Stories of China Lecture: Dunhuang and the Palace Museum: The Fruits of Exchange and Mutual Learning among Cultures

Speaker: Dr Wang Xudong (Director, The Palace Museum)
Moderator of Q&A Session: Professor Han Xiaorong (Head, Department of Chinese History and Culture, PolyU)
Presented by: Hong Kong Palace Museum
Co-organised by: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Language: Putonghua, no subtitles are available

Biography of Speaker

Dr Wang Xudong served consecutively as the Deputy Director, Executive Deputy Director and Director of the Dunhuang Academy. He is now a Party Member of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Director of the Palace Museum. Dr Wang’s work focuses primarily on the conservation of caves, ancient mural paintings, and earthen sites, as well as research into monitoring and early warning systems and the preventive conservation of cultural heritage. He has presided over sixty conservation projects at nationally protected key cultural heritage sites, published more than thirty academic papers and six monographs as primary author, and has been granted numerous titles and technology awards.

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