Qin Cao

Dr Qin Cao is Senior Curator of Chinese collections at National Museums Scotland. She specializes in Chinese Bronze Age archaeology and numismatics, and completed her DPhil on Chinese Shang dynasty weapons at the University of Oxford in collaboration with the British Museum (Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Awards). Qin has published widely and curated permanent displays and temporary exhibitions. Her current research interests include bronzes of the Shang and Zhou...See more

Dr Qin Cao is Senior Curator of Chinese collections at National Museums Scotland. She specializes in Chinese Bronze Age archaeology and numismatics, and completed her DPhil on Chinese Shang dynasty weapons at the University of Oxford in collaboration with the British Museum (Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Awards). Qin has published widely and curated permanent displays and temporary exhibitions. Her current research interests include bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and provenance studies of Chinese objects in museum collections through the lens of decolonization. See less