Yannick LINTZ is Heritage Chief Curator (France) and has served as President of the Musée Guimet (The Guimet—National Museum of Asian Arts, France) since November 2022.

Dr. Lintz began her career as Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Agen. Between 2000 and 2002, she served as Advisor on Museums and Heritage to Jack Lang, then Minister of National Education of France. She joined the Musée du Louvre in 2003 and led its Department of Islamic Arts from 2013 to 2022. During that time, she implemented an ambitious outreach policy to promote this artistic and cultural field both in France and internationally, developing innovative projects aimed at shifting public perception of Islamic arts. Among these was the national initiative Arts of Islam: A Past for a Present in 2021—18 simultaneous educational exhibitions held in 18 French cities. In 2018, she organised the exhibition The Louvre in Tehran at the National Museum of Iran. Her final exhibition at the Louvre, Splendors of the Oases of Uzbekistan, was a major cultural and diplomatic event that unveiled previously unseen masterpieces from this crossroads of civilisations.

Dr. Lintz also has extensive teaching experience, having served as Associate Professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (University of Paris I) from 2003 to 2015, and at the Université Senghor d'Alexandrie (Senghor University in Alexandria), where she taught the history of museums and heritage promotion strategies. She is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and the National Order of Merit, as well as a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Dr. Lintz holds a PhD in History from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, with a specialisation on the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

Mr. Pierre BAPTISTE is Director of Collections and Conservation at the Musée Guimet (The Guimet—National Museum of Asian Arts, France) and has been overseeing the museum’s Southeast Asian arts collection since 1996. An art historian, he lectures at the École du Louvre in Paris and at the Faculty of Archaeology of the Royal University of Cambodia in Phnom Penh.

Mr. Baptise led the renovation of the Musée Guimet’s Southeast Asian galleries from 1996 to 2001, after which he renewed the museum’s ties with its counterparts in Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. He has authored numerous in-depth articles on specific subjects related to the arts of these countries, and has participated in the writing and scientific direction of several books devoted to these fields, including French Archaeological Missions in Vietnam: The Monuments of Champa, Photographs and Itineraries, 1902–1904 (2005) and Khmer Art in the Guimet Collection (French Edition) (2008). He was Scientific Curator of several prominent exhibitions organised at the Musée Guimet on these issues, including Treasures of Art of Vietnam—The Sculpture of Champa (2005); Dvaravati: The Sources of Buddhism in Thailand (2009); Angkor, the Birth of a Myth—Louis Delaporte and Cambodia (2013); and The Flight of the Dragon—Royal Art of Vietnam (2014), all of which led to the publication of catalogues of which he served as Scientific Director. In 2025, he was Co-Curator of the exhibition Angkor Royal Bronzes: Art of the Divine.

Mr. Baptiste is a graduate of the École du Louvre and the Université Paris-Cité.

Dr. Arnaud BERTRAND has served as Curator of Korean and Ancient Chinese Collections at the Musée Guimet (The Guimet—National Museum of Asian Arts, France) since September 2023. He was the Co-Curator of the exhibitions Gold Ming: the Splendours and Beauties of Imperial China (14th–17th century) (2024) and Tang China: A Cosmopolitan Dynasty (7th–10th century) (2024). In 2026, he is preparing two exhibitions dedicated to Korea.

An archaeologist and sinologist, Dr. Bertrand currently also serves as Researcher in the ‘Archaeology of Central Asia’ team of the Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (ArScAn; Research Unit for the Archaeologies and Sciences of Antiquity), and as a member of the Centre de Recherches sur l'Extrême Orient de Paris-Sorbonne (CREOPS; Research Centre for Far Eastern Studies of the Paris-Sorbonne University). He has been teaching at the Institut Catholique de Paris (Catholic Institute of Paris) since 2018, and has been teaching on Asian civilisations at the École du Louvre since 2024, giving the very first course dedicated to the civilisations of Korea.

Dr. Bertrand has participated in French archaeological missions in Uzbekistan, then in China with the Dunhuang Academy, where he worked for many years on the history of ancient fortifications. His research always articulates the dialogue between civilisations, through a meticulous study of works of art placed in their context of creation, by bringing them closer to texts, and other vestiges of the past. He was Executive Director of the French Association of Friends of the Orient (2014–2023), then Head of Cultural Programming for the Asian Spring (2022–2024). In 2021, he co-founded the Asia Collections Network—Europe, the first European network that maps Asian collections in Europe, and networks specialists. He is also an author for the Youtube channel ‘Nota Bene’, and a scientific advisor for historical documentaries on China.

Dr. Bertrand holds a PhD in History and Sinology from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE; Practical School of Advanced Studies).

Dr. Claire DÉLÉRY is a heritage curator and serves as Curator of Chinese Ceramics at the Musée Guimet (The Guimet—National Museum of Asian Arts, France). She has curated several exhibitions on Chinese ceramics at the Musée Guimet, and has collaborated, with Huei-chung Tsao, on the project of exhaustive study of Chinese porcelain in the Santos Palace in Lisbon. She has a PhD in Medieval History from Université Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès and a degree in the field of laboratory analysis of art objects.

Dr. Hélène GASCUEL is Curator of Chinese Furniture and Textile at the Musée Guimet (The Guimet—National Museum of Asian Arts, France). A specialist in the history of decorative arts and textile in China, she has directed several major exhibitions, including Gold Ming: The Splendours and Beauties of Imperial China (14th – 17th century) and Sublime Materials: Through 5,000 Years of Creation in China. Also active in academic research, she co-authored a study on a China Trade screen kept at the National Archives, published in the journal Technè and has published 8 articles in the journal Arts Asiatiques. She holds a PhD in Art History from the Université Paris-Sorbonne.

Ms. Huei-chung TSAO has served as Researcher of Chinese Collections at the Musée Guimet (The Guimet—National Museum of Asian Arts, France) since the 1990s. She is Scientific Director of the online project ‘Masterpieces from the Grandidier Collection of Chinese Ceramics’, launched in 2004 by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux—Grand Palais (RMN–GP; Assembly of National Museums – Grand Palais) in collaboration with the Musée Guimet, featuring a selection of 2,000 pieces of Chinese ceramics.

Ms. Tsao has curated numerous exhibitions on China at the Musée Guimet, including Treasures of Ancient China: Ritual Bronzes from the Meiyintang Collection (2012); Splendours of the Han Dynasty (2014); Jade: From the Emperors to Art Deco (2016); A Firmament of Porcelain (2019); and Tang China: A Cosmopolitan Dynasty (2024). She has also co-curated international exhibitions such as Emperor Kangxi and the Sun King Louis XIV (Palace Museum, Taipei, 2011) and West Encounters East (Shanghai Museum, 2021), and contributed to corresponding exhibition catalogues. In addition, she has contributed to more than a dozen publications in French, English and Chinese, including The Art of China, revised and expanded edition (1997); Treasures from the Palace Museum, Taipei: Memories of Empire (1998); Land of Snow, Ice and Shadow: Fourteen Centuries of Chinese Ceramics through the Musée Guimet Collections (1999); From the Forgotten Deserts: Centuries of Dazzling Dunhuang Art (2005); Travel Notebooks, 1906–1908: Paul Pelliot (2008); The Forbidden City at the Louvre (2011); Sublime Materials (2014); Chinese Porcelain from the Palace of Santos (2021; Winner of the Art Book Award) co-edited with Claire Déléry; and Glaze and Glory (2022).

Ms. Tsao is a graduate of the Taiwan University and the École du Louvre.

Dr. Valérie ZALESKI is Curator of Chinese and Central Asian Buddhist Art and Chinese Painting Collections at the Musée Guimet (The Guimet—National Museum of Asian Arts, France). She has curated several exhibitions, including Tajikistan, in the Land of Golden Rivers (2021, Musée Guimet), T'ang Haywen, a Chinese Painter in Paris (1927–1991) (2024, Musée Guimet), Kazakhstan, Treasures of the Great Steppe (2024, Musée Guimet), and The Silk Roads (2024, Draguignan). She is also Associate Researcher at the Centre de Recherche sur les Civilisations de l’Asie Orientale (CRCAO; Centre for Research on East Asian Civilisations), a member of the Centre de Recherches sur l'Extrême Orient de Paris-Sorbonne (CREOPS; Research Centre for Far Eastern Studies of the Paris-Sorbonne University), and author of articles on Buddhist art in China, Tajikistan and Thailand. She is a graduate of the École du Louvre and holds a PhD in Art History from the Université Paris-Sorbonne.

Dr. Lise MÉSZ is Director of Villa Guimet, an international research center for Asian arts at the Musée Guimet (The Guimet—National Museum of Asian Arts, France). As a heritage curator, archaeologist, and specialist in ancient Peru, she has participated in several archaeological missions in France and abroad, and has conducted excavations in Peru, Syria, and Bangladesh. She has worked at the Direction for Heritage and Architecture in the Ministry of Culture, the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research, the National Archives, and the Musée du Louvre, where she began conducting research on the history of non-European art collections. At Paris Musées, she served as Deputy Director of Collections and Research, overseeing the collections of 14 municipal museums in Paris. At the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, she held the position of Advisor to the President on the history of collections, responsible for researching the provenance of African cultural property, and Deputy Director of Collections and Heritage. Dr. Mész holds a PhD in Archaeology from the Université Paris-Sorbonne.

Dr. Édouard DE SAINT-OURS is Curator of Photographic Collections at the Musée Guimet (The Guimet— National Museum of Asian Arts, France) and Head of Photography at the Villa Guimet, an international research center for Asian arts at the museum. He holds a PhD in Art History and Contemporary History from the Universities of St Andrews and Le Havre Normandie. Specialising in 19th-century photography in Asia, he defended his thesis in 2024, examining the role of photography in the early years of French colonialism in Indochina (1845–1879). He has also conducted research on the history of early color processes and the Franco-British networks that contributed to the development of photography in the 1840s and 1850s.

Ms. Cristina CRAMEROTTI is Library Curator at the Musée Guimet (The Guimet—National Museum of Asian Arts, France) and a researcher specialising in Asian cultures and arts. Her work focuses on intercultural networks related to museum libraries, with a particular emphasis on exchanges between Asia and the West. She has published several notable works, including French-Burmese Dictionary (2014), co-authored with Denise Bernot and Yin Yin Myint, Asian Characters: Library Treasures (2018), and Vagrant Investigations: Émile Guimet's Illustrated Journey to Asia (2017), co-authored with Pierre Baptiste. She is a graduate of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO; National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS; School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences).

Ms. Mélodie DOUMY is Lead Curator of Chinese Collections (Stein and Hoernle) and Manager of the International Dunhuang Programme at the British Library. Her research encompasses the material cultures of China and the Eastern Silk Road, Buddhism, the history of collections, and cultural diplomacy.

Before joining the British Library, Ms. Doumy served as Assistant Curator for the Gilbert Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). She recently curated the exhibition A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang at the British Library. Her publications focus on the materiality of Dunhuang manuscripts and the associated social and religious practices. Recent works include ‘The Life and Afterlife of a Funerary Divination Scroll’ in Saved from Desert Sands, edited by Imre Galambos and Kelsey Granger; ‘Charles-Eudes Bonin: the first French Person to visit Dunhuang’ (Silk Roads Archaeology and Heritage, 2023); ‘The Diamond Sutra’ in The Book by Design, edited by Philippa Marks (British Library Publishing, 2023); and ‘Dunhuang Texts’ in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Ms. Doumy holds a BA in Art History and Archaeology and an MA in Museum Studies from École du Louvre, a BA in Chinese from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientale (INALCO; National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations) and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.

Ms. Anne YANOVER is an art historian and has served as Director of Programming and Audience Engagement at the Musée Guimet (The Guimet—National Museum of Asian Arts, France) since May 2023. She currently oversees the museum’s temporary exhibitions, publications, educational and cultural outreach, and artistic and cultural programming. Additionally, she leads the development of the Guimet+ programme and other projects both in France and internationally.

From 2007 to 2014, Ms. Yanover worked at the Videomuseum, where she supported 60 French public collections of modern and contemporary art in documenting, managing, and promoting their collections. She then joined the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Paul Eluard (Paul Eluard Art and History Museum) in Saint-Denis, France as Head of Collections in 2014 and was appointed Director of the museum in 2019. Between 2015 and 2023, she curated 12 exhibitions primarily focused on modern and contemporary art.

Ms. Yanover is a graduate of the Université Paris-Sorbonne.

Ms. Christine BOUILLOC is Director of the Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot (MARQ) in Clermont-Ferrand, France. A key initiative under her direction is the Guimet+ partnership with the Musée Guimet, which brings major exhibitions of Asian art to Clermont-Ferrand over four years (2024 to 2028), focusing on China, Japan, the Himalayan world, and India each year.

Prior to her role at MARQ, Ms. Bouilloc had served as Director of the Musée Bargoin, also in Clermont-Ferrand. There, she developed the museum’s reputation for archaeological and textile collections and co-commissioned the International Festival of Extraordinary Textiles (FITE), a biennial event dedicated to global textile cultures.

Yannick LINTZ is Heritage Chief Curator (France) and has served as President of the Musée Guimet (The Guimet—National Museum of Asian Arts, France) since November 2022.

Dr. Lintz began her career as Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Agen. Between 2000 and 2002, she served as Advisor on Museums and Heritage to Jack Lang, then Minister of National Education of France. She joined the Musée du Louvre in 2003 and led its Department of Islamic Arts from 2013 to 2022. During that time, she implemented an ambitious outreach policy to promote this artistic and cultural field both in France and internationally, developing innovative projects aimed at shifting public perception of Islamic arts. Among these was the national initiative Arts of Islam: A Past for a Present in 2021—18 simultaneous educational exhibitions held in 18 French cities. In 2018, she organised the exhibition The Louvre in Tehran at the National Museum of Iran. Her final exhibition at the Louvre, Splendors of the Oases of Uzbekistan, was a major cultural and diplomatic event that unveiled previously unseen masterpieces from this crossroads of civilisations.

Dr. Lintz also has extensive teaching experience, having served as Associate Professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (University of Paris I) from 2003 to 2015, and at the Université Senghor d'Alexandrie (Senghor University in Alexandria), where she taught the history of museums and heritage promotion strategies. She is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and the National Order of Merit, as well as a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Dr. Lintz holds a PhD in History from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, with a specialisation on the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

Dr. Jay XU served as Director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco from 2008 to 2025 and was the first Chinese American director at a major art museum in the United States. An award-winning scholar of Chinese art, Dr. Xu focuses his academic research particularly on ancient Chinese bronzes and archaeology, and has also worked on topics in Chinese painting and calligraphy, Chinese ceramics, history of Chinese art collecting and museum development, and contemporary Chinese art. He lectures extensively on Asian art, including contemporary art, and on museum practice.

Dr. Xu has had forty years of international museum experience, having served as Head of the Asian Art department and Chairman of the Department of Asian and Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (2003–08), Curator of Chinese art at the Seattle Art Museum (1996–2003), Research Fellow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1995–96), and assistant to the museum director at the Shanghai Museum (1983–1990). He is a member of the Committee of 100 and the first Asian American museum director elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also serves as board member or advisor for various institutions in the U.S. and in China, including the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, the Harvard Art Museums, the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies in UC Berkeley, the Shanghai Museum, the Wen C. Fong Center for Chinese Art & Archaeology at the Tsinghua University Art Museum, Chengdu Museum, and more. Dr. Xu holds an MA and a PhD in Early Chinese Art and Archaeology from Princeton University.

Dr. Wang Guanyu is Associate Curator (Antiquities) at the Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She focuses on the research of the production, trade and consumption of Chinese porcelain during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the interactions of material civilisation between East and West in early globalisation.

Dr. Wang has participated in several archaeological projects in mainland China, two of which were awarded ‘China’s Top 10 New Archaeological Discoveries’ (2006 and 2009). She has curated several exhibitions on ceramics, including Refilling the Interregnum: Newly Discovered Imperial Porcelains from the Zheng Tong, Jingtai and Tianshun Reigns (1436-1464) of the Ming Dynasty (2018) and Enchanting Expeditions: Chinese Trade Porcelains across the Globe (2021). She has published articles in prominent journals such as Archaeology and Cultural Relics, Palace Museum Journal, and Journal of Maritime History Studies. She is now co-investigating a General Research Fund (GRF) project ‘The Ming Court and the World Beyond: Production, Circulation and Consumption of Dragon Porcelain from the 15th to the Early 17th Centuries’. She is Co-Curator of the exhibition Yuan Blue and White: New Discoveries from Jingdezhen held in collaboration with the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute, set to open at the Art Museum of the CUHK in November 2025.

