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of Inscriptions and Belles - Lettres ) , " The Bhagavadgîtâ
illustrated by Indian painting " ( Éditions Diane de Selliers ,
2016 ) and " Leyli et Majnûn de Jâmi illustré par les
miniatures d ' Orient " ( Éditions Diane de Selliers , 2021 ) .
Huei - chung Tsao
China Collection
A graduate of the National Taiwan University and the
École du Louvre , Huei - chung Tsao has been a
researcher in the China section at the Musée Guimet
since 1990 . She is also the scientif ic director of the
Masterpieces of the Grandidier collection of Chinese
ceramics ( 2000 pieces ) website put online in 2004 by
RMN - GP in collaboration with the Musée Guimet . She
has curated numerous exhibitions on China at the
Musée Guimet : Treasures of Ancient China , ritual
bronzes from the Meiyintang collection ( 2012 ) ;
Splendours of the Han ( 2014 ) ; Jade , from emperors to
Art Deco ( 2016 ) ; A Firmament of Porcelain ( 2019 ) ; Tang
China ( 2024 ) and Abroad : Emperor Kangxi and the Sun
King Louis XIV , National Palace Museum , Taipei , 2011 ;
West encounters East , Shanghai Museum , 2021 ; and
contributed to the corresponding catalogues . In
addition , she has contributed to a dozen books in
French and Chinese , including L ' art de la Chine , revised
and expanded edition , Mazenod , Paris , 1997 ; From the
forgotten deserts , centuries of dazzling Dunhuang Art ,
Taipei , 2005 ; Carnets de route , 1906 - 1908 : Paul Pelliot ,
Paris , 2008 ; The Forbidden City at the Louvre , Paris ,
2011 ; Sublimes matières , Paris , 2014 ; Chinese Porcelain
from the Santos Palace ( Art Book Prize , 2022 ) , Paris ,
2021 , co - directed with Claire Déléry ; Glaze and Glory ,
Shanghai , 2022 .
Valérie Zaleski
Collections of Buddhist art
from China and Central Asia
and Chinese painting
A graduate of the École du Louvre and a doctor in art
history Paris Sorbonne Valérie Zaleski is a specialist
in Chinese and Central Asian Buddhist art She is
curator of the collections of Chinese painting and
Buddhist art at the Musée Guimet and has curated
several exhibitions including Tajikistan in the Land of
Golden Rivers 2021 Musée Guimet T ang Haywen a
Chinese Painter in Paris 1927 1991 2024 Musée
Guimet Kazakhstan Treasures of the Great Steppe
The Silk Roads 2024 Draguignan She is also an
associate researcher at the CRCAO and a member of
CREOPS Sorbonne University and author of articles
on Buddhist art in China Tajikistan and Thailand
Thierry Zéphir
Himalayan World
Collection
Thierry Zéphir is a research engineer at the Musée
National des Arts Asiatiques - Guimet in Paris , where he
has worked since 1986 . He is also a lecturer at the
École du Louvre where he teaches the arts of India and
the countries of the Indianized world . He has
participated in the training of students at the Faculty
of Archaeology in Phnom Penh and regularly
contributes to the courses given by the SOAS ( School
of Oriental and African Studies ) in London . He is the
author of various books and scientif ic articles , including
L ' Art de l ' Asie du Sud - Est ( Citadelles et Mazenod )
( 1994 ) , L ' Empire des rois khmers ( 1997 ) , L ' art khmer
dans les collections du musée Guimet ( 2008 ) . He has
also curated several exhibitions devoted to the arts of
India and Southeast Asia , both in France and abroad ,
such as Royal Bronzes of Angkor , an Art of the Divine
( 2025 ) ; Asian Medicine ( 2023 ) ; Buddha – The Golden
Legend ( 2019 ) ; Angkor , birth of a myth - Louis Delaporte
and Cambodia ( 2013 ) ; Dvaravati - The Sources of
Buddhism in Thailand ( 2009 ) ; The Golden Age of
Classical India – The Gupta Empire ( 2007 ) ; Champa Art
Treasures – The Sculpture of Vietnam ( 2005 ) ; Angkor
and Ten Centuries of Khmer Art ( 1997 ) .
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