar, project “Shifting Paradigms in Art-Historical Training: Connecting Heidelberg University with China’s Leading Museums, Excellence Initiative II, Heidelberg University.
2016
Research Grant, Eugen Arnold Foundation, awarded by the Institute of European Art History, Heidelberg University
June 22 – 24, 2015
Travel Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (for attending the AAS-in-Asia “Asia in Motion: Ideas, Institutions, and Identity,” Academia Sinica, Taipei)
2015
Project Grant “Knowledge, Organization and Cosmopolitanism: Giuseppe Castiglione and the Sino-European Visual Culture at Manchu Court, 1690-1770,” Excellence Initiative II “Mobility in International Research Collaborations,” Heidelberg University (April – December; together with Prof. Dr. Sarah E. Fraser)
March 2014
Heinz-Götze Scholarship for Chinese Art History for a research stay at Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as for attending the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in Philadelphia
July 2013
Heinz-Götze Scholarship for Chinese Art History for a fieldwork on Catholic churches Beijing; for attending the International Conference “Comparing China and the West“ at Beijing University and „Portugal and Europe in Global Perspective, 1450-1900” in Lisbon
March 2 – 29
Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco, EDS Travel Grant Visiting Fellowship, Research Stay in the Rouleau-Archive
January 2011 – December 2012
Geschwister-Supp Stiftung (Philosophical Faculty, Heidelberg University), Doctoral Fellowship
October 2012
International Balzan Foundation (Prof. Dr. Lothar Ledderose‘s Fund), Travel Grant for attending the 3rd International Graduate Symposium on Art History “The Logic of Image and Its Interpretations”, Beijing University
September – October 2010
Excellence Initiative, Graduate Academy, Heidelberg University, Travel Grant for conducting fieldwork in Macao, Hangzhou and Beijing
August 2010
Heritage Society Eibelstadt e.V., Publication Grant
October 2008 – March 2009
Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, Graduation Stipend
October 2006 – March 2007
Università degli Studi di Padova, Bilateral Scholarship