Liu Chen is a Researcher and Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Peking University. She studied at the Department of Philosophy, Peking University from 1997 to 2001, and at Arizona State University from 2002 to 2011, where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in art history before she worked at Peking University in 2013. Her main research areas are Chinese and Japanese art history, especially ancient Chinese narrative painting, portraiture and graphic relationships.