The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Art Museum

Prof. Josh YiuDirectorB.A.(The University of Chicago), D.Phil.(University of Oxford)jyiu@cuhk.edu.hk39435517
Research Interests:Archaistic vessels for devotional purpose; Twentieth-century Chinese painting; Qing material culture; History of collecting; Museum management; Art and technology
Research Projects:
  • Lui Shou-kwan and the modern ink movement(Ongoing)
  • Chinese artduring WWII (Ongoing)
  • Digitizing the Sheng Xuanhuai Archive(3/2014 to present)
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Dr. Raymond TangDeputy DirectorB.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (CUHK)manleungtang@cuhk.edu.hk3943 5518
Research Interests:Chinese paintings and calligraphy from the Ming and Qing dynasties; 20th century Chinese paintings; contemporary Chinese art; Guangdong paintings and calligraphy; Hong Kong art history; and museology
Research Projects:
  • The History of Commercial and Professional Photography in Hong Kong from the 1960s to the 2010s Research), collaboration with Hong Kong Institute of Professional Photographers Limited, organised by Hong Kong Heritage Museum (2023-2024)
  • Research on Seal Collection of the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware and Seal Carving in Lingnan), organised by Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware (2017-2018)
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Dr. Ho Pik Ki, PeggyResearch FellowB.S.Sc., M.Phil.(CUHK), Ph.D. (National Taiwan University), Member of the Xiling Seal Engraver's Societypeggyho@cuhk.edu.hk39437408
Research Interests:Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Studies of Chinese Rubbings, Literati Culture of the Qing Dynasty and Guangdong
Research Projects:
  • Nomination for the Seventh Batch of National Catalogue of Precious Ancient Books (2024)
  • Research on Rubbings Donated by Bei Shan Tang (2024-2027)
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Dr. Chan Kwun Nam, PhilAssociate Curator (Painting and Calligraphy)B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (CUHK)philchan03@cuhk.edu.hk 39437409
Research Interests:The Ming, Qing and Modern Chinese calligraphy and painting, including the relation between Chinese poem and painting, and the history of connoisseurship and collecting
Research Projects:
  • Principal Investigator, "Studies of Chinese Letters in the Collection of the Princeton University Art Museum, and Art Museum, CUHK", Princeton University Art Museum, and Art Museum, CUHK, 2019 to present.
  • Co-investigator, "The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Painting", sponsored by the Bei Shan Tang Foundation, Art Museum, CUHK, 2015-2019.
  • Co-investigator, "Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, an online catalogue of the Seattle Art Museum", sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Foundation, Seattle Art Museum, 2011-2013.
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Dr. Wang Guanyu, SamanthaAssociate Curator (Antiquities)B.A., M.Phil. (Peking University), Ph.D. (CUHK)gywang@cuhk.edu.hk39435534
Research Interests:History of Chinese ceramics; Maritime trade ceramics; Transnational history of material culture and the early modern globalization
Research Projects:
  • The Ming Court and the World Beyond: Production, Circulation and Consumption of Dragon Porcelain from the 15th to the Early 17th Centuries (Co-I, GRF project, 2025-28)
  • Chinese Trade Porcelains in the Art Museum Collection (2019- )
  • Ming Princes and Porcelain: The Porcelain Production and Consumption of Princely Households in the Ming Dynasty (Co-I, GRF project, 2018-23)
  • Newly Discovered Imperial Porcelains from the Zhengtong, Jingtai and Tianshun Reigns of Ming (2017-19)
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Dr. Tong Yu, SamAssociate CuratorB.A. (Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art), M.A.(HKUST), Ph.D.(CUHK)samyutong@cuhk.edu.hk39439532
Research Interests:Chinese painting and calligraphy, iconography, history of art collecting, material culture, art techniques, gold and silver
Research Projects:
  • Ancient Chinese Gold Techniques; collaborate with the conservation office of LCSD and Chow Tai Fook master studio; Phase I(2016 to 2018), Phase II(2019 to 2023), Phase III (TBC).
  • Anthony Cheung's collection of Qianlong's court art.
  • Art collecting in late Qing China, with focuses of bureaucrat and merchant collectors like Yan Shiqing(1868-1928) and Sheng Xuanhuai(1844-1916).
  • Museum collections study.
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Dr Chou Ying-ching, JoycePostdoctoral FellowB.A. and M.Phil. (National Taiwan University), DPhil (University of Oxford) yingchingchou@cuhk.edu.hk39437387
Research Interests:The Qing imperial art; the culture of Chinese collections; History of Chinese paintings; the exchange between East Asia and the West in early modern period
Research Projects:
  • Canton trade and export art (ongoing)
  • Canton enamels (ongoing)
  • The Qianlong Emperor's collection (2015-2020)
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Mr. Lung Tak Chun, LouisAssistant CuratorB.A., M.Phil. (CUHK) louis.lung@cuhk.edu.hk3943 6245
Research Interests:Calligraphy and Paintings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Ming-dynasty letters and literati circles, the visual culture of rubbings through the Song to Qing dynasties, Chinese archaic bronzes and inscriptions in catalogues
Research Projects:
  • Study of Shang and Zhou Bronzes (2011–13, 2015–2017)
  • Study of the Wong Family's collection and the Xiaohuafang Studio (From 2022)
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