Hong Kong Palace Museum | HKPM Special Exhibition Talk Series | From Shijiahe to Sanxingdui: Fine Alcohol, Jade and Bronze

Dr Kin Sum Li, Sammy

Associate Professor
Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University

Kin Sum Li, Sammy is an associate professor in the Department of History at Hong Kong Baptist University. He received his PhD in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University in 2015. He obtained his BA in Translation and an MPhil in East Asian studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the history of mass production in the ancient world, seeking to combine modern scientific technology with ancient industrial art. He is currently working on articles and a book manuscript about the arts of ancient China, with plans to publish a book on bronze mirrors from the Warring States period. His work has appeared in journals such as T’oung Pao, Archives of Asian Art, Early China, Journal of Chinese History, and East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine.

Dr Shengyu Wang

Associate Curator
Hong Kong Palace Museum

Shengyu Wang received her DPhil in Archaeology from the University of Oxford and completed her undergraduate studies at the School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University. Prior to her current appointment as a curator at the Hong Kong Palace Museum, she was involved in exhibitions and catalogue projects at the Shanghai Museum and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. She has participated in archaeological excavations in both China and the UK. At the Hong Kong Palace Museum, she made curatorial contributions to the opening exhibition “Grand Gallop: Art and Culture of the Horse”. She is also a lead co-curator of various special exhibitions, including “Gazing at Sanxingdui: New Archaeological Discoveries in Sichuan” in September 2023, and Bank of China (Hong Kong) Presents: “The Origins of Chinese Civilisation”, which is on view from September 2024.