Archaeology

Dr. Jiang is an Assistant Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology. He received both his M.A. and Ph.D. in archaeology from CASS. At HYI, his research focused on Ceremonial Ruins and Political Theatres of the Tang Capital. Through the study of ceremonial buildings, he hopes to understand ritual practices as a reflection of ancient ideology and religious belief.

Professor Chen is an accomplished anthropologist and archaeologist who has conducted significant fieldwork in southern Taiwan. She obtained her M.A. in anthropology from National Taiwan University, where she has returned to become an assistant professor. She received her Ph.D. in Archaeology from Arizona State University. She is interested in the study of ceramics, the subsistence system, settlement patterns, and socioeconomic organization.

Wei Qiaowei is a Ph.D. candidate at Shandong University. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Harbin University of Science and Technology, and his Master’s degree in administration from Shanghai University. Wei is currently working towards his doctoral degree in Archaeology. His research focuses on center-periphery relations from around 2000 B.C. to 500 B.C. in ancient China. He has analyzed archaeological records in the Shandong region to explore relationships among different social groups, in particular the connection between the central area and its periphery. He will conduct further research on this topic during his stay as a visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Qiaowei Wei has published two refereed articles on public archaeology in Chinese and one refereed article about center-periphery relations.

Eun Gyeng Yang graduated from Peking University with a Ph. D in Archeology in 2002. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Archeology, Pusan National University. Her research interests include Buddhist archeology during the Northern and Southern dynasties, in particular the relationship between Chinese Buddhist sculptures and temple sites and Korean ones. She has studied the Buddhist activities of ancient Koreans, which centered on temple caves, Buddha steles and grottoes in China. Her research focuses on the Northern Tower in Chaoyang, Liaoning province, the relationship between the Koguryo (高句麗) clay figures and the Chinese ones, the building history in Buddhist temple sites and restoration of Buddhist image enshrinement in Sangguongsong (上京城) of Balhae (渤海), the analysis of a figure of clay excavated at Jesoek temple site(帝釋寺址) - rubbish heap - in Baekje(百濟) and a wooden pagoda site. Professor Yang has published on Buddhist caves in the Sui dynasty and Buddhist sculpture in Shandong, China.

Wu Xiaohong is Professor at the School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, and a member of Chinese Archaeological Society and Chinese ICCOMOS, et al. She has been a principal researcher for the State Key Project “The Origins of Chinese Civilization and Early Development –Chronological Research between 3500BC-1500BC”. During her year as a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Dr. Wu worked on the project “Cultural Change in Ancient China –the tempo of transitions in the formative period”, in cooperation with Professors Ofer Bar-Yosef and Rowan Flad in the Department of Anthropolgy, Harvard University.

LÜ Hongliang (Ph.D., Sichuan University, China) is Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, Sichuan University. He has been a research assistant at the Center for Chinese Archaeology and Art, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2003-2006), and has actively participated in archaeological surveys and excavations in the highlands of western Sichuan, Tibet and Southeast Asia. His research is focused on the prehistory of southwest China, especially on Tibet. During his year at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Dr. Lu conducted research on “The Transition from the Neolithic to Bronze Age in the highlands of western Sichuan.”

Wang Minghui graduated from Jilin University and is now Associate Research Fellow in the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has conducted research at over 30 archaeological sites and collected data on over 20 groups of human skeletons.These collections and data are very valuable for research on the evolution, health status, dietary patterns, and genetic relationships of ancient Chinese people. His current work is on how to explain and understand the behavior and mentality of ancient people via the osteological research. His project this year will be on the Archaeology of Gender in the Neolithic and Bronze Age of North China.

Chen Pochan (Ph. D., Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles) is Professor in the anthropology department at National Taiwan University. Originally interested in the possible problems of the original of the Austronesian language family, I changed my interest to the salt industry and distribution from the Neolithic period (ca. 3500 B.C.) to the Han Dynasty in the Three Gorges area, China. My current research project is a surface survey project in the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan Province, China. This is an international cooperation project with Chengdu Archaeology Team, Peking University, Harvard University, University of Washington, St. Louis, and UCLA. Through this project, we hope to understand the emergence of complex societies from the Neolithic Baodun Culture to the Bronze Age Sanxingdui Culture in the Chengdu Plain.