Hong Kong Palace Museum | HKPM Opening Exhibition Talk Series: Tradition and Innovation: New Perspectives on the Palace Museum and the Hong Kong Palace Museum (Session 2)

Ren Wanping

Deputy Director, Palace Museum

Ren Wanping is Deputy Director and Lead Curator of the Palace Museum, Beijing. A leading expert on the political system, rituals, and customs of the Qing dynasty, Ren has served as a member of the National Qing Dynasty History Compilation Committee and Vice Chair of the Chinese Museums Association. Her scholarly contributions have been recognized nationally. Ren is a special guest on the primetime TV programme National Treasure on China Central Television. She has curated a number of major special exhibitions, including “Dragon and Phoenix: Qing Imperial Weddings”, “The Qing Imperial Birthday Celebrations (1644–1911)”, “Celebrating the Lunar New Year inside the Forbidden City”, and the recent exhibition on architecture “Everlasting Splendour: Six Centuries at the Forbidden City”. She has published numerous monographs and journal articles, and lectured at museums and universities to promote public understanding of Chinese traditional culture.

Daisy Yiyou Wang

Deputy Director, Hong Kong Palace Museum  

Dr Daisy Yiyou Wang leads the Hong Kong Palace Museum’s curation, research, exhibition planning and management, conservation and collection, publication, design, and learning projects. Under the leadership of Dr. Louis Ng and Dr. Wang, the Museum has collaborated with the Palace Museum to ensure the timely and successful delivery of nine high-quality opening exhibitions. A specialist of the history of collecting, Ming lacquer, and Qing imperial portraiture and textile, Dr. Wang has published internationally and received numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities grant and a Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award. Dr. Wang co-curated the ground-breaking exhibition Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, which was named the “Most Influential International Exhibition from Chinese Museums” in 2019.