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Fellowship Project
Dr. Xu Zheng spent five months (September 2014 – January 2015) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the U.S.A. where she conducted research on the museum’s collection of Chinese sutra covers of the Ming Dynasty.
Biography
Dr. Xu Zheng is currently a research curator at the China National Silk Museum specialising in the collection, research and exhibition of ancient textiles.
Recent Development and Achievement
In recent years Dr. Xu Zheng has expanded her field of research beyond ancient textiles into modern silk history and the identification of unearthed silk cultural relics. She published the book “Textile Design in Modern China” in 2018 and won the second prize in the “Basic Theory Research Category” of the 12th Philosophy and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement of Zhejiang Province. Dr. Xu also curated the exhibition “Chinese Silk and the Silk Road”, which won the 14th Best Ten National Museum Exhibition Selections Award, and the exhibition “Life along the Silk Road: Little Story During the Great Era”, which won the 2019 Museum Exhibition Excellence Award of Zhejiang Province.
Selected Publication(s)
