Alexandra Green is Henry Ginsburg Curator for Southeast Asia and Curator of the exhibition Myanmar in the world at the British Museum. She has written and edited numerous books and articles on Southeast Asian art and culture, including: Raffles in Southeast Asia (Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore), Buddhist Visual Cultures, Rhetoric and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings (Hong Kong University Press), Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives (Hong Kong University Press), Eclectic Collecting: Art from Burma in the Denison Museum (NUS Press), and Southeast Asia: a history in objects (forthcoming: Thames & Hudson in collaboration with the British Museum).