Jennifer Purtle, PhD (Yale), 2001, is associate professor of Chinese and East Asian art history in the Art History Department at the University of Toronto. She has completed the manuscript, Placing Fujian Painting in Late Imperial Fujian, and is finishing another, Forms of Cosmopolitanism in Sino-Mongol Quanzhou. Her 2024 article, “Rock, Paper, Scissors: Durable Ephemera and Networks of Stone in Quanzhou’s Zhenguo Pagoda,” went viral (10,000+ views, 3000+ downloads) in its first eighteen months in print. Curator and author of Reading Revolution: Art and Literacy during China’s Cultural Revolution (2016), she co-edited Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from the Treaty Ports to World War II (2009). Purtle’s essays have appeared in: Art History, Journal of Asian Studies, Medieval Encounters, Orientations, and The Medieval Globe. She served as principal investigator of the Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories Project “Global and Postglobal Perspectives on Medieval Art and Art History” (2014–17).