Cary Y. Liu is a specialist in Chinese architectural history and art history, he has MArch and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, and is a licensed architect. Recent exhibitions for which he has been curator include: The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection (1999); Seeing Double: Copies and Copying in the Arts of China (2001); Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines" (2005); and Providing for the Afterlife: "Brilliant Artifacts" from Shandong (2005). Among his publications are contributions to Art of the Sung and Yüan: Ritual, Ethnicity, and Style in Painting (1999), and to the journals Hong Kong University Museum Journal, Oriental Art, Orientations, and T'oung Pao. He also has published the essay "Chinese Architectural Aesthetics: Patterns of Living and Being between Past and Present," in House, Home, Family: Living and Being Chinese (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005), and was curator for the exhibition and catalogue Providing for the Afterlife: “Brilliant Artifacts" from Shandong (2005) at the China Institute in New York.