Ms Teng Shu-p’ing is the former Chief Curator of the Department of Antiquities, Palace Museum, Taipei. She attained her master’s degree in history from Taiwan University while working as an assistant to the celebrated archaeologist, Dr Li Ji, at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. She began her career at the Palace Museum, Taipei in 1974 and was appointed the Chief Curator of the Department of Antiquities in 2007. She retired from Palace Museum, Taipei in 2013 and joined Peking University as a visiting scholar in 2017. Teng has published prolifically in the areas of ancient Chinese jades and prehistoric art, including over ten books, two hundred research papers and articles. Her key works include Neolithic Jades in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Taipei, 1999 Collectors’ Exhibition of Archaic Chinese Jades, Exquisite Beauty: Islamic Jades, New Interpretations of Ancient Jades: Essays on Prehistoric Chinese Jades, and The Wisdom and Ignorance of Emperor Qianlong: Perceptions on Ancient Jade as Viewed Through His Poems. She is now in the process of publishing the second volume of the Select Jades in the Palace Museum, Taipei series, the first volume of which was published in 2019.
