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London. Previously, she was Project Curator of the (2004), Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China (16
exhibition Ming: 50 years that changed China at the British volumes, acting chief editor, 2008).
Museum, and Assistant Professor in the Department of
Visual Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. She Sally K. Church is Affiliated Researcher in Chinese
completed her DPhil in the History of Art at the University Studies in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,
of Oxford. Her first book The Empress and the Heavenly Masters: University of Cambridge. She completed her PhD in
A Study of the Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang (1493) was Chinese literature at Harvard University. Her research
published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press in focuses especially on the maritime expeditions of Zheng He
2015. (1405–33), the history of Chinese ships during the Ming
period and earlier and Chinese diplomatic history during
Maggie Chui Ki Wan 尹翠琪 is Associate Professor in the the Ming. Her recent publications include Zheng He and the
Department of Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Afro-Asian World (co-edited with Chia Lin Sien, 2012), and
Kong. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford. articles on Ming ships and shipyards in Nanjing. She is an
Her research focuses on the history of Chinese ceramics, Associate Editor for the Medieval History Journal.
Daoist art as well as art and religion in late imperial China.
Her publications include Jiajing Emperor and His Auspicious Sarah Schneewind is Associate Professor in the
Words (2008), Image and Efficacy: The Frontispieces to the Wanli Department of History at the University of California, San
Emperor’s Yushu jing (2015) and Daoist Scripture Frontispieces and Diego. She completed her PhD at Columbia University. Her
their Archetypes (2016). She is currently working on a book on publications include Community Schools and the State in Ming
Daoist prints of the Ming dynasty. China (2006) and A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in
Ming China (2006). She has also edited a collection of essays
Marsha Haufler is Professor of Art History in the Kress by 21 scholars entitled Long Live the Emperor! The Uses of the
Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Ming Founder across Six Centuries of East Asian History (2008).
Kansas. She completed her PhD in art history at the Her current project is on pre-mortem enshrinement. She has
University of California, Berkeley. Her research has focused been President of the Society for Ming Studies.
on Mongol patronage in Yuan China, Chinese women
artists, Buddhism in the aesthetic life of later imperial China Shih Ching-fei 施靜菲 is Associate Professor at the
and Tibeto-Chinese art. Her publications include the edited Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan
volumes Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese University. She was previously Assistant Curator in the
and Japanese Painting (1990) and Cultural Intersections in Later Department of Antiquities at the National Palace Museum,
Chinese Buddhism (2001), and the exhibition catalogues Views Taipei. She completed her DPhil in Oriental Studies at the
from Jade Terrace: Chinese Women Artists 1300–1912 (1988) University of Oxford. Her research focuses on artistic
and Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism 850–1850 exchanges between East Asia and Europe, and the history of
(1994) and a range of articles on later Buddhist art in China. decorative arts in East Asia. Shih’s publications include
Radiant Luminance: Painted Enamelware from the Qing Court
Peter Ditmanson is a Senior Research Fellow at (2012).
Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He specialises in
Chinese cultural intellectual history and Chinese traditional Tansen Sen is Professor in the Department of History at
historiography. He has written articles on Ming political Baruch College, City University of New York. He completed
culture and the historiography of the Yongle emperor’s his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. He specialises in
usurpation of the throne in 1402. Asian history and religions and has special scholarly
interests in Buddhism, India-China relations, Indian Ocean
Priscilla Soucek is John L. Loeb Professor in the History trade and Silk Road archeology. His publications include
of Art in the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian
She completed her PhD at New York University. Her Relations, 600–1400 (2003) and Traditional China in Asian and
research interests focus on Persian and Arabic manuscripts, World History (co-authored with Victor H. Mair, 2012).
portraiture and the history of collecting. Her publications
include Content and Context of Visual Arts in the Islamic World Timothy Brook is Republic of China Chair at the
(with Richard Ettinghausen, 1988) and Masterpieces from the Department of History and Institute of Asian Research at
Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art the University of British Columbia. He has published widely,
(co-authored, 2011). especially on the social and cultural history of the Ming
dynasty. His more recent books include The Chinese State in
Qin Dashu 秦大樹 is Professor in the School of Ming Society (2005), Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the
Archaeology and Museology at Peking University. He Dawn of the Global World (2008), The Troubled Empire: China in
completed his PhD at Peking University and post-doctoral the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (2010) and Mr Selden’s Map of China:
research at the Smithsonian Institution. His research The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea (2014).
interests focus on Song to Ming dynasties archaeology and
ceramics archaeology. His publications include The Arts of Yin Ji’nan 尹吉男 is Professor and Chair of the History of
Stone and Fire: Chinese Ceramics (1996),The Cizhou Kiln Site at Art department, and Dean of the Humanities Faculty at the
Guantai (1997) and The Archaeology of Song-Yuan-Ming Dynasties Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. He is an art

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