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Yi Gu is an associate professor specializing in modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with a primary focus on Asia, particularly China. His research interests trace the intersections of Cold War visual culture and post-socialist art, comparative media studies, and the history of Chinese photography. He explores topics such as politics and aesthetics, data visualization, and visual methodologies. His book, 'Chinese Ways of Seeing: Open-Air Painting' published by Harvard University Press Asia Center in 2020, discusses the ocular turn in the study of twentieth-century Chinese art and contributes to revising the historical narrative of modern Chinese art. He is currently completing a manuscript on socialist data visualization in the wake of China's contemporary Digital Countryside initiative and serves as a co-editor for the open-access academic journal 'Trans Asia Photography'. Additionally, Gu is a convening member of the research project 'Recalibrating Postwar Chinese Art: Digital Humanities Alternative Archives.'
Department of Sociology