Academic Staff
Dr SHI Liu
Research Assistant Professor
Chinese Textile History, Silk Art and the Silk Road, Sino-Western Material Culture
- HHB619
- +852 3400 8910
- grana-liu.shi@poly.edu.hk
Biography
Shi Liu is a researcher specializing in Chinese textile history, Silk art and the Silk Road, Sino-Western material culture exchange. Her primary research focuses on silk and the Silk Road during the Mongol Period, with a monograph in progress. She is also conducting research on Qing Dynasty textile and Chinese export silk.
She works for Joint Chinese Textile Centre established by The Hong Kong Palace Museum and PolyU, dedicated to the research, teaching, exhibition, and public promotion of Chinese textiles. Professionally, she contributes to the globally collaborative project A Comprehensive Collection of Chinese Silks, where she conducts studies on Chinese silk collections in European and American museums. Additionally, she leads the translation project Scientific Researches on Textile Archaeology in China, facilitating the global dissemination of scholarly work on Chinese ancient textiles.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Art History, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, 2022
- M.A. in Art History, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, 2018
- B.A. in Art History, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, 2015
Academic and Professional Experience
- Postdoc Research Fellow, School of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (2023 - 2025)
- Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Sept 2022 - Oct 2022)
- Visiting PhD Student, Department of History, European University Institute, Florence (2021-2022)
Research Interests
Research Output
Seeking Panni Tartarici: Silk and the Silk Road in the 13th -14th Centuries (in preparation)
- Documenting Silk Heritage: A Global Collaboration for‘A Comprehensive Collection of Chinese Silks’, Orientations, 2025,Vol.56. No.6, pp. 46-56. (Co-author: Zhao Feng)
- “The Logic of Composition and Assembly: The Dalmatic of Benedict XI and panni tartarici in the 14th-Century”構成與拼合的邏輯：本篤十一世法衣與14世紀“韃靼布”, in Annuals of Transcultural History of Art: Towards the Art of Art History, Vol. IV跨文化美術史年鑒4：走向藝術史的藝術, edited by Li Jun, Jinan: Shandong Fine Arts Press, 2023, pp. 355–391.
- “The Fragments and the City: A Review of The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World”碎片與城市：“青花之城: 中國瓷器和早期現代世界”書評. in Annuals of Transcultural History of Art: Towards the Art of Art History,Vol. IV跨文化美術史年鑒4：走向藝術史的藝術, edited by Li Jun, Jinan: Shandong Fine Arts Press, 2023, pp. 565–582. (Co-author: Li Fan)
- For a Fair(er) Global History, on Cromohs (Cyber review of modern historiography) Published February 3, 202. (Group work）
- “The Delusion of Guillotine: Based on the Relationship Between ‘Object’ and ‘Person’”斷頭臺遐想—基於物與人的關係視角. in Media Criticism媒介批評, Nanning: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2020, pp. 260-269.
- “The Emperor’s Ambition and the Literati’s Taste: From the Perspective of Flower Arranging in the Painting of ‘Tingqin Tu’”身份與趣味—<聽琴圖>中的鼎插花, in Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Journal湖北美術學院學報, 2020, Vol. 4, pp. 70-75.
- “From Chinese Lotus to ‘Pomegranate Motif’：The Oriental Origin of Italian Textile Design in the 15th Century”從中國蓮花到石榴型圖案—15世紀義大利紡織品設計的東方來源. in Annuals of Transcultural History of Art: A Story Told in Two Ways. Vol.I跨文化美術史年鑒1：一個故事的兩種講法, edited by Li Jun, Shandong Fine Arts Press, pp. 125-168
Book
- Scientific Researches on Textile Archaeology in China, by Zhao Feng, Zhou Yang, Liu Jian et.al. (published by Springer, in preparation) 《中國紡織考古與科學研究》, 趙豐、周旸、劉劍等著，上海：上海科學技術出版社，2018年。
Articles
- “The ‘Material Turn’ in World History and Global History” 全球史的“物質轉向”, by Giorgio Riello. in Global History Review 全球史評論, 2025, Vol. 28, pp. 40–75.
- “For a Fair(er) Global History” 更公平的全球史, by EUI Seminar group, in Annuals of Transcultural History of Art: The Image of the History. Vol. III 跨文化美術史年鑒3：古史的形象. edited by Li Jun, Jinan: Shandong Fine Arts Press, 2022, pp. 497-506.
- “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Proce” 物的文化傳記：商品化作為過程, by Igor Kopytoff, in Annuals of Transcultural History of Art: The Image of the History. Vol. III 跨文化美術史年鑒3：古史的形象. edited by Li Jun, Jinan: Shandong Fine Arts Press, 2022, pp. 399-420.
- “Indigenous Elements In Central Asian Silk Designs Of The Mongol Period, and Their Impact On Italian Gothic Silks” 元朝時期中亞絲綢設計的本土元素及其對義大利哥特式絲綢的影響, by Anne E. Wardwell, in Annuals of Transcultural History of Art: A Story Told in Two Ways. Vol.I跨文化美术史年鉴1：一个故事的两种讲法, edited by Li Jun, Jinan: Shandong Fine Arts Press, 2019, pp. 341-354.
- “Italian Merchants on the Silk Road between the XIIIth and XIVth Centuries” 13-14 世紀絲綢之路上的義大利商人, by Luca Molà, in Finding A Homeland At The End Of The World: The Trans-Cultural Exchanges and Interactions Between China and Italy From the 13th to the 16th Century 在最遙遠的地方尋找故鄉：13—16世紀中國與義大利的跨文化交流, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2018, pp. 295-303. (Co-translator: Liu Shuang)
- “Italian Merchants on the Silk Road between the XIIIth and XIVth Centuries”13-14 世紀絲綢之路上的義大利商人, by Luca Molà, in Embracing the Orient and the Occident: When the Silk Road Meets the Renaissance 無問西東：從絲綢之路到文藝復興, Beijing: Beijing Times Chinese Press, 2018, pp. 365-380.(Co-translator: Liu Shuang)
- 2024-2027 Preside “Scientific Researches on Textile Archaeology in China”, Chinese Academic Translation Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China
- 2023-2025 Preside “Silk Art and the Silk Road in the 13th-14th Centuries”, General Fund of the China Postdoctoral Science Fund，National Postdoctoral Management Committee
- 2024-2026 Team member of “A Comprehensive Collection of Chinese Silks” Project, Zhejiang Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences Circles
Awards
- 2024 KHI/Max-Planck-Institut Scholarship, 36th CIHA Congress
- 2020 China National Scholarship(Ministry of Education, PRC)
- 2020 China Scholarship Council fund
- 2019 Chicago University/Getty Foundation fund for Diss. Workshop
