Landscape and Power in Early China

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...

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.