Professor Oliver Moore

Oliver Moore is Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He has taught at Fudan University, Shanghai, and was a visiting scholar at Beijing University. He was a visiting professor to Kyoto University and taught Art and Material Culture of China at Leiden University. A former Assistant Keeper in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum, he has been a part-time China curator at the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden. His research focuses on early and modern art history in China and his most recent book is Photography in China: Science, commerce and communication (Routledge, 2022).