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Jeehee Hong is a specialist inÌýthe ritual art and visual cultures of middle-period China (ninth to fourteenth century CE). Her first book,ÌýTheater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000–1400Ìý(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016), explores complex intersections of the visual, mortuary, and everyday worlds, and demonstrates a new phase in the conception of the netherworld and the practice of ancestral worship in China at the beginning of the second millennium.ÌýShe is currently working on three main topics; the first project engages the ontological understanding of the face as a field of negotiations among social, religious, visual conventions in the visual arts of middle-period China; the second investigates changing epistemology of sense perceptions in the visual field from early to middle period; the third is a collaborative effort to probe the boundaries and localityÌýof visual cultures in medieval and middle-period China. Her research questions bring together various mediums and formal categories of art, often inspired by cross-cultural phenomena in the visual world.