Yi Ding received her doctorate in Aesthetics from the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Philosophy at Kyoto University. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2022) and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (2022, 2023). Her main research interests include the development of modern Chinese aesthetics, comparative studies of Eastern and Western aesthetics, and art theory in general.