Li Zhang is a Ph.d candidate in major of design history in Academy of Design and Arts, Tsinghua University, China; Currently she is visiting at Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley, USA. Gender issues in design history and theory wi
...MoreLi Zhang is a Ph.d candidate in major of design history in Academy of Design and Arts, Tsinghua University, China; Currently she is visiting at Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley, USA. Gender issues in design history and theory with cultural studies and feminist ideas are the intended themes in her thesis for ph.d degree. She has earned The Resident Graduate Scholarship (RGS) in Feb, 2010, granted by David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies in Hong Kong Baptist University, and published her project thesis: “Focus on Body: Women’s Identities and Space Design.”
She is translator of Design Classics (Beijing: CABP, 2010), Modern Interior Design (co-translator, Chongqing: Chongqing University Press, 2010) and The Idea of Design: A Design Issues Reader (in process, will be published by Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press in 2011). She has also issued more than 10 articles in Chinese on feminist design, consumer culture, fashion and body-identity.
Gender, body and identity issues concerning design history and theory are the present interests to her research.
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