Ms Nixi Cura
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Key information
- Roles
- Senior Teaching Fellow
- Qualifications
- MA (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
- Building
- Brunei Gallery
- Office
- B304
- Email address
- nc43@soas.ac.uk
- Support hours
- By email appointment
Biography
Nixi Cura read East Asian Studies at Yale University, then specialised in Chinese painting and Buddhist art, with a minor in Romanesque art, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her current research interests include Qing art, especially during the Qianlong reign (1736-1795), collecting and antiquarian practices in the Qing, Republican and Manchukuo periods, and contemporary Chinese visual culture. Nixi serves concurrently as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and co-founded the Arts of China Consortium.
Research interests
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911) painting and material culture
- Qing bannerman and Manchu cultural history
- Qing archaeology and tomb practice
- Collecting and antiquarian practices during the Qing, Republican (1911-1949) and Manchukuo (1932-1945) periods
- Ceramics of the Republican period (1911-1949)
- Modern and contemporary Chinese visual culture