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Daria Berg
Daria Berg, D.Phil. (Oxford) in Chinese studies, is chair professor (ordinaria) of Chinese culture and society at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She has published extensively on Chinese literature, visual art and culture and she has won international prizes for research, including the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 2015 Specialist Publication Accolade for her monograph Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580–1700 (Routledge, 2013) and, with Giorgio Strafella, the China Information Best Article Prize 2015. Her current research explores visual art, media, literature and culture in traditional and contemporary China. Her latest book, co-edited with Giorgio Strafella, is China’s Avant-Garde, 1978–2018 (Routledge, 2022).
Contact: School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Unterer Graben 21, CH-9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland.