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Contributors Aurelia Campbell is Assistant Professor of East Asian art
history at Boston College. She is currently completing a
book entitled Architecture and Empire in the Reign of Yongle,
1402–1424, which investigates a far-flung network of
buildings patronised by the Yongle emperor, including the
Forbidden City in Beijing, a Daoist temple complex on
Mount Wudang in Hubei province and a Buddhist
monastery at the Sino-Tibetan frontier. Other current
research interests include architectural ornamentation,
Buddhist material culture and Tibetan architecture in
China.

Carla Nappi is the Canada Research Chair of Early
Modern Studies and Associate Professor of History at the
University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She specialises
in the history of China, science and translation.

Caroline R. Cartwright is the Senior Scientist and
Wood Anatomist in the Department of Scientific Research
at the British Museum. Her scientific expertise includes the
identification and interpretation of organics such as fibres,
wood, charcoal, macro plant remains, shell, ivory and bone
from around the world in all time periods. She specialises in
scanning electron microscopy and optical microscopy.
Amongst her recent publications is the Invited Review ‘The
principles, procedures and pitfalls in identifying
archaeological and historical wood samples’ published in
Annals of Botany.

Christina M. Duffy is the British Library’s Imaging
Scientist on the Conservation Science and Research team.
She graduated with a degree in Physics with Astronomy
from Dublin City University in 2007 before achieving a PhD
from Imperial College London on Meteoritics and Planetary
Science in 2011. She specialises in digital microscopy,
multispectral imaging and image processing techniques.
Recent major projects have included recovery of faded text
from Magna Carta and a CT analysis of the St Cuthbert
Gospel binding.

Clarence Eng 翁纯全 is a Research Associate in the
Department of Art and Archaeology at the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
His former career with Royal Dutch Shell included senior
positions in Europe, South Asia and China. More recently,
he has pursued academic interests in architectural history
alongside broader enquiries into cultural and technological
transmission across Central and East Asia. His recent book
Colours and Contrast: Ceramic Traditions in Chinese Architecture
extends earlier PhD research and he is a contributing author
to The Phoenix Mosque and the Persians of Medieval Hangzhou, due
for publication in 2016.

Craig Clunas is Professor in the History of Art
Department at the University of Oxford. He has published
extensively on the art history and culture of China,
especially the Ming period (1368–1644). His books include
Art in China (1997, second edition 2009), Superfluous Things:
Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China (1991),
Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China (1996),

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