Professor Chia-Ling Yang specialises in Chinese art at the University of Edinburgh. She received her first degree in Chinese Literature from the National Taiwan University, an MA in Art History from the University of Warwick and her PhD in Art and Archaeology from SOAS, University of London. She has been a visiting scholar at the Academia Sinica (Taiwan, 2000) and Heidelberg University (Germany, 2001-02), and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to research and teach Art History at the University of Chicago (2003-04). Yang was a lecturer in Chinese art at the University of Sussex (2004-07) and SOAS, University of London (2007-09) before she moved to Edinburgh. She also delivered lectures at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum on Chinese painting.