Ancient Chinese Furniture Author Profile

Hu Desheng, professor-level experts, expert specialties: furniture, expert positions: the Palace Museum, researcher, China Heritage Society training department lectures experts, JianBoYiYuan collectibles appraisal committee members.

August 1975 graduated from the Department of History, Peking University, majoring in Chinese history, the same year into the Palace Museum in ancient furniture storage and research. Since 1986, has been at home and abroad in some newspapers, magazines, published more than thirty papers and articles specializing in classical furniture. Some of them were reproduced in full by "Xinhua Digest", published several monographs, and invited by universities and cultural organizations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanxi, Shandong, Tianjin, Beijing and other regions to hold lectures on classical furniture.

Participated in the "Palace Museum Heritage Dictionary" furniture part, in the "Palace Museum Heritage Treasures anthology", "Ming furniture volume and Qing furniture" in the editorial work as deputy editor. Chief editor of the national collection of cultural relics classification dictionary of the Ming and Qing dynasty furniture volume, and in the process, developed the Ming and Qing dynasty furniture classification standard rating scale. Also formulated the Fine List of Classification of High-grade Wood, which clarified the vague understanding of the society on the material of Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture over the years. It also combined the study of ancient furniture artifacts with traditional Chinese culture, pushing the research to a new level.

Now a research librarian of the Palace Museum, but also a member of the National Heritage Identification Committee, expert member of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics, Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics Appraisal Center experts, the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics training department, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Graduate School of the Central University of Minorities, Department of Ethnology Professor, the China Redwood Furniture, China Redwood Furniture Magazine, the special invitation of the art adviser.