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Endorsements' Quotes

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Her reflections on the past led to scholarly work and publications that shed new light on processes and practices of the past and relate them to the present. This constant interplay between the twin poles of creative and academic work at an exceedingly high level particularly distinguishes her.

 

- Citation for awarding Kai-Yin Lo as "World's Leading Chinese Designer”, 2007

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…… your books are so very impressive - the way you look at art, design, and life in a holistic fashion is very special and that you do it with a historical understanding and true connoisseurship makes you rare indeed.

- Jan Stuart, Keeper of Asia, the British Museum, 2011

Classical and Vernacular Chinese Furniture in the Living Environment

(1998) in English and Chinese
Published with the Asian Civilization Museum, Singapore, which exhibited a selection of the Kai-Yin Lo Collection ,1996 - 1998.
The first book to examine the meaning and role of Chinese furniture in the context of architecture and the living environment

Forward by : Wang Shixang, Tian Jiaqing
Essays by : Puay-peng Ho, Curtis Evarts, John Kwang-Ming Ang, Chen Zengbi,
Wang Qijun
Editors : Kai-Yin Lo and Catherine Maudsley

Bright as Silver, White as Snow

Chinese White Ceramics from Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty
(1998) in English and Chinese

The book focuses not only on the aesthetic and developmental aspects of white ceramics, but also the social and economic background that had engendered their flowering
Published with Denver Art Museum, USA , 1998

Essays by : Regina Krahl, Li Zhiyan, Roderick Whitefield, Soren Edgren
Editor : Kai-Yin Lo
Associate Editors : Harold Kar Leung Mok, Catherine Maudsley

Living Heritage - Vernacular Environment in China

(1999) in English and Chinese

Catalogue of Exhibition held at City Hall, Hong Kong, June 26-July 6, 2000 and at China Institute, New York, January 24-June 10, 2001
A pathfinding account with beautiful illustrations on living patterns in five regions of vernacular China

Essays by : Ronald G Knapp, Kai-Yin Lo, Puay-peng Ho
Edited by : Kai-Yin Lo and Puay-peng Ho

House Home Family - Living and Being Chinese

(2005) in English
Selected by the Association of Museum Curators, USA, in 2010 as one of the “15 Great Books for Understanding China" alongside classics by Jonathan Spence, Craig Clunas, Maxwell Hearn ......
Published by University of Hawaii Press, USA, 2005

Preface by : Wen Fong
Essay: Ronald G Knapp, Kai-Yin Lo, Puay-peng Ho, Nancy Shatman Steinhardt, Joseph C.Wang, Cary Y. Liu, Nancy Berliner, Nancy Jervis, Myron L.Cohen,Francesca Bray, David Faure, James A.Flath, Maggie Bickford,Yunxiang Yan
Edited by : Ronald G Kapp and Kai-Yin Lo (Eng. ed)

House Home Family - Living and Being Chinese

(2011) in Chinese
2 volumes

Preface by : Wen Fong
Essay: Ronald G Knapp, Kai-Yin Lo, Puay-peng Ho, Nancy Shatman Steinhardt, Joseph C.Wang, Cary Y. Liu, Nancy Berliner, Nancy Jervis, Myron L.Cohen,Francesca Bray, David Faure, James A.Flath, Maggie Bickford,Yunxiang Yan
Published by New Star Press, Beijing, China, 2012
Edited by : Ronald G Kapp and Kai-Yin Lo (Eng. ed)

Hong Kong: Creative Ecologies - The Shaping of a Design Culture

(2010) in English and Chinese

Official exhibition of Hong Kong Design at Shanghai Expo (May-Oct, 2010) and at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum (Feb-May 2010), featuring 39 designers
Essays by : Victor K. Fung, Lung Ying Tai, Kai-Yin Lo, Chan Koo Chung, John Heskett

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