Biography
Dewei SHEN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and History at the City University of Hong Kong. Before joining CityU, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. He received his PhD from Yale University, where he was also awarded the Marston Anderson Prize for Distinguished Dissertation (2021). With a broad research interest in Early China, he conducted multiple surveys of ancient city sites in the middle Yangtze River region during the past years, and participated in a series of excavations, including archaeological fieldwork at late Neolithic sites in North China and burial sites of the Xiongnu and Mongols in Eastern Mongolia.
Research Interests/Areas
- Chinese archaeology
- Material culture
- Social and cultural history of early China
- Jiandu manuscript studies
- Empire studies
Teaching
- Methods for Studying Humanities (Fall 2023)
- Archaeology and Civilization of Early China (Fall 2023)
- World Archaeology (Spring 2024)
- Early and Imperial China (Spring 2023)
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