Sheng-Ching Chang

She attended Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei, Taiwan receiving a B.A. with a major in history and a minor in international trade. From 1986 to 1995, she studied at the University of Hamburg in Germany, obtaining a master's degree in art history and history with her thesis Das Porträt von Johann Adam Schall von Bell in Athanasius Kirchers ‘China illustrata’ (The Portrait of Johann Adam Schall von Bell in Athanasius Kircher’s ‘China illustrata’). From 1996 until 2002, she studied at the Department of Art History of Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany where she received her PhD with her thesis The Image of China in Nature and Landscape of Athanasius Kircher’s ‘China illustrata’.

From 1988 to 1997, Chang worked as a journalist for the Taiwanese newspapers Independent Morning Post,[2] Independent Evening Post and Independent Weekly Post. She wrote for magazines such as Artist, ARTIMA and Art of Collection in Taipei and Nineties in Hong Kong. She was also a photographic reporter for the Taiwanese edition of National Geographic Magazine and an editor for the German magazines Diskus and Pen, which discusses topics including the development of art and culture in Europe and Asia.[3]

Chang worked as an assistant professor of history and art history at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei National University of Arts and National Taiwan University of Arts in Taipei from 2002 until 2006. She was later appointed full associate professor (2009) and full professor (2016) at the History Department and Graduate Institute of Fu Jen University. In 2018, she was an adjunct professor at the Graduate Institute of Art History at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan. Since 2020, she has served as the director of the Graduate Institute of Museum Studies at Fu Jen. Her research focus has been European art history in the global context, the history of artistic and cultural exchange between the East and the West, the methodology of art history and the history of colonial urban development.

Since 2005, along with her lecturing responsibilities, Chang has organized yearly conferences in collaboration with her colleagues at Fu Jen Catholic University on the ‘History of Cultural Exchange’,[4] as well as a series of yearly lectures (2008–) and workshops (2011–) examining ‘World History’.[5] She has organized panels at institutions across Asia and Europe, including the Institute of History at the University of Oxford, the University of Munich, the Institute of Oriental Studies of Jagiellonian University in Kraków,[6] the Taipei National Palace Museum and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.[7] In 2019 Chang was at the Jagiellonian University as a special professor, where she lectured on “Chinese Art History and Its Globalization" (on the following six subjects: “Chinese Cities: Beijing,” “Chinese Gardens: Suzhou Gardens,” “Chinese Architecture: Nanjing Pagoda,” “Chinese Painting: Landscape Painting,” “Chinese Sculpture: Buddha statues” and “Chinese Handicraft: Blue and White Porcelain")[8] Further, she edited the Fu Jen Historical Journal, reviewed the Journal of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts and sat on scholarships and history research association boards.

• 1990 – 1995               Scholarship from the German Friedrich - Naumann Foundation for a Master’s degree
• 1996 – 1999               Scholarship from the German Heinrich - Böll Foundation for a PhD
• 2000 – 2001               Scholarship from the Taipei Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for PhD students in the Europe International Scholarly Exchange Program
• 2003                           Financial support from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for the publication of a monograph [9]
• 2003                           Grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan
• 2007 – 2008               Grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan: The influence of German style urban planning on the central area of administrative buildings in the city of Taipei by the Japanese colonial administration
• 2006 – 2009, 2013     Five-time recipient of the Annual Award from Fu Jen Catholic University for research achievements
• 2010 – 2011               Grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan: Reconstruction of Chinese style gardens in Germany from 17th and 18th Century
• 2011 – 2012               Grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan: The Reconstruction of Chinese Style Gardens in Eastern Germany in the latter half of the 18th century using the example of the Garden of Wörlitz (1700-1813)
• 2016 – 2018               Grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan: The Construction of Chinoiserie Gardens in 18 th Century Sanssouci in Potsdam, Prussia
• 2017                           Received the Academic Research Award of Fu Jen Catholic University for a monograph
• 2018 – 2021               Grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan: The beautiful Utopia in Images of Mechanics from 17th and 18th century Europe and Exchange with China
• 2019 – 2021               Grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan: Exchange of Chinese and Western scientific images in the 17th and 18th centuries (II) with the example of the Yijing binary diagrams
• 2020 – 2021               Grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan: Scientific and Artistic exchange between China and the West in the 17th and 18th centuries based on binary diagrams from Yijing (III)[10]

• April 28th 2023, "The Humanistic Essence of European Art History - On the Collection of the Apostolic Library of the Vatican", hosted by the National Palace Museum, a special lecture at the Northern Branch of The National Palace Museum.
• Dec. 11th 2021, "Chinese Elements in European Natural Landscape Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment", hosted by the National Palace Museum, a special speech at the Southern Branch of The National Palace Museum.

• Sheng-Ching Chang - Graduate Institute of Museum Studies at Fu Jen Catholic University
• Sheng-Ching Chang - Department of History at Fu Jen Catholic University
• Sheng-Ching Chang - Academia.edu
• Sheng-Ching Chang - Researchgate.net
• Sheng-Ching Chang - NCL Periodical Information Center
• Sheng-Ching Chang - scholar.google.com