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Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (1997), Elegant Debts:   specialises in the musics and cultures of Southern Song
            The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470–1559 (2004), Empire of   (1127–1275), Ming (1368–1644) and modern China (1900 to
            Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China,   present). His most recent publications include: ‘Music and
            1368–1644 (2007) and Screen of Kings: Art and Royal Power in   Masculinities in Ming China’ (Asian Music, 2011) and Songdai
            Ming China (2013).                                 yinyueshi lunwenji: lilun yu miaoshu/Historical Studies on Song
                                                               Dynasty Music: Theories and Narratives (Shanghai: Shanghai
            David M. Robinson is Robert H. N. Ho Professor in   Conservatory of Music Press, 2012). Currently, he is working
            Asian Studies and Professor of History at Colgate   on a monograph entitled: Kunqu, the Classical Opera of
            University. His publications include the edited volume   Globalized China.
            Culture, Courtiers, and Competition: The Ming Court (1368–1644)
            (2008) and the authored books Bandits, Eunuchs, and the Son of   Karl Debreczeny is Senior Curator at the Rubin Museum
            Heaven (2001), Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols   of Art, New York. He completed his PhD in Art History at
            (2009), Martial Spectacles of the Ming Court (2013), and Seeking   the University of Chicago. His research interests focus on
            Order in A Tumultuous Age: The Writings of Chŏng Tojŏn (2016).   exchanges between Tibetan and Chinese painting
            His current book project, entitled Empire’s Shadow: The Ming   traditions, and has conducted field research in various
            Court in Eurasia, examines the Ming court’s engagement with   locations along the Sino-Tibetan border. His publications
            the legacy of the Mongol empire.                   include The Black Hat Eccentric: Artistic Visions of the Tenth
                                                               Karmapa (2012); and ‘Imperial Interest Made Manifest: sGa A
            Geoffrey Wade researches China–Southeast Asia      gnyan dam pa’s Mahākāla Protector Chapel of the Tre shod
            interactions and comparative historiography. He received   Maṇḍala Plain’ (2014). His current project explores the
            his PhD in History at the University of Hong Kong with a   intersection of religion, politics and art focusing on Tibetan
            thesis entitled ‘The Ming Shi-lu (Veritable Records of the   Buddhism’s role in the courts of North Asia from the 7th to
            Ming Dynasty) as a Source for Southeast Asian History,   19th centuries.
            14th to 17th Centuries’. His translations from the Ming
            shi-lu are online at: http://epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/. An edited   Kenneth M. Swope is Professor in the Department of
            volume Asian Expansions: The Historical Experiences of Polity   History at the University of Southern Mississippi. He
            Expansion in Asia was published in 2015.           completed his PhD from the University of Michigan. His
                                                               research interests encompass the military, social, political
            Helen Wang is Curator of East Asian Money in the   and diplomatic history of early modern East Asia. He is the
            Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum.   author of Warfare in China since 1600 (2005), A Dragon’s Head
            Her recent publications include Textiles as Money on the Silk   and a Serpent’s Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian
            Road (co-edited with Valerie Hansen, 2013). She has been   War, 1592–1598 (2009) and The Military Collapse of China’s Ming
            working closely with scientists Caroline Cartwright (British   Dynasty, 1618–1644 (2013). He is currently completing
            Museum) and Christina Duffy (British Library) looking   research for his new book on the Ming-Qing transition in
            down the microscope at Ming paper money in the British   Southwest China.
            Museum and British Library collections.
                                                               Lee Soomi 이수미 李秀美 is head of Fine Arts
            Jessica Harrison-Hall is Head of the China Section at   Department at the National Museum of Korea. She
            the British Museum and Curator of Chinese Ceramics and   completed her PhD in Art History at Seoul National
            the Sir Percival David Collection. She has curated the   University, focusing on ‘A Study on The City of Supreme
            permanent gallery for Chinese Ceramics and many    Peace Screen Painting’. In 2002, she was awarded the
            exhibitions including Ming: 50 years that changed China. Other   Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Fellowship and was
            publications include Ming Ceramics (2001 translated into   Visiting Curator in the Department of Asia at the British
            Chinese 2014), Chinese Ceramics (with Regina Krahl, 2009   Museum during 2012. Her publications include the
            translated into Chinese 2013), Passion for Porcelain (with L.   catalogues The Return of the Oegujanggak Uigwe from France:
            Mengoni, H. Young and A. Dawson, 2012) and Ming: Art,   Records of the State Rites of the Joseon Dynasty (co-authored, 2011)
            People and Places (2014).                          and Joseon Painters as Envoys to China (co-authored, 2011).

            Jonathan Hay is Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor at the   Lina Lin (林莉娜) is Associate Researcher in the
            Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He has written   Department of Painting and Calligraphy at the National
            widely on the visual and material culture of pre-modern   Palace Museum, Taipei, where she has been working since
            China, and on the theory and method of art history. His   1987. She completed her MA in Art History at the University
            major publications include Shitao: Painting and Modernity in   of Kansas. She has published widely on Chinese painting,
            Early Qing China (2001) and Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative   particularly from the imperial courts of the Ming and Qing
            Object in Early Modern China (2010).               dynasties, curated a special display on the Xuande Emperor of
                                                               the Ming and participated in major exhibitions on the Qing
            Joseph S.C. Lam 林萃青is Director of the Confucius    courts of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors. 
            Institute at the University of Michigan and Professor of
            Musicology, the School of Music, Theatre and Dance, the   Luk Yu-ping 陸於平  is Curator (Chinese Collections) at
            University of Michigan. A musicologist and sinologist, Lam   the Asia Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum,



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