Hong Kong Palace Museum | Study Chinese Art with Experts: The Making of the Documentary Of Color and Ink | Chang Dai-chien in Hong Kong

Weimin Zhang

Professor, San Francisco State University, and Director, Of Color and Ink 

A tenured professor at the School of Cinema, San Francisco State University, a film director and cinematographer, and a multimedia designer, Weimin Zhang graduated from the Beijing Film Academy and Ohio University’s School of Film. As a director and cinematographer in China and the United States, she has created several award-winning films, including The Homebound Cranes, Grandpa Ge, and C.E.O., as well as the TV series The Opium War. As a documentary filmmaker, she has created The House of Spirit and The Last Days of Beijing Hutongs. She was also invited to participate, as a director of the US team, in the official documentary of the Chinese Olympics The Everlasting Flame: Beijing 2008, and as guest director of the documentary series Tea: Story of the Leaf, produced by China Central Television. Her multimedia project Nu Shu – The Secret Language of Women has been archived into the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

Yuen-kit Szeto

Former Chief Curator, Hong Kong Museum of Art  

Yuen-kit Szeto holds a BEd in art education, an MPhil in Chinese art history, and a diploma in museum studies. He was formerly a curator and subsequently chief curator at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, specialising in Chinese painting and calligraphy collections. His research mainly covers Chinese paintings in the Ming and Qing dynasties and in the twentieth century, as well as art education. During his time at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Szeto organised several major exhibitions of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy, as well as a series of exhibitions on twentieth-century masters. He has hosted a number of Chinese art appreciation programmes and documentaries on the radio and television. Also an Academic Committee Member of the Wu Guanzhong Art Research Center, Tsinghua University, a researcher of the Beijing Fine Art Academy, and a senior fellow of the J. S. Lee Memorial Fellowship Programme, Szeto has received a Medal of Honour from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for his contribution in promoting the art of ink painting and calligraphy.