Prof. Zhao Feng is Dean of the School of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University (formerly Dean of Textile Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University). Founding Director of China National Silk Museum, he served as Deputy Director (1991-2010), Director (2010-2022), and is now Honorary Director (since 2022). He earned his MA at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (1984) and PhD from Donghua University (1997). His international fellowships include research at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1997-1998), the Royal Ontario Museum (1999), and the British Museum (2006). He established the Chinese Center for Textile Identification and Conservation (2000), founded the International Association for the Study of Silk Road Textiles (2015), and initiated Silk Road Week and Biennale of Natural Dyes (2019). Elected to ICOM&s Executive Board (2022), he also serves on CIETA board (Lyon), as Vice President of Chinese Museum Association, and holds the UNESCO Chair on Silk Roads Heritage at Zhejiang University. Dr.

Su Miao is Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University&s College of Textile Science and Engineering (International Institute of Silk). She serves as Executive Deputy Director of both the Silk Culture Research and Heritage Center of Chinese Cultural Promotion Society, Hangzhou, and the International Center for Silk and Silk Road Studies at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University. Her research focuses on silk craftsmanship transmission, textile and costume art history and theory, and textile intangible cultural heritage with digital applications. She has conducted visiting research at the Danish Centre for Textile Research and the Royal Armory in Sweden. Prof. Su leads sub-projects for major national initiatives including the National Key R&D Program, and has presided over projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Education Social Science Fund, and provincial/municipal agencies. Her publications include five scholarly books, four edited exhibition catalogues, and over forty Chinese/English academic papers. Dr.

Rao Ping is a Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Foreign Language Studies, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the Institute of Linguistics (now Institute of Language Sciences) at Shanghai International Studies University in 2013. She conducted visiting research at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Australia, in 2009, and at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Florida, USA, in 2016. Her research interests include contrastive linguistics, semantics, and translation studies. She has a particular interest in the comparative study of Chinese culture and the cultures of English-speaking countries. In recent years, she has been actively engaged in the international dissemination of Chinese culture, with a special focus on ancient Chinese silk art.