"Nancy Berliner" is curator of Chinese art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and has curated exhibits of Chinese arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. She has lectured at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, the Asia Society of Houston, and the ChinaInstitute. She has written for the "New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Asian Art, " and" American Craft "magazines, and is the author of "Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Century", and "Chinese Folk Art."