Estelle Nikles van Osselt is a sinologist. She studied Asian arts and archaeology at universities in Geneva, London, and Beijing. Today an assistant curator at the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art, she previously worked for the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing. Pascale Lepeu is the curator of the Cartier Collection. Song Haiyang is a researcher at the Palace Museum of the Forbidden City, Beijing.