Xinyi Ye

Xinyi is a graduate student of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of Pennsylvania focusing on Chinese art history. Her current research interests include: material culture exchanges between late imperial China and Western Europe, history and theory of archaeology and museum anthropology, and East Asian music.

She graduated from The University of Hong Kong (First Class Honours) with double majors in Art History and Music and a minor in French and studied art history at University of St Andrews as an exchange student. She has excavated Vedi Fortress (Armenia) in Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project in 2022 and 2023 and explored interdisciplinary digital humanities technologies such as bulk 3D photogrammetry of ceramics in archaeological fieldwork. 

She is interested in exploring visual and performing arts as both cultural heritage and living practices in global contexts. She has completed HKU Undergraduate Student Research Fellowship on Chinese Yue opera and has been a member of Penn Jazz Ensemble, Penn Afro-Brazilian Ensemble (formerly Penn Samba Ensemble), HKU Chamber Singers (Hong Kong), St Andrews Chorus (Scotland), and St Leonard's Chapel Choir (Scotland).

At Penn, she is currently the chair of the Penn East Asian Studies Graduate Student Research Colloquium (GSRC) and the EALC department’s representative at Penn’s Graduate Student Government of the School of Arts & Sciences(Sasgov). She also serves as the Graduate Guide at the Penn Museum and the Gallery Ambassador at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

* Xinyi is available as a contact to prospective graduate students, especially MA applicants specializing in Chinese art history.