Mengqiu Tian

2019-2022:

• Master study of Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens and Sinologie at Heidelberg Universität. Research interest lay in illustrations of the life of the Buddha. Field study at Dunhuang grottoes (09, 2021) and the musée Guimet (01, 2022) funded by Heinz-Götze travel grant. Also, joined excursions organized by the falculty at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich (10, 2021), Humboldt Forum at Berlin (01, 2022) and the British Museum, London (08, 2022).

2016:

• One-year visitor of SOAS, University of London. Visited the Stein's collection at the BM and attended some workshops concerning Buddhist studies and Buddhist art.

Symposia:

• presented "The Evolution of the Legend of Māra’s Daughters in Three Early Indian Literature" at the international conference "Diverse Lives: Narratives of Śākyamuni Buddha in Text and Image" at the Royal Museum of Mariemont (10, 2024)
• presented "Representations of Women Bicycle Riders as a Form of a Resistance in the Kangzhan shiqi (1937–1945)" at the international conference “Redefining Modernity - Multivalent Artistic Expressions during the First-Half of the 20th Century” organized by Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University and the College of Arts of Sichuan University. (09, 2022)

Publications:

• Second author, with Wu Hongliang, “Paintings as Farewell: An Album Accomplished by Pu Quan and Other Artists in Beijing in 1948” in Ink and Oil: Chinese Artists Trained in Europe (1920-1945), ed. Sarah E. Fraser, Shen Kuiyi, Giulia Pra Floriani. Brill Publications, Leiden (2025?)
• "The Evolution of the Legend of Māra's Daughters in Early Indian Buddhist Literature" in The Indian International Jouranl of Buddhist Studies, No.23, 2023