Li Feng, or Feng Li, is a professor of Early Chinese History and Archaeology at Columbia University, where he is director of graduate studies for the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture.
Education
He received his Master of Arts in 1986 from the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 2000 from the University of Chicago. He also did Doctor of Philosophy work in the University of Tokyo (1991).
Career
He is both a field archaeologist and an historian of Early China with primary interest in bronze inscriptions of the Shang-Zhou period. Li founded the Columbia Early China Seminar in 2002, and directed Columbia’s first archaeological field project in China, in the Shandong Peninsula, in 2006-2011.