Li Feng | |
|---|---|
李峰 | |
| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) |
| Occupation(s) | Sinologist, archaeologist, historian, professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences University of Chicago University of Tokyo |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sinology, archaeology, history |
| Sub-discipline | Ancient Chinese history |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Main interests | Shang-Zhoubronze inscriptions |
Li Feng (Chinese:李峰;pinyin:Lǐ Fēng; born 1962), orFeng Li, is a professor of Early Chinese History and Archaeology atColumbia University, where he is director of graduate studies for the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture. He received his MA in 1986 from theInstitute of Archaeology,Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and his Ph.D. in 2000 from theUniversity of Chicago. He also did Ph.D. work in theUniversity of Tokyo (1991). He is both a field archaeologist and an historian of Early China with primary interest inbronze inscriptions of theShang-Zhou period. Li founded the Columbia Early China Seminar in 2002, and directed Columbia's first archaeological field project in China, in theShandong Peninsula, in 2006–2011.
When sinologistCho-yun Hsu'sWestern 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.[1]
