Jane PORTAL
British Museum (UK)
Worked as curator of Chinese and Korean Collections at the British Museum from 1987-2008. From 2008-14 she was the Matsutaro Shoriki Chair of Asia, Oceania and Africa at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In December 2014 she returned to the British Museum as Keeper of Asia.
Portal studied Chinese at Girton College Cambridge in 1974-78 and Korean at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies in 1992-96. She spent a year studying Chinese archaeology at the Beijing University in 1979-80 and a year at the Yonsei University Seoul in 1994-95.
Her publications include: Korea Art and Archaeology (2000); Art Under Control in North Korea (2005); Chinese Art in Detail (2006); First Emperor-China’s Terracotta Army (2007); and 100 Highlights of Korean Art in MFA Boston (2012).
