Beijing Fashion Institute's Associate Professor Zhang Chi appointed Asian editor of Journal of Design History

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Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology Associate Professor Zhang Chi from the School of Accessory Art and Engineering Appointed as Asian Editor of International Authoritative Journal "Journal of Design History"

Journal of Design History, Volume 38, Issue 1, 2025 Cover Published by: Oxford University Press Image Source: Journal Official Website (for academic information purposes only)

Professor Zhang Chi, a tenured associate professor at the School of Accessory Art and Engineering of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, has been appointed as a member of the editorial board of the internationally top-tier academic journal Journal of Design History, serving as the Asia Editor. This marks the first time the journal has established the position of Asia Editor, and it is currently the only appointment to this role.

The Journal of Design History is an internationally authoritative academic journal hosted by the Design History Society and published by Oxford University Press. It is one of the most important and academically influential journals in the field of design history, consistently publishing high-quality research on design history, material culture, and visual culture. The journal is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) and is recognized as an international core journal in the humanities and arts. Since its inception, the journal has played a key role in advancing design history from a branch of art history to a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary global study.

As the newly appointed Asia Editor, Zhang Chi will dedicate herself to promoting the international dissemination and academic exchange of Asian design history research, facilitating more research achievements from Chinese and Asian scholars to enter the global spotlight. She stated, "In the future, I hope to further promote academic exchange within the global context of design history through editorial work, advance the construction of China's independent design knowledge system, and foster deeper dialogue and understanding of Chinese design history research in the international academic community."

Zhang Chi, a tenured associate professor at the School of Accessory Art and Engineering of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, is currently a visiting scholar at the Royal College of Art in London.

Zhang Chi earned her Ph.D. from the School of Design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and currently serves as a tenured associate professor at the School of Accessory Art and Engineering of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, as well as a visiting scholar at the Royal College of Art. Her primary research focuses on design cultural exchange from a global perspective. She has participated in multiple national and ministerial-level research projects and is the author of *Imagination in a Teacup: The 18th-Century Sino-British Tea Trade and Design Cultural Exchange* (Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 2023) and the English monograph *Beyond the Teacup: 18th Century Sino-British Tea Trade and Design Cultural Exchange* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). She also translated A Taste of Britain in Tea: Tea Culture and Social Life in Visual Art (Peking University Press, 2021). Additionally, she contributed to the compilation of Disciplinary Worlds and World Disciplines: Report on the Development of Art Disciplines (The Commercial Press, 2022) and has published over twenty papers in both Chinese and English.

With a long-term focus on cross-cultural design history research and disciplinary dissemination, Zhang Chi has participated in curating projects such as "What is Good Design: The Arc of Apple Design" (2015, Beijing Design Week) and "Resonance of Clouds and Water, Connection of Mountains and Seas—Invitational Exhibition on Mid-term Research Reports of National Design Policies under the Belt and Road Initiative" (2024, Central Academy of Fine Arts). Her appointment will establish a new bridge for communication between the Journal of Design History and Asian design history research, promoting Chinese design studies on the global academic stage.