LI Jun, Chair Professor, Head of the Department of Arts and Design, University of Macau. He was dean and professor of art history of the School of Humanities, Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Paris I, the French National Institute of Cultural Heritage, the Department of History of Art and Architecture of Harvard University, a visiting professor at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and the University of Bologna, Italy.His other publications in recent years include The Picture of Tilling and Weaving and the World: A Renaissance on the Silk Road (2025) ,Wen(Texture) and Wen(Text): A Trans-media History of Art (2025), Picture as Knowledge: A Transcultural History of Maps（2025）,A Visible History of Art: From Church to Museum (2016), Can We Read Art Like This? (Ed. 2018), Annals of Transcultural History of Art, Volume I: A Story Told in Two Ways (Ed. 2019) and Annals of Transcultural History of Art, Volume II: How Was the “Europe” Made?（Ed. 2021）,Volume.III: Images of Ancient History (ED.2022), Volume.IV: Towards the Art of Art History (ED.2023),Volume.V: Raising the “Banner of Peace” (ED.2024) Prof. Li worked as curators for four large exhibitions: “Finding a Homeland at the End of the World: The Transcultural Exchanges and Interactions Between China and Italy from the 13th Century to the 16th Century” (Museum of Hunan Province, 2018) ,“Embracing the Orient and Occident: When Silk Road Meets the Renaissance” (National Museum of China, 2018), With the Sunshine, Across the Sea: From French Impressionism to Landscape Paintings of Macau（University of Macau Art Museum,2024）and Winds of Confluence: The Story of Macao in the Historical Archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (University of Macau Art Museum,2025)
