Alice Yu Cheng is a postdoctoral researcher in Chinese art and archaeology, affiliated with the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, Switzerland. She is also the chief editor and author of the forthcoming catalogue on the Chinese bronzes in the Museum Rietberg. Alice was born in Taipei, but grew up in Hong Kong and received her higher education in the U.S. and the U.K. She studied art history at The University of Chicago as an undergrad. She received her D.Phil. in archaeology in 2019 from The University of Oxford. She specializes in the Bronze Age period of ancient China. In her dissertation, she explores how a social identity, in particular the “Zhou identity,” was formed during the early Western Zhou dynasty. She examines a wide range of excavated materials including bronze ritual vessels, bronze weapons and ceramics. Nonetheless, she is interested not only in the art of the ancient times, but also in modern art. Her M.A. thesis attempts to decipher the paintings and drawings of Sanyu, a Chinese artist who migrated to Paris to study and make art in the 1920s. Alice is based in Zurich. One of her current projects is to publish her research on the Chinese bronzes in the Museum Rietberg in the format of an academic catalogue. She also conducts interdisciplinary collaborations with scholars from the West and China on the bronzes.