Yifan Li is a PhD candidate in History of Art who specializes in the history of modern Chinese art and visual culture at The Ohio State University. His dissertation traces how material production in infrastructure, agriculture, and industry mediated the artistic production of landscape imagery in Mao’s China (1949-1976). In addition to the Mershon Center and his home department, Yifan’s project is supported by a 2023-24 OSU Presidential Fellowship, as well as grants from OSU’s East Asian Studies Center, Stanford University East Asia Library, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the East and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Having been presented at such venues as the AAS Annual Conference and College Art Association Annual Conference, Yifan’s work was recognized by the 2022 Best Graduate Student Paper on East and Inner Asia Prize awarded by AAS.