Editorial Team

• Bifei Cao  PhD｜Professor, Guangdong University of Technology, PRC. Research Interests: Contemporary Jewelry and Metalwork; Fashion and Accessory Design and Production; Woodworking, Craft Studies. He is deeply rooted in the study of traditional Chinese culture, drawing innovative inspiration for design practice from traditional craftsmanship, lifestyles, localized knowledge, regional economies, and cultural resources. Through in-depth research into traditional techniques—such as wooden mortise-and-tenon structures, jade burial suits sewn with gold thread, and bamboo weaving—he reinterprets and reconstructs tacit technical knowledge, traditional visual culture, and personal lived experience. By integrating inheritance and innovation with contemporary design strategies, he has pioneered a new paradigm in the international field of contemporary jewelry design that organically combines multicultural perspectives with localized practice.
  His individual works have achieved a “grand slam” across the three most important competitions in the field of contemporary jewelry, making him the first Chinese artist to do so. These include winning the top honor, the “Artist Award,” from Art Jewelry Forum receiving First Prize in the Educational Talent Award from the Society of North American Goldsmiths, and being selected for the Schmuck special exhibition in Germany. 
• Huiwen Wang  PhD｜Professor, Guangzhou University, PRC. Research Interests: Design theory, Arts and Crafts, Design Innovation Leader of the discipline of the Hundred People Plan of Guangzhou University; Distinguished professor and Phd supervisor of Jingdezhen Ceramic University; Postdoctor of Nanjing University of the Arts, Visiting scholar of The Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, Project review expert of China National Arts Fund; Project review expert of National Social Science Fund of China. He has rich experience and a series of achievements in academic research, discipline construction, and social services.

• Liang Zhu Ph.D.,｜Associate Professor, Tianshi College, PRC. His theoretical research is based on the principles of original culture and original philosophy, using folk life, folk art, and folk architecture as materials to systematically study the generation of Chinese original culture and original philosophy, and to explore the significance and role of the universal group concept in contemporary Chinese culture. He has published nearly forty papers, reviews, and surveys in many core art journals in China.

Committee Members

• Chu Xiao Qing Ph.D., Researcher at Nanjing Museum, PRC.
• Delong Liu Ph.D.,｜Professor, School of Arts, Nanjing University, PRC. Research Interests: Chinese painting and calligraphy creation and theory; Ancient artifacts; Art education. Member of the China Artists Association; Member of the China Literature and Art Critics Association.
• He Hong Associate Professor, Central Federation of Industry and Art, PRC. Associate Professor of the China Academy of Art, Vice Chairman of the Central Federation of Industry and Art, expert of intangible Cultural Heritage Teachers Bank of the Ministry of Culture.
• JISEO KIM Ph.D.,｜Lecturer, College of Art and Design, Beijing University of Technology, Korea. Member of the South Korea Lacquer Art Association, Member of the Creative People in Florence Association， Italy, Member of the F-Utili Gioielli per Emergency, Italy.

• Mitamura Ariyoshi Ph.D.,｜Associate Professor, Kyoto University of the Arts, Japan. Graduate School of Arts and Studies, Kyoto University of the Arts. He is the tenth generation in a line of Edo maki-e artists (lacquer artists who specialize in sprinkled gold techniques), so he was exposed to lacquer from a very young age. His family had him ingest the raw resin from an early age to develop immunity, and he began creating works of engraved lacquer (chinkin) while still in primary school. After graduating from a Japanese high school, he studied in China at the Tsinghua University Academy of Arts & Design, where he focused on metal works, ceramics, and Chinese language and crafts history. After obtaining his doctorate, he taught lacquer history in China until 2018, when he returned to Japan to focus on his career as an artist. Since then, he made many smaller and larger-sized lacquer sculptures in the ‘dry lacquer’ technique and exhibited at several contemporary crafts exhibitions, including Nitten (Japan Fine Arts Exhibition), for which he received several awards. Whilst making his own works, he continues to do research and contribute to international exchange.