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Ambassador Huang Ping, the Consul General of China’s Consulate General in New York, visited Penn on Thursday, May 23, 2019. Ambassador Huang met with Penn Global leadership, toured the Weitzman School of Design’s Architectural Archives and the Penn Museum, and engaged in a roundtable discussion on U.S.-China relations with Penn faculty and other members of the Penn community.
Zhongjie Lin, Associate Professor, Weitzman School of Design, points out architectural features of Penn's campus to Ambassador Huang and his wife Zhang Aiping. Amy Gadsden, Executive Director for Penn Global, looks on, at left.
At left, William Whitaker, Curator of the Penn Weitzman School of Design Archives, shows the delegation archival holdings centered on documents relating to Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, both Penn graduates who were among 20th century China's most important architects.
The delegation made a stop at Penn's historic Franklin Field.
Ambassador Huang held a roundtable discussion on U.S.-China relations at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Center deputy director and Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law Jacques deLisle, second from left, moderated.
Julian Siggers, at center, the Williams Director of the Penn Museum, welcomes Ambassador Huang and Zhang Aiping to the Penn Museum. Adam Smith (striped tie), curator of the museum's Asian Section, and Stephen Tinney (blue jacket), curator of the museum's Babylonian Section, look on.
The group poses for a photo in the Penn Museum's Harrison Rotunda, which houses much of the museum's East Asian collection.
