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Eric Otto WEAR 華立強

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An historian and critic of art and design, Wear has worked with contemporary and historical Chinese material for twenty years, focusing on the creation of value and meaning. From 1989 to 2007 taught at the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, serving as Associate Head, leading the Master in Design programme, and founding the Innovation and Design Management concentration of the MBA of the Graduate School of Business. Worked with museums and galleries on exhibitions, and advised local authorities and developers in China and Taiwan on sustainable cultural preservation.

Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and Goldsmiths College, London; doctorate in art history from the University of Hong Kong. Advisor to Hong Kong's Academy of Art, Academic Advisor to the Asia Art Archive, corresponding member and representative in China of the Chambre Nationale des Experts Spécialisés en objets d’art et de collection (France), and member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). Since 1989, contributor to publications of Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong; Art Asia Pacific; and Asian museum catalogues.

 

Chuk-Kwan TING 丁竹筠

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WEN Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1559)
Landscape (dated 1508, details)
Ink and colour on gold flecked and mica paper
29.8 x 181 cm
Private collection

An independent investor and financial adviser, specializing in investment opportunities emerging from contemporary Chinese cultural rejuvenation, sometimes combined with real estate development. She was Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, and worked in the firm's Hong Kong office from 1998-2005, and prior to this, Vice President at JP Morgan in Hong Kong from 1993-1998. For nearly twenty years, she led equity research teams to cover Asian equity markets, with a focus on the real estate sector in Hong Kong and China as well as attention to manufacturing and retailing.

She was consistently top ranked by Institutional Investors (II) and Institutional Investors' Alpha, among others. She also led research teams to participate in large-scale IPO transactions, including Hong Kong’s two government privatizations: The Link REIT (US$ 3 billion global offering in 2004) and The Mass Transit Railway Corporation (US$ 1 billion global offering in 2000), among others. During her career as an investment analyst she focused on firstly, fundamental company analysis, paying particular attention to issuers’ financial performance and discipline, and secondly, emerging economic and governmental issues that provided context for opportunities and risks, focusing on Hong Kong's structural changes and integration with the Mainland, and China's evolution from public sector to private sector, and consequences of its interaction with the global economy.

Ting has a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Oxford, where she read Mathematics, and a post-graduate diploma in French Literature from the University of Sorbonne, Paris.

 

We are married, with three daughters. Now residing in Shanghai, we collect Classical literati art and objects as well as Chinese contemporary art.