Yuwei Zhou

My current research interest lies on the craft production system in late Shang China. I want to investigate how craft production reveals the elite activity and power relations of the site Yinxu and more generally, of other archaeological sites in China. I am also interested in the development of early Chinese writing, as reflected in the oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions. Coming from an undergraduate background of math and computer science, I am very enthusiastic about using computational methods to quantize and visualize the late Shang elite social network as represented in the distribution of clan emblems, which are preserved primarily on bronze vessels.