Mr Lyu Chenglong holds a number of significant positions at the Palace Museum, including Research Fellow, Member of the Academic Committee, Director of the Department of Antiquities, and Director of the Ceramics Research Institute. He received his education in the Engineering Department of the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, and later in the MA programme on Qing history jointly offered by the Renmin University and the Palace Museum. A leading expert in the identification, exhibition, and care of ancient ceramics, Lyu mainly researches ceramic technologies and the evolution of ceramic forms and decoration. He has published and edited over twenty books and authored more than one hundred scholarly papers and other articles. Lyu has also conducted field work at a few dozen kiln sites in China. He has served as speaker and visiting scholar in the United States, Germany, France, Turkey, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.
