Niping Yan received her B.A. in Literature (2014) and M.A. in History (2017) from Peking University. She is broadly interested in the history of Sino-European encounters from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century, and specializes in Sino-Hispanic interactions. Her dissertation examines the compilation of the Boxer Codex, an illustrated Spanish codex produced in the late sixteenth-century Philippines, to illustrate the problems of knowledge acquisition and production, cultural translation, religious encounters, and colonial conflicts in the early modern world.

Niping Yan and Tianyue Wu, “Collecting, Translating, and Artistic Taste: Manuel de Agote and the Export Paintings of Haichuang Si 收藏、翻译与艺术趣味：西班牙人阿格特与清代海幢寺外销组画” (in Chinese), Literature & Arts Studies 文艺研究, no.9 (2020): 146-160.