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Dr. Yanhua Zhou is an affiliate faculty of Contemporary Chinese Art and Gender at the Department of East Asian Studies and Associate Director of Wanwu Art Research Lab. She also serves as a Professor of Art History at the Research Center for Visual Art, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China. Born in Chongqing, China, Dr. Zhou obtained her PhD in East Asian Studies focusing on Chinese Anthropology from the University of Arizona, and a Master of Art History from the University of St Andrews, United Kingdom. Taking an interdisciplinary approach combining art history, anthropology, area studies, and cultural studies, her research focuses on the issue of art and geographic politics of contemporary art in Asia, global socially engaged art in a transnational context, affective infrastructural studies, and non-human agency in art.