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Caroline Bendix is an accredited freelance library conservator with 40 years’ experience, working for major national conservation bodies, (many on a continuing consultancy basis), cathedrals, churches, synagogues, learned societies and institutions, museums, historic houses, private collections, universities, municipal collections, schools, the Government, Historic Royal Palaces and independent libraries. (information taken from Bendix Library Conservation website: https://bendixlibraryconservation.com/about-caroline/).

Jane McAusland is a conservator and restorer of art on paper. She has had her own private practice, now based in Suffolk, since 1970. With others, she founded the Institute of Paper Conservation in 1976. In 1977 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to do further study in the USA. Over the next two years she worked on the collection of HM the Queen in Windsor Castle, particularly on the Holbein drawings. She is a Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation (IIC) and was a member of the Council. She has worked on private collections internationally and for museums both large and small as well as dealers and advises the London auction houses. (Information taken from the Anna Plowden website: https://www.annaplowdentrust.org.uk/about/trustees.)

Paul Eugène Pelliot was a French sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tibetan Empire-era manuscripts and Chinese texts at the Sachu printing centre storage caves (Dunhuang), known as the Dunhuang manuscripts.

Iside Carbone holds a PhD from the Department of Anthropology, UCL. Her research interests focus on Chinese art and material culture in particular, and on museum ethnography as well as anthropology of art in general. Initiator of the project, Asia Collections Network (ACN), she is also co-founder and director of the non-profit association, Asia Collections Network – Europe (ACN – Europe). Iside is member of EACS (European Association for Chinese Studies), EAAA (European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology) and ACHS (Association of Critical Heritage Studies).