Zhang 瘴, Shu 暑, and the Traveling Embassy Avoiding Heat at the Mountain Resort of Emperor Qianlong

Y. L. Lucy Wang is an architectural historian, curator, educator, and Ph. D. candidate at Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archaeology. Her dissertation traces the emergence of professionalized architecture in the Greater China region, examining how a hygienic consciousness entered into architectural expertise and how architects, doctors, land-surveyors, and engineers integrated new understandings of disease into their work, and her research broadly addresses global modernisms and diasporic architecture.