Anke Hein is Associate Professor in Chinese Archaeology at the University of Oxford. She is an anthropological archaeologist focusing on issues of culture contact, human-environment interaction, ceramic technology, and the history and practice of archaeology as a discipline. She has extensive field research experience on the Chinese mainland, having worked on several international collaborative projects. She has published on the archaeology of western China in particular, mostly in leading peer-reviewed journals in English and Chinese. Book publications of hers include Graves as Composite Objects - The Burial Record of Prehistoric Liangshan, Southwest China and Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage. Julia Lovell is Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and History at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published widely on modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history, specifically on the links between different cultural forms and identity construction since the late 19th century. She was the academic partner for the 2023 British Museum exhibition China's Hidden Century, which told the history of China's long 19th century through material culture. She has also translated many works of Chinese fiction into English, most recently Journey to the West (Penguin Classics, 2021).