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Feng Li
Associate Professor
Columbia University
East Asian Lang-Cult
URL:
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Biography
Feng Li, associate professor (EALAC), received his M.A. from the
Institute
of
Archaeology
,
Chinese
Academy
of Social Sciences (1986); and his Ph.D. from the
University
of
Chicago
(2000). Professor Li is both a historian and an archaeologist specializing in early
China
. His recent publications include: Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045–771 BC (Cambridge 2006); “‘Offices’ in Bronze Inscriptions and Western Zhou Government Administration,” Early China 26 (2002); “Feudalism and Western Zhou China: A Criticism,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 63 (2003); and “Succession and Promotion: Elite Mobility during the Western Zhou,” Monumenta Serica 52 (2004). His new book Bureaucracy and the State in Early
China
: Governing the Western Zhou 1045–771 BC (
Cambridge
forthcoming) examines the political system of early Bronze-Age states. As an archaeologist, he is an expert of Chinese bronzes and is interested in cross-region cultural relations. He is the director of
Columbia
’s archaeological project in Shandong China, and serves also as co-chair of the Columbia Early China Seminar.
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