Yifan Li is a specialist in modern Chinese art and visual culture, with research interests in transnationalism, transmediality, materiality, and art and ecology. His current book project examines the visual representation of the politics and aesthetics of infrastructure campaigns in the early People’s Republic of China. Yifan has also contributed to several curatorial projects in collaboration with North American museums, including the exhibition China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Before earning his PhD from the Ohio State University, Yifan received training in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Canada.