Publications
Monographs
Bound by Bronze: Ritual and Kingship in Western Zhou China. (In preparation.)
Journal Articles / Chapters
“Trees among Brambles: Fear, Legitimation, and Sacred Space in an Early Chinese Dream Manuscript.” (In preparation.)
“Spinning the Thread of Lord Yao: Orthopraxy and Succession Strategies in Warring States Manuscripts.” (In preparation.)
Translations (selected)
Joint Archaeological Team of Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, “The Western Zhou Cemetery at Dahekou in Yicheng County, Shanxi,” Chinese Archaeology 12 (2012), 1-12.
Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, “The Western Zhou City Site at Chenzhuang Village, Gaoqing County, Shandong,” Chinese Archaeology 11 (2011), 21-28.
Du Jinpeng, “A Typological Study of the Palace Buildings at Zhouyuan and Related Issues,” Chinese Archaeology 10 (2010), pp. 164-71.
Yuan Guangkuo and Hou Yi, “Relative Dating of Early Shang City Ruins Based on Rammed-Earth Building Techniques Employed in City Walls,” Chinese Archaeology 9 (2009), 178-182.
Zhao Huacheng, “The Evolutionary Path from the Shang-Zhou 'Centralized Royal Cemetery System' to the Qin-Han 'Independent Mausoleum System.'” Chinese Archaeology 2007, 113-118.
Xi'an Municipal Institute of Monument Preservation and Archaeology, “Report on the Excavation of the Western Han Dou Family Tomb (M3) in the Eastern Suburbs of Xi'an.” Chinese Archaeology 2006, 40-52.
Miscellaneous
“Appendix II: A list of bronze inscriptions cited in the book.” In Li Feng, Bureaucracy and the State in Early
China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Translation published as Xi Zhou de zhengti:
Zhongguo zaoqi de guanliao zhidu he guojia, Beijing: Sanlian, 2010.
Presentations
“Spinning the Thread of Lord Yao: Orthopraxy and Royal Succession Strategies in Warring States Chu Manuscripts.”
To be presented at the International Conference of the European Association for the Study of Chinese Manuscripts, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, July 11-13, 2014.
“Ritual Assemblies and the Geopolitics of Zhou Expansion.”
To be presented at the Early China Seminar of Columbia University, Mar. 22, 2014.
“Reading the ‘Ritual Revolution’”: An Inscriptional Approach to the History of Western Zhou Ritual.”
To be presented at the Second Annual Society for the Study of Early China Conference, Philadelphia, Mar. 27, 2014.
“Sloughing off the Shang: The Conflicted Zhou Legacy and Narratives of Early Chinese Ritual.”
Presented at the conference “Putative Purities: Transcultural Dimensions of Master Narratives in Religion.” Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University, Dec. 16-18, 2013.
“The Ritual Refiguration of the Zhou Kings.”
Invited lecture at the East Asia Seminar, University of Zurich, Dec. 13, 2012.
“The ‘Ethic of Presence’ and the Mediation of Royal Ritual: Towards a Theory of Inscribed Bronze Vessels, pt. 1.”
Presented at the conference “Things that Connect: Pathways of Materiality and Practice.” Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University, Oct. 10-12, 2012. Previously presented at the US TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) conference, SUNY Buffalo, May 17-20, 2012.
“Ritual Orientations: Embodied Space in Early China.”
Presented at the 2007 Graduate Student Conference in Archaeology at the Center for Archaeology,
Columbia University.
“Ritual Practices Reflected in Western Zhou Bronze Inscriptions: A Preliminary Study.”
Second Annual Graduate Student Conference on Chinese Paleography, University of Chicago.
