CV
Date and place of birth
August 13th, 1961, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China
Academic degrees :
Bachelor 1982, Zhejiang Institute of Silk Engineering (present day Zhejiang University of Science and Technology)
Master 1984, Zhejiang Institute of Silk Engineering (present day Zhejiang University of Science and Technology)
PhD 1997, China Textile University (present day Donghua University)
Academic appointments :
Director of China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou
Director of Advisory Committee for Key Scientific Research Base of Textile Conservation of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH)
Director of International Research Centre for the Silk Roads and Dialogue
Professor for history of textiles and costume in Donghua University, Shanghai
Professor for silk engineering in Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou
Member of Ethics Committee of International Council of Museums (ETHICOM)
Council Member of International Centre for the Study of Ancient Textiles (CIETA)
President of International Association for the Study of Silk Road Textiles (IASSRT)
Vice President of International Alliance of Museums of the Silk Road Board (IAMS)
Vice President of International Silk Union (ISU).
Research interests :
Focused on the textiles and cultural exchange along the Silk Roads, with interdisciplinary research on history of technology and art, mainly based on real materials from the archaeological excavations and ethnographic investigations. As the director of China National Silk Museum, I also work on the conservation of ancient textiles, the inheritance and innovation of traditional crafts, and museum studies.
National and international awards :
1. The General History of Chinese Silk, editor in chief, First National Publication Award, 2007
2. Chinese Silks, editor in chief for the Chinese version, the R.L Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award for 2012
3. "Excavation and Presentation of Textile Weaving Technology Value in East Zhou Dynasty - A case study of excavated textiles", Pilot project of the Compass Program of China State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Second prize of the Cultural Relics Protection Science and Technology Innovation Award (ranked first), 2009
4. "Research and Application of Fragile Silk Fabric Graft Consolidation Technology Based on Silk Fibroin-Amino Acid",Program of China State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Second prize of the Cultural Relics Protection Science and Technology Innovation Award (ranked first), 2016
Research position :
The Sylvan and Pamela Coleman Fellowship by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1997-1998
The Veronika Gervers Memorial Fellowship by the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto in 1999
The grant from the British Academy and working on the textiles in Aurel Stein’s collection, British Museum, London, 2006
W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, Israel, 2017
Editorial Board Member :
Textile History, UK
Textiles Asia, HK
Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology, Beijing
Publications :
Books
2019
A World of Looms: Weaving Technology and Textile Art, Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou, 2019
A World of Silks: Collections of Global Silk Art (chief ed.,Chinese), Donghua University Press, Shanghai, 2019
2018
Chinese Silks and the Silk Road, Royal Collins Publisher, Quebec, 2018
Chinese Textile Archaeology and Scientific Research (First Editor, Chinese), Shanghai Science and Technology Press, Shanghai, 2018
The Ancient Chinese Silk Material Design Department(chief ed.,Chinese), Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou, 2018
2016
Silks from the Silk Road: Origin, Transmission and Exchange (chief ed.), Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou, 2016
2015
Early Chinese Textiles from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection, Cotsen Occasional Press, Los Angeles, 2015
Textiles from Dunhuang in Russian Collections (chief ed.), Donghua University Press, Shanghai, 2015
History of Chinese Ancient Material Culture·Textile Volume(First Editor, Chinese), Kaiming Press, Beijing, 2015
2014
Resist Dye on the Silk Road: Shibori, Clamp resist, and Ikat (chief ed. with Yoshiko Wada), Costume Squad, Hong Kong,