Dr. Wang holds a PhD in the History of Chinese Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. As J. S. Lee Memorial Fellow (2014/15), she spent five months at the Museum of Mosteiro Santa Clara-a-Velha in Coimbra, Portugal, where she conducted research on Chinese ceramics excavated from the monastery, and curated the special exhibition Memory of the Golden Age: Chinese Porcelains of 16th Century in the Old Monastery of Santa Clara.

Dr. Jessica HARRISON-HALL F.S.A. is Keeper (Head) of the Asia Department and Curator of the Sir Percival David Collection at the British Museum. She was Lead Curator for the permanent galleries Sir Percival David Collection and the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery for China.

Dr. Harrison-Hall has led two major Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) projects—one with Prof. Craig Clunas and Dr. Yu-ping Luk (2012-2016) investigating early Ming courts and their contacts and the other with Prof. Julia Lovell and Wenyuan Xin (2018–2024) researching cultural creativity and resilience in China’s long 19th century. Both involved extensive international partnerships. She has curated several blockbuster exhibitions, authored and co-authored books including Ming Ceramics in the British Museum (2001), China: A History in Objects (2018), Ming: 50 Years that Changed China (2014), China’s Hidden Century: 1796–1912 (2023; winner of the 2025 Bei Shan Tang Catalogue Prize), Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives from Empire to Republic, 1796—1912 (2023) and China’s 1800s: Material and Visual Culture (2024).

Dr. Harrison-Hall read Chinese and Fine Art at Edinburgh University and received her PhD from the University of East Anglia.

Dr. Xiaoxin LI serves as Curator of Chinese collections at the Asia Department at the V&A, overseeing a diverse array of decorative art and design objects spanning from the Neolithic era to contemporary times. Her expertise and research interests cover Chinese ceramics, lacquerware, furniture, export art, 19th-century material culture, as well as modern and contemporary craft and design. A recipient of the Art Fund New Collecting Award, Xiaoxin is currently working on a project focused on the acquisition, display, and publication of Chinese contemporary studio craft.

Prior to her current role, Dr. Li served as Assistant Curator at the V&A between 2013-2015, and Collections Assistant at the Oriental Museum of Durham University between 2010-2012. She curated the Malcolm MacDonald Gallery of Chinese Art and Archaeology during her time in Durham.

Dr. Li holds a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from SOAS, University of London.

Ms. Jan STUART is the Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asia Art (NMAA; Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery). Her curatorial focus is primarily on arts of the Song to Qing dynasty, also with an interest in contemporary art. Opening in January 2026 at NMAA, her co-curated exhibition Into the Waters with Senju and Bingyi: Two Contemporary Paintings features a new museum acquisition by Bingyi, and an essay on Xu Bing’s ‘Monkeys’ was recently published. Research on kuancai (aka Coromandel) lacquer screens continues, as does a multidisciplinary project for which she is the lead editor to be published as a book on the Freer Gallery’s Chinese ceramic collection.

Prior to her current role at NMAA, Ms. Stuart was Keeper of Asia (Department Chair) at the British Museum from 2006 to 2014, and before that a curator at the Freer and Sackler. She received the Secretary of the Smithsonian’s Research Award for her international exhibition and book with collaborator Daisy Yiyou Wang, Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644–1912.

Ms. Stuart lectures frequently, including having presented two keynote lectures at international symposia in 2024: on kuancai lacquer, at City University Hong Kong and on Cheng Qi’s Sericulture painting at Zhejiang University. At the British Museum, in addition to senior management, Ms. Stuart led projects for a new gallery to house the Sir Percival David Collection of Chinese ceramics and a new gallery display of the painting, Admonitions from the Instructress to Court Ladies. She holds degrees from Yale and Princeton Universities.

Ms. Marie-Laure DE ROCHEBRUNE is Honorary General Curator at the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon).

Ms. de Rochebrune previously served as Curator in the Department of Decorative Arts at the Musée du Louvre before joining the Conservation Department of the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon in 2010. In 2021, she became Chief General Curator of the Châteaux de Versailles, where she managed and conducted research on the European and Chinese ceramics collections. She was also responsible for the Petit Trianon. Her notable exhibitions include The Splendour of Painting on Porcelain: Charles Nicolas Dodin and the Vincennes-Sèvres Manufactory in the 18th Century (2012), China in Versailles: Art and Diplomacy in the 18th Century (2014), and The Taste of Marie Leczinska (2019). In recent years, she has played a key role in establishing a new exhibition space for the porcelain collection used for receptions at the Château de Versailles.

