Baoping’s former appointments include Senior International Researcher, Director, Sotheby’s; Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, Univ. of Sydney; and ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane. He is a research associate, School of Archaeology, Univ. of Oxford; senior researcher and senior editor, Unicorn Publishing Group; and recently honorary senior research associate, IoA, UCL. He publishes widely, such as with Encyclopedia of China, and institutions including the Palace Museums in Beijing and Taipei, and the Freer/Sackler galleries in USA. He supervises translation into Chinese for database entries of the ceramics of the Sir Percival David collection, now displayed in the Sir Joseph Hotung Centre for Ceramic Studies at the British Museum (BM), and edits or translates books for the BM. As a consultant for the Oriental Ceramic Society, London, he contributes substantially to its work, including the exhibition/catalogue Collectors, Curators, Connoisseurs: A Century of the Oriental Ceramic Society. Baoping also edits or translates books for institutions such as the Needham Research Institute, Asian Civilisations Museum Singapore (the Tang Shipwreck of Belitung), China National Silk Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Museum etc. For pastime, Baoping enjoys gardening, jogging, travel, and writing traditional Chinese shici poems.