2014
Global Textiles Encounters (Second Editor), Oxbow Books, Oxford and Pennsylvania, 2014
Thousands of Thread and Hundreds of Patchwork:Conservation and Research on the Excavated Textiles from Mogao Grottoes at Dunhuang(First Editor, Chinese), ISAT/Costume Squad, Hong Kong, 2014
2013
Reflection of Time: Art of Fashion in China 1993-2012 (First Editor, Chinese), China Social Sciences Press, Beijing, 2013
Chinese silk art (First Editor, Chinese), China Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 2013
2012
Chinese Silks (Ed. for Chinese version), Yale University Press, London, 2012
Studies of Textile and Weaving Technology(7th-3rd centuries BCE) (First Editor, Chinese), Ancient Book Publisher, Shanghai, 2012
Chinese Silk and the Silk Road (Chinese), City University of Hong Kong Press, Hongkong, 2012
2011
Chinese Velvet(chief ed.,Chinese), Soochow University Press, Suzhou, 2011
2010
Textiles from Dunhuang in French Collections (chief ed. Chinese, English and French), Donghua University Press, Shanghai, 2010
Textile manufacture of Fergana in an Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of Republic of Uzbekistan of Samarkand, (English, Russian and Chinese, chief ed. with Bokijon Matbabaev), Ancient Book Publisher, Shanghai, 2010
2009
The Silk Road and Textiles from Dunhuang (First Editor, Chinese), Zhonghua Book Company, Beijing, 2009
2008
The Ancient Art of Silk Weaving and Dying (First Editor, Chinese), Cultural Relics Press, 2008
Western Imprints: Textiles from Han to Jin Dynasties in China (chief ed., Chinese/English), Hong Kong: ISAT/Costume Squad Ltd, 2008
2007
Textiles from Dunhuang in UK collections (chief ed.), Donghua University Press, Shanghai, 2007
2005
The General History of Chinese Silk (chief ed., Chinese with English abstracts and illustration captions), Soochow University Press, 2005
2004
Liao Silk and Costume (English and Chinese), Muwentang, Hong Kong, 2004
Silk Dress with Golden Threads: Costumes and Textiles from Liao and Yuan Periods (10th to 13th century), Style from the Steppes, Rossi & Rossi, London, 2004
2002
Recent Excavations of Textiles in China(chief ed., Chinese), ISAT/Costume Squad, Hong Kong, 2002
Textile Identification and Conservation(chief ed., Chinese),Cultural Relics Press, 2002
2001
Wang Xu & Textile Archaeology in China, (chief ed., Chinese), ISAT/Costume Squad, Hong Kong, 2001
2000
Legacy of the Desert King: Textiles and Treasures Excavated at Niya on the Silk Road (First author, Chinese/English), ISAT/Costume Squad Ltd, Hongkong, 2000
1999
Treasures in Silk, an Illustrated History of Chinese Textile Art (English and Chinese), ISAT/Costume Squad, Hong Kong, 1999
1992
A History of Chinese Silk (Author for chapter 4/5/6/7, Chinese), China Textile Industry Press, 1992
A History of Silk Art(Chinese), Zhejiang Art Academy Press, Hangzhou, 1992
Silk and Silk Road in Tang Dynasty(Chinese), San Qin Press, Xi’an, 1992
Archaeology in Sui and Tang Dynasties(Author for chapter 12, Chinese), Nanjing University Press, 1992
Articles
2017
The Earliest Evidence of Pattern Looms: Han Dynasty Tomb Models From Chengdu, China, Antiquity Volume 91, Issue 356 April 2017, pp. 360-374
Domestic, Wild or Unraveled? A Study on Tabby, Taquete and Jin with Spun Silk from Yingpan, Xinjiang, third-fourth centuries, Silk: Trade and Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity, Edited by Berit Hildebrandt with Carole Gillis, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2017, pp.95-103
2015
Imperial Yellow in the Sixth Century--A Preliminary Attempt to Reproduce Imperial Yellow Based on Instructions in the Qimin yaoshu. Color in Ancient and Medieval East Asia(First author), Spencer Museum of Art/The University of Kansas/Yale University Press, 2015:103-111
Dye analysis of two polychrome woven textiles from the Han and Tang Dynasties. Color in ancient and medieval East Asia(Second author), Spencer Museum of Art/The University of Kansas/Yale University Press, 2015,113-119
2014
Early Ming Women’s Silks and Garments from the Lake Tai Region, Orientations, 2014,45
2013
Reconciling Excavated Textiles with Contemporary Documentary Evidence: a Closer Look at the Finds from a Sixth-Century Tomb at Astana (First author, English), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Cambridge University Press, April 2013, 197-221