Marie-Laure de Rochebrune holds a master’s degree in History from the Sorbonne Université and a master’s degree from the École du Louvre in Paris. After graduation, she passed the Heritage Curator exam and worked at the French National Institute of Cultural Heritage for 18 months.

Mr. GUO Fuxiang is Research Fellow at the Palace Museum, where he concurrently serves as Chief Researcher of the Imperial History Department and Director of the Institute of International Cultural Exchange under the Institute of Gugong Studies. He specialises in the preservation, exhibition, and research of the museum’s imperial collections. His research encompasses the history of Chinese clocks, the collection history of imperial clocks, imperial seals of emperors and empresses, Sino-Western cultural exchange, the history of Qianlong jade, and court life.

Mr. Guo has curated exhibitions of foreign artefacts, clocks, watches, and scientific instruments at the Kulangsu Gallery of Foreign Artefacts, the Macau Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Science Museum, and the Science Museum in London. He has actively participated in local and international academic seminars and engaged in academic exchanges in the U.K, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland. His publications include several monographs, with notable works such as Chinese Emperors and Foreigners (2002, 2016), Imperial Seals of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (2003), The Chinese Legend of Clocks (French edition) (2005), Historical Images of Time: A Collection of Essays on the History of Chinese Clocks (2013), Research on Qianlong Court Manas Jade (2015), Collection of Qingtian Stone at the Palace Museum (Editor) (2020), and The Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles: Sino-French Exchanges in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Editor) (2024), among others.

Mr. Guo graduated in 1989 from Jilin University with a degree in Museum Studies from the Department of Archaeology. As J. S. Lee Memorial Fellow (2013/14), he spent six months at the Palace Museum, Taipei, where he conducted research on Qianlong and Suzhou jade carvings, as well as seals of Wen Peng.

Dr. Daisy Yiyou WANG is the founding Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM). She leads the HKPM’s award-winning programmes in curation and research, exhibition management, collection, conservation, publication, exhibition design, multimedia, and learning.

Prior to her tenure at the HKPM, Dr. Wang had served as Chinese Art Specialist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, Curator of Chinese and East Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Boston, and Getty Museum Leadership Fellow at the Asia Society Museum in New York. A specialist of the history of art collecting, Ming lacquer, and Qing court portraiture and textile, Dr. Wang has published in China and internationally and received a number of awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, a Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award. Dr. Wang co-curated the ground-breaking exhibition Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, which was named the ‘Most Influential International Exhibition from Chinese Museums’ in 2019 and the ‘Best Thematic/Historical Show’ in 2018 by the Boston Globe. She co-edited this exhibition’s catalogue, which received the Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize. A leader in international museum professional exchange, she has served as the founding Chair of the American Alliance of Museum’s China Program.

Dr. Chen SHEN is Co-Chief Curator, Art and Culture and Senior Curator of Chinese Art and Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). He is responsible for the research and management of a collection comprising nearly one million artifacts—representing cultures from around the world across the centuries into the modern era—of which more than 43,000 are Chinese artifacts. A specialist in the material culture of Early China, prehistory technology, cultural heritage study, and museology, Dr. Shen also teaches courses at the Department of East Asian Studies including Art and Archaeology of Early China and Technology and Material Culture in Ancient China at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Shen joined the ROM in 1997 as the inaugural Bishop White Curator of Chinese art and archaeology. His curatorial research focuses on making ancient Chinese objects relevant to our understanding of Chinese cultures in contemporary society. Dr. Shen has curated many exhibitions at ROM, including 2002’s critically acclaimed Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan, and 2014’s popular The Forbidden China: Inside the Court of China’s Emperors. The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army (2010) garnered one of the highest attendances in ROM’s history. His recent curated exhibition was Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery (2023). Among his numerous publications include Relevance and Application of Heritage in Contemporary Society (2018) and Entering the World of Wonder: Thoughts on Contemporary Museum (2018). Dr. Chen holds a BA in Archaeology from Wuhan University, an MA in Anthropological Archaeology from the Tulsa University in Oklahoma, and a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Toronto.