Li Feng (; born 1962), or Feng Li, is a professor of Early Chinese History and Archaeology at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, where he is director of graduate studies for the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture. He received his MA in 1986 from the Institute of Archaeology,

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, and his Ph.D. in 2000 from the

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. He also did Ph.D. work in the

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(1991). He is both a field archaeologist and an historian of Early China with primary interest in

bronze inscriptions Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, are writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes such as ''zhōng'' bells and '' dǐng'' tripodal cauldrons from the Shang dynasty (2nd mi ...

of the

Shang The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty founded by Tang of Shang (Cheng Tang) that ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and ...

- Zhou period. Li founded the Columbia Early China Seminar in 2002, and directed Columbia's first archaeological field project in China, in the

Shandong Peninsula The Shandong (Shantung) Peninsula or Jiaodong (Chiaotung) Peninsula is a peninsula in Shandong Province in eastern China, between the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south. The latter name refers to the east and Jiaozhou. Geo ...

, in 2006–2011. When sinologist

Cho-yun Hsu Cho-yun Hsu (born Sep 3, 1930) is a historian born in Xiamen, China, of Wuxi ancestry. His family moved to Taiwan after the Chinese Communist Revolution. He graduated from National Taiwan University (B.A.) and University of Chicago (Ph.D.) and ...

's ''Western Chou Civilization'' (1988) was reprinted in Chinese in 2012, Hsu invited Li Feng to write a chapter-length postscript to update the book with new discoveries made in the intervening decades. In his preface, Hsu praised Li's expertise in both field archaeology and traditional history, and expressed his hope that Li would one day write a new history of the Zhou (Chou) dynasty to supersede his work.

Selected publications

* ''Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045-771 BC'' Cambridge University Press, 2006. *''Bureaucracy and the State in Early China: Governing the Western Zhou'' Cambridge University Press, 2008. *''Writing and Literacy in Early China'' (co-edited with David Branner); UW Press, 2011. WorldCat book entry
/ref> *''Early China: A Social and Cultural History'' Cambridge University Press, 2013. * Guicheng: A Study of the Formation of States on the Jiaodong Peninsula in Late Bronze-Age China, 1000-500 BCE.

References

External links

Li Feng's works
(PDF downloads) on academic.edu {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Feng 1962 births Living people University of Chicago alumni University of Tokyo alumni Columbia University faculty American sinologists Chinese emigrants to the United States People's Republic of China historians Chinese archaeologists American archaeologists Chinese Academy of Social Sciences alumni 21st-century Chinese historians Chinese expatriates in Japan Chinese epigraphers