Tian Chun is Associate Professor of Art and Design History at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He received his PhD from Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He works on aesthetics and design history, and has published a number of articles and books on these topics. His publications include “The Relationship between Picturesque Idea and Chinese Garden” (Collected Papers of the 18th International Congress of Aesthetics, China Social Science Press, 2014) and Aesthetics of Design (Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, China, 2011). Recently he has been focusing on Chinoiserie in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At Bard Graduate Center, Dr. Chun will continue his research on the subject and will give a talk entitled “Parasols and Pagodas: Lacquer Furniture and East West Exchange in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”.