Hong Kong Palace Museum | HKPM Opening Exhibition Talk Series: Horse Culture and Art in Early China

Dr Tianlong Jiao

Head Curator of Hong Kong Palace Museum

Dr Tianlong Jiao received his B.A. from Peking University in 1987 and Ph. D. from Harvard University in 2003. Prior to his appointment at the Hong Kong Palace Museum, he was the Curator of Asian Art at the Denver Art Museum, the Head and Curator of Chinese Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Chief Curator of Hong Kong Maritime Museum, the Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Bishop Museum. He also served as faculty or visiting professors at University of Hawaii-Manoa, Xiamen University, Chinese University of Science and Technology and Shandong University. His research specialty is early Chinese art and archaeology. He has curated many international traveling exhibitions in collaboration with major museums worldwide, including the Palace Museum. He also conducted archaeological projects in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Hawaii and Honduras. He has authored/co-authored seven books and more than ninety research papers both in Chinese and in English. His book The Neolithic of Southeast China (Cambria Press 2007) was the winner of the 2007 Philip and Eugenia Cho Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Asian Studies.

Dr Ingrid Yeung

Associate Curator of Hong Kong Palace Museum

Dr Ingrid Yeung studied Korean and Japanese art history at SOAS before pursuing a doctorate in Chinese art and archaeology at Yale University. She began her curatorial career as assistant project coordinator for “Linking Parabolas in International Exchange—Colloquium on Curatorship” in Taiwan, later serving as a museum educator at the Vancouver Art Gallery and as a curatorial intern at the Yale University Art Gallery. In 2015, she joined the publishing office of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.