Academic profile

Zhao Guifang, female, born in 1947, graduated from the Department of Chemistry (Polymer Science) at Nankai University in 1975. She formerly served as a Senior Research Fellow at the China Academy of Cultural Heritage and has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Research and Conservation Center for Unearthed Texts, Tsinghua University since 2008. Her primary research focuses on the conservation and study of unearthed bamboo, wooden, and lacquer artifacts.

Since 1975, she has specialized in cultural relics conservation, particularly in dehydration and restoration of unearthed slips, including conservation projects for the Zhangjiashan Han Slips (Hubei), Shuihudi Qin Slips (Yunmeng), and Datong County (Qinghai) Wooden Slips. She led the conservation and restoration of the large-scale state gift Dragon Carriage of the Sultan of Brunei for the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum, led the restoration and reshaping of the Yuan Dynasty polychrome wooden coffin bed excavated in Xiangyuan, Shanxi, and led preliminary dehydration trials for the Zoumalou Three Kingdoms Wu Slips (Changsha, Hunan). She also led the rescue and preventive conservation of the Tsinghua Bamboo Manuscripts, coordinated the re-conservation after four decades of the water-saturated Han slips from Yinqueshan (Shandong Museum collection), and assisted in emergency conservation of water-saturated Chu slips held by Anhui University. Additionally, she conducted exchanges on slip conservation at the Cultural Relics Conservation and Restoration Institute of the China Academy of Cultural Heritage and lectured in multiple training workshops on unearthed documents research and conservation co-organized by the China Academy of Cultural Heritage and Shandong Museum.