The Sick Man of Asia: Empire, Science & Your Body @GreshamCollege
The Sick Man of Asia: Empire, Science & Your Body  @GreshamCollege
Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This lecture was recorded by Dr Di Wang on the 8th of June 2026 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London

Dr Di Wang is an art historian and curator. Her work focuses on art and culture of East Asia from the late-nineteenth century to the present.

Following her doctorate at the University of Oxford, she has taught as a departmental lecturer and research associate at the Department of History of Art at Oxford. Her first book project reveals the surprising entanglement of medicine, science, and revolutionary politics in the genesis of a socially engaged modern art and visual culture in China, offering the first inter-disciplinary history on how science and medicine shaped the contours of avant-garde thinking in China during the modern period.

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/nude-china

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