Ying Zhang (PhD in History and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan) is a historian of late medieval and early modern China. She teaches at Leiden University as the Leiden Chair of Chinese History. Ying Zhang is interested in exploring the history of Chinese political institutions, literati culture, and gender and family. Her current research is focused on examining the intersections of bureaucracy, law, and society in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). She is the author of two book-length publications: Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China (University of Washington Press, 2016); Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368-1644): Creative Environment, Creative Subjects, Brill Research Perspectives series (Leiden: Brill, 2020). She also co-edited a volume in Chinese,Masculinity Studies [Nanxing yanjiu] (2012).