Diana Yang is a doctoral candidate at the Bard Graduate Center in New York. Specializing in East Asian decorative arts, she is particularly interested in early modern ceramics and their pivotal roles in transnational maritime trade as well as in Japanese tea culture. Her ongoing dissertation project builds on her expertise in Asian ceramics and explores the production, circulation, reception, and appropriation of widely-traded Zhangzhou ware (previously known as “Swatow ware”) in its most significant markets: Japan and Southeast Asia. Her work complicates the paradigm of export Asian porcelains, recovers the glory of marginalized trade ceramics for diverse Eastern markets, and recasts varied Asian identities as they were contended, compromised, and constructed throughout porous Asian borders at the turn of the seventeenth century. Prior to joining the BGC, Diana got an M.A. in museum studies/museum anthropology from Columbia University and has since conducted museum and archival research in Japan, China, the Netherlands, and England, in addition to the United States.