Dora Ching, HAA Class of '86

Dora Ching, HAA Class of '86, recently won the Association for Asian Studies Awards 2023 Book Prize for her work "Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves." You can read more at bit.ly/doraching

Dora Ching, a specialist in Chinese painting and calligraphy with particular expertise in Chinese portraiture and Buddhist art of the Silk Road, has served as the associate director and now deputy director of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University since 2002. Before and during her time at the Tang Center, she has been deeply engaged in book editing and publishing, with more than a dozen books to her credit as co-editor or managing editor. She is the author of numerous book chapters and articles and has co-curated three major museum exhibitions. She also occasionally serves as a lecturer at Princeton University; her most recent courses are "Dunhuang: Art and Culture along the Silk Road", and "Portraiture in China." In 2021, she  published "Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves" (9 vols.). She received her AB from Harvard University and her PhD from Princeton University.