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Hiromi Kinoshita is Exhibition Assistant for the First Emperor exhibition and a catalogue contributor. She was co-curator of the Royal Academy exhibition, China: The Three Emperors (1662–1722) held in 2005–6. A graduate of Wellesley College, Mass., she gained a PhD at Oxford University researching the hybrid burial practices of the Liao Khitan (907–1125).
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