Xiaoqing Qi

Biography

Dr. Xiaoqing Qi is a researcher specializing in Buddhist artistic exchanges between Chinese cave art and Central Asian art. Since March 2011, she has been affiliated with the Dunhuang Academy, where she was promoted to Associate Researcher in 2015. She earned her PhD in History from Lanzhou University in December 2010. From 2017 to 2021, she pursued postdoctoral research at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Currently, she serves as a tutor for the Master’s programme in Chinese Cultural Heritage at the Ming-Ai (London) Institute. In 2018–2019, as a J. S. Lee Memorial Fellow, she conducted research at the British Museum and the British Library, delivering lectures at institutions including SOAS (University of London), Cambridge University, the British Library, the British Museum, and the Ming-Ai Institute.Dr. Qi is the author of Study on the Social Education in the Period of Guiyijun Regime of Dunhuang and has published over 50 papers and translations in Chinese and English on Asian Buddhist art. She has led and contributed to several major research projects, including: Principal Investigator, National Social Science Foundation of China (NSFC) project: “Research on Foreign Elements in Dunhuang Grottoes and the Interaction of Chinese and Western Cultures” (2021–2024); Collaborator, NSFC project: “Collating and Researching Historical Materials on Dunhuang’s Sino-foreign Relations”.

Research Interests
Buddhism Art; Buddhism Caves on the Silk Road