Glossary of Textile Terminology (Based on the Documents from Dunhuang and Turfan)(First author, English), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 23/Issue 2, April 2013, pp. 349-387
2012
The Silk from the Silk Road: Wild and Domestic, or Unraveled? A Study on Tabby, Taquete and Jin with Spun Silk from Yingpan, Xinjiang, 3-4th Centuries, Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity: The Silk Trade, Workshop at Harvard, 20-21 April 2012
2011
Liao Silk Textiles: the Elegant Lifestyle of the Kitan Royals (First author, English), Orientations, Jan/Feb 2011, 43-49
2010
Tang Samite with Winged-horses and Persian Samite Imitated by He Chou (Chinese), Cultural Relics, 2010 (3), 71-83，
2009
Textiles and Clothing Excavated from the Tombs of Buzak in Khotan (First author, English), Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology (3/2008), Brepols Publishers, 2009, 171-184
Textiles from Central Asia and Textiles in Central Asian Style in Dunhuang (First author, Chinese), Dunhuang Research, 2009 (4), 38-46
2008
Study on Two Brocaded Robes Unearthed in Ala’er Basin, Qinghai (Chinese), Cultural Relics, 2008(8), 66-73
2007
New studies on the textiles from Dunhuang, A Hundred Years of Dunhuang, 1907-2007, 17 May 2007, the British Museum
2006
Weaving Methods for Western-style Samit from the Silk Road in Northwestern China (English), in Central Asian Textiles and Their Contexts in the Early Middle Ages, Riggisberger Berichte, 9, Abegg-Stiftung, 2006, 189-210
Symbols of power and prestige: sun, moon, dragon and phoenix motifs on silk textiles, Power Dressing, Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore, 2006
2004
Jin, Taquete and Samite Silks: the Evolution of Textiles along the Silk Road, in China: Dawn of a Golden Age (200-750AD), New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2004, 33-39
Style from the Steppes: Silk Costumes and Textiles from the Liao and Yuan Periods 10th to 13th Centuries (English), London: Rosso & Rossi, 2004
Ancient Treasures: silk robes from the 6th century, Celestial Silks: Chinese Religious and Court Textiles, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004, pp.16-19
2003
Three textiles from Turfan, Orientations (Englsih), Hong Kong, Feb 2003, 25-31
2002
A Robe of Samite with Geese Holding Knots in Their Beaks (Chinese), Cultural Relics, 2002(4), 73-80
2001
Weaving, Dyeing and Embroidery of Liao Dynasty Silk from the White Pagoda (Chinese), Chinese Archaeology, 2001, Vol.1, 81-84
2000
The chronological development of needle looping embroidery(English), Orientations, Feb 2000, 44-53
1999
Satin samite: a bridge from samite to satin (Englsih), Bulletin de CIETA (Centre International d'Etude des Textiles Anciens), Lyon, no.76, 1999, 46-63
1998
Art of silk and art on silk in China (English), in China: 5,000 Years, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1998, 98-102
1997
Silk Roundels from the Sui to the Tang (English), HALI, May 1997, 81-85
Reconstruction of Axle-treadle Loom in Han Dynasty (English), Journal of China Textile University (Eng. ed.) Vol.14, No.4, 1997
1995
Foeign Divinities on the Brocade of the Wei and Tang Period (Chinese), Archaeology, 1995 (2), 179-183
1994
G-G Patterning Method of Silk Weaving in Earlier China (Chinese), Journal of China Textile University, 1994 (2), 1-10
1993
The Exchange Rate between Lian and the Money in Northwest China in Tang dynasty (Chinese), History Research, 1993 (6), 177-180
1992
The reconstruction of the loom excavated from Liang Zhu (Chinese), Southeast Culture, 1992 (2), 108-111
1988
The research of the Ancient Chinese plant dye: Rhamnus utilis Decne (Chinese), Agricultural History of China, 1988 (3),
77-82
1987
The Spread, Culture and application of Safflower in Ancient China (Chinese), Agricultural History of China, 1987 (3), 62-71
1986
Hand Scroll of Sericulture and Weaving: the edition and the reflection of the Sericulture and Weaving in Southern Song dynasty (Chinese), Agricultural History of China, 1986 (1), 345-359
1984
The Origins of Plant Dyes (Chinese), Journal of Silk, 1984 (3), 54-57
The Silk Dyes and Activator in Tang dynasty (Chinese), The Complication of China Textiles History, vol. 17, 1984, 69-77
1983
The Silk Patterns depicted in the Poems of Tang Dynasty (Chinese), Journal of Silk, 1983(8), 55-58
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