Li Gongming is Professor Emeritus at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, where he served as Head of the Department of Art History and Director of the Institute of Hong Kong and Taiwan Culture. His publications include An Outline of Chinese Art History, Guangdong Art History, and Poetry and Thought Drifting in the Wind. In recent years, his research has focused on modern Chinese art and politics, historical iconography, and the art history of the Cultural Revolution.

Pang Laikwan is Professor of Cultural Studies and Head of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research spans a broad spectrum of issues related to culture in modern and contemporary China and Hong Kong. Her central philosophical project is the exploration of the dynamics between ‘many’ and ‘one’, manifested in the intersections between culture and politics, copies and models, plurality and unity, as well as democracy and sovereignty.

Tina Pang is Curator of Hong Kong Visual Culture at M+. She is part of the museum’s founding curatorial team overseeing public programmes, exhibitions, and collections related to the visual culture of the city.

Alan Yeung is Associate Curator of Ink Art at M+. In addition to Canton Modern: Art and Visual Culture, 1900s–1970s (2025), he has curated or cocurated Dai Guangyu: And Thus Is This Land (2025), Yang Jiechang: Hundred Layers of Ink (2024), and Shanshui: Echoes and Signals (2024).