Prof. PENG Peng

B.A., M.A., (Peking University,Beijing, China), M.A., PhD (Princeton University, New Jersey, USA)

pengpeng@cuhk.edu.hk

3943 0554

Room 207, Leung Kau Kui Building

Office hour (by appointment) : Every Wednesday 1400-1500 (fixed for 2022-23 Term1 and may vary in the future semesters)

Introduction

Dr. Peng holds a PhD and an MA from Princeton University, an MA and a BA from Peking University. Before joining The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dr. Peng taught at Pace University (2017) and The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2018-2019).

Dr. Peng’s research centers on the art, archaeology, visual and material cultures of ancient East Asia. His first book, Metalworking in Bronze Age China: The Lost-Wax Process (Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2020) is well received in the academic world. He is now working on his second book, Bronze Casting in Early China (manuscript in progress, under contract with Amsterdam University Press), in addition to several other research projects.

Research Interests

East Asian Art History, Chinese Visual and Material Cultures, Chinese Archaeology, Early Chinese Metalworking and Metallurgy, Artistic Exchange between China and Inner Asia, and Interdisciplinary Research on Cultural Heritage

Courses Taught

Fall Term (2022-23):
CUMT 2001 Chinese Archaeology and Food Culture
CUMT 3009 Interpreting Chinese Antiquities

Spring Term (2022-23):
CUMT 1002 Cultural Theories
CUMT 4004 Archaeology and Modern Applications

Publications

Books

Forthcoming	Bronze Casting in Early China (Book manuscript in progress, under contract with Amsterdam University Press).
2020	Metalworking in Bronze Age China: The Lost-Wax Process. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2020 (for reviews and more information, see http://www.cambriapress.com/cambriapress.cfm?template=5&bid=741).

Journal Articles

2021	“Decentralizing the Origin of Civilization: Early Archaeological Efforts in China and Relevant Historical Discourses,” History of Humanities (The University of Chicago Press Journals), Fall 2021, pp. 515-548.
2018	“Was Lost-wax Casting Adopted in Pre-Qin Chinese Bronze Art?” Orientations, January/ February 2018, pp. 103-111.
2017	“A Study on the Origin of Chinese Lost-wax Casting from the Perspectives of Art, Technology, and Social Agency.” Sino-Platonic Papers, edited by Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania (United States), Jan 2017 (Number 265), pp. 1-48.
2015	30-Second Ancient China. Lewes: Ivy Press. Book contributor with two entries: “Oracle Bone Inscriptions,” pp. 116-17, and “Bronze Inscriptions,” 2015, pp. 118-19.
2012	“Lubei Laizhouwan Yanan Shangzhou Shiqi Zhiyan Gongyi Chutan” 魯北萊州灣沿岸商周時期制鹽藝初探 (A Preliminary Exploration on the Salt-producing Craft in the Region around Laizhou Bay in the Northern Shandong Province). Nanfang Wenwu 南方文物 (Relic From South), edited by Jiangxi Provincial Museum and Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (Nanchang, China), 2012 (1): 53-58.
2012	“Shilun Jindong Diqu de Nongye Qiyuan” 試論近東地區的農業起源——以植物的栽培和馴化為中心 (On the Origins of Agriculture in the Near East: Cultivation and Domestication of Plants). Sichuan Wenwu 四川文物 (Sichuan Antiquity), edited by Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau (Chengdu, China), 2012 (3): 37-47.
2011	Peng Peng and Jang Ah Reum “Shuishuxiansheng he ‘Guishi’: Shuizu Shehui zhong Liangzhong Shenfen de Bijiao” 水書先生”和”鬼師”—-水族社會中兩種身份的比較 (Shui-scripture Master and Exorcist Master: a Comparison of Two Identities in the Society of Shui nationality). Zhongguo Renleixue Pinglun 中國人類學評論 (Chinese Review of Anthropology), edited by Beijing Central University for Nationalities of Ethnology and Anthropology (Beijing, China), Volume 19 (2011): 157-171. (First Author)
2011	“Muzang Dengji Fenxi zhong Yizhong Lianghua Fangfa de Sikao: yi Dadianzi MudiWeili” 墓葬等級分析中壹種量化方法的思考——以大甸子墓地為例(Considerations on a Quantitative Method forMortuary Analysis by the Example of the Dadianzi Cemetery). Bianjiang Kaogu Yanjiu 邊疆考古研究 (Research of China’s Frontier Archaeology), edited by Research Center of Chinese Frontier Archaeology in Jilin University (Changchun, China), Volume 10 (2011): 54-72.
2011	“Guanyu Chifeng Quyu Kaogu Diaocha zhong ‘Xiaocaijidian’ Xingzhi de yige Sikao” 關於赤峰區域考古調查中“小采集點”性質的壹個思考 (Considerations on the Nature of the Small Collections in the Regional Archaeological Survey of Chifeng), Xibu Kaogu 西部考古, edited by Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Research Center of the Northwest University (Xi’an, China), Volume 5 (2011): 141-156.
2008	“Faguo Kaogu Manyi” 法國考古漫憶 (A Memory about the Excavation in France). Zhongguo Wenwubao 中國文物報 (China Cultural Relics News), edited by Chinese State Cultural Relics Bureau (Beijing, China), January 4th 2008.

