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

中國故事講座:敦煌與故宮——不同文化交流互鑒的結晶

主講者：王旭東博士（故宮博物院院長）

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)

Date: 11 December 2023 (Monday) 
Time: 5.30 pm – 7 pm
Venue: Jockey Club Auditorium, PolyU
Language: Putonghua, no subtitles are available

Presented by: Hong Kong Palace Museum
Co-organised by: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Moderator of Q&A Session: Professor Han Xiaorong (Head, Department of Chinese History and Culture, PolyU)

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Biography of Speaker:

王旭東博士歷任敦煌研究院副院長，敦煌研究院黨委書記、常務副院長，敦煌研究院院長、黨委書記。現任文化和旅遊部黨組成員、故宮博物院院長。主要從事石窟、古代壁畫和土遺址的保護，以及文化遺產監測預警與預防性保護等方面的研究。曾主持和完成全國重點文物保護單位保護維修工程六十餘項，並以第一作者發表學術論文三十餘篇、專著六部，獲得多項科技獎項及榮譽稱號。

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.