Professional Service

Lecture Series Co-organizer (with Timothy Brook and Janine Andrews)

“Visualizing China’s Imperial Order (1500 – 1800)”, University of Alberta Museums (Edmonton, AB, Canada), 10/2015 – 07/2016

• This lecture series consists of four sessions, each containing 2-4 lectures plus a panel discussion / debate in public. Twelve leading scholars of late imperial Chinese history from over the world shared with the public their historical readings of individual items from the Mactaggart Art Collection.

Symposium Co-organizer (with Timothy Brook and Janine Andrews)

“Visualizing China’s Imperial Order in Eurasia (1500 – 1800)”, International symposium at the University of Alberta, July 19-21, 2016

• A symposium with a view of assessing Qing China’s order and power in Eurasian history by interpreting visual materials. Twelve scholars from over the world presented their studies partly based on individual items from the Mactaggart Art Collection.

Peer-Reviewing Articles for

Chinese Cultural Relics (Minneapolis, MN: East View Press. The English edition of the Beijing-based Chinese archaeology journal Wenwu 文物), 2015

Consultant and Appraiser of Chinese Bibliographical Documents

The University of British Columbia, Asian Library, and Rare Books & Special Collections (RBSC), 2012 – 2014

Senior Editor

People’s Publishing House and Oriental Press (Beijing, China), 1992 – 2002

Main responsibility was to edit manuscripts on Chinese history, archaeology, and fine arts.