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

2022	“Rethinking the 5,000-yr-old Tin Bronze in Xinjiang, China: An Early Metal Anomaly related to ‘Afanasievo’?” Panel F15-02 (The Beaker Age. Exploring the Third Millennium BC spread of shared cultural identity in Eurasia), WAC-9 (World Archaeological Congress), Prague, Czech Republic. (July 2022)
2022	“Cast for Novelty: An Alternative Way of Metalworking in Early China.” Panel Making bronze: manufacturing techniques in the ancient Asia (I). The Tenth International Conference on the Beginnings of the Use of Metals and Alloys. Bangkok, Thailand. (July 2022)
2022	“On the Origins of Copper-based Metallurgy and Iron Smelting in China: A Comparative Perspective.” Session 24 (Metallurgy) in the 9th Worldwide Conference, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea. (July 2022)
2022	“The Monument of Time – From Antiquity to Artistic Creation” 時間的紀念碑——從古物到藝術創作, hosted by 言本當代 am space, Art Dialogue with Zhou Jin (Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts, CUHK) and Chu Lok Ting, Natalie (Artist): https://www.facebook.com/events/335425201665820/ (Feb 2022)
2021	“On the Inception of Copper-based Metallurgy in China and Its Inspirations to Our Understanding of Early Chinese Iron Smelting.” Session 7: Ancient Iron in Europe and China, Second International Conference on Global Issues of Environment & Culture, Sino-Hellenic Academic Project, Delphi (Greece). (Sept 2021)
2021	“Early Chinese Investment Casting in Comparative Perspective: Metallurgical Evidence from the Pre-Han China and Its Cultural Frontiers.” Invited Talk for the RPCAA (Research Programme for Chinese Archaeology and Art) Lecture Series 5, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (Jun 2021)
2021	“Perspectives on Technology, Design, and Provenance: The Investment Casting in Bronze Age China.” Invited Talk for the Workshop Series of Art History (organized by Dept. of Fine Arts and the Art Museum), The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (Mar 2021)
2020	“The Lost-wax Casting Re-examined: Archaeometallurgical Evidence from Early China and Its Borderlands.” Invited Talk for the Special Seminar, Dept. of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (Oct 2020)
2020	“Theory and Practice as One: An Innovative Scheme of Teaching Chinese Art and Material Culture.” Talk for CUHK Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2019/20, organized by CLEAR, ITSC and ELITE, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (Jul 2020)
2020	“Research in Art, Culture, and Heritage: Project Design, Development, and Logic Foundations.” CUMT Research Training Workshop Talk, Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (Jul 2020)
2018	“The Lost Wax Casting in Bronze Age China: Art and Technology” Art History Faculty Symposium, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. (Apr 2018)
2017	“On the Origin of Landscape Representation in Chinese Art.” The Campus-wide “Princeton Research Day,” Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. (May 2017)
2017	“Interaction between Art and Technique: Early Chinese Bronzes Reviewed.” CAA (College Art Association) 105th Annual Conference, New York, USA. (Feb 2017)
2016	“Max Loehr and His Contribution to the Study of Chinese Bronzes and Paintings.” Conference “The Making of the Humanities V” organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. (Oct 2016)
2016	“Rediscovering Bronze Art and Technology of Early China from Mayer Collection.” Seventh Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology, Boston, USA. (Jun 2016)
2016	“Art in the Making: A Case Study in the Technical Art History of Ancient China.” The Campus-wide “Princeton Research Day,” Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. (May 2016)
2016	“Disjuncture in Style and Technique: A Group of Chinese Bronzes Revisited.” Art History Graduate Symposium “Dislocation, Disjuncture, Dispute.” Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. (Apr 2016)
2016	“Writing the History of Chinese Bronzes in the Perspectives of Art, Technology, and Social Agency.” Graduate History Conference “Putting History to Work”, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA, USA (Mar 2016)
2014	“Rethinking Lost-wax Casting in Bronze Age China.” Invited Talk for the Special Joint Seminar, Depts. of Materials Science and Engineering, Art, Architecture,and Design, Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA. (Apr 2014)
2013	“Was the Lost-wax Casting practiced in the Bronze Age China? ——A Case Study of the Rim Openwork Appendage of the Bronze zun-pan Set in the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng” in the 78th Annual Conference of SAA (Society of American Archaeology) at Honolulu. (Apr 2013)
2009	Speaker, Invited Talk on the comparative Research on Shuishuxiansheng 水書先生 and Guishi 鬼師 in the Society of Shui Nationality. Dept. of History, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. (Oct 2009)

Academic Interviews

2017	“Di Yuzhou Jiaoshou Fangtanlu” 狄宇宙教授訪談錄 (Interview of Prof. Nicolas Di