Fletcher Coleman is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and a specialist on the religious arts and art historiography of China, whose research and curatorial projects span the medieval through early modern periods.

Yukio Lippit is Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Lippit’s research and teaching interests center around Japanese painting of the medieval (1200–1600) and early modern eras (1600–1868), as well as the history of Japanese architecture.