‘Why have there been no great women forgers?’ public lecture by Winnie Wong, writer and theorist currently on the Faculty of UC Berkeley where her research is concerned with the history and present of artistic authorship, with a focus on interactions between China and the West, notions of true and fake, art and commodity, originality and imitation, and conceptual and manual labor. Currently Winnie Wong’s interest lies in women forgers, botanical illustrations, and unfinished encyclopedias. She sometimes inhabits the personae of fictional editors and is collecting their work in a book of conjectural histories, titled Typical Artists: Chinese Biographies of Western Geniuses.