Visual, Material and Textual Cultures of Food and Drink in China, 200 BCE-1900 CE

Dr Stacey Pierson is Reader in the History of Chinese Ceramics at SOAS University of London, President of the Oriental Ceramic Society and series editor for Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1550-1950. She previously served as Curator of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art at the University of London, which housed the world-renowned Percival David Collection of Chinese Ceramics. She has published widely on aspects of Chinese ceramics and the history of collecting and exhibitions, including Collectors, Collections and Museums: The Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain: 1560-1960 (2007), Chinese Ceramics: a Design History (2009) and “The Movement of Chinese Ceramics: Appropriation in Global History” in Journal of World History (2012). In 2013, she published From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain and, in 2017, Private Collecting, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Art History in London: the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1866-1950.