Dr Tianlong Jiao received his BA from Peking University in 1987 and PhD from Harvard University in 2003. Prior to his appointment at the Hong Kong Palace Museum, he was the Curator of Asian Art at the Denver Art Museum, the Head and Curator of Chinese Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Chief Curator of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, and Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at the Bishop Museum. He also served as faculty or as a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, Xiamen University, Chinese University of Science and Technology, and Shandong University. His research specialty is early Chinese art and archaeology.
Dr Jiao has curated many international traveling exhibitions in collaboration with major museums, including the Palace Museum. He has also conducted archaeological projects in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Hawaii, and Honduras. He is the author or co-author of seven books and more than ninety research papers in both Chinese and English. His book The Neolithic of Southeast China won the 2007 Philip and Eugenia Cho Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Asian Studies.
