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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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