Sheng-Ching Chang

Sheng-Ching Chang (張省卿; born 1963 in Tainan, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese art historian.

She serves as the director of the Graduate Institute of Museum Studies at Fu Jen Catholic University and the professor at the Department of History of Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei.

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 1988 to 1997, Chang worked as a journalist for the Taiwanese newspapers Independent Morning Post, 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.

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’.

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.

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’, as well as a series of yearly lectures (2008–) and workshops (2011–) examining ‘World History’.

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, the Taipei National Palace Museum and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

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.

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") 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.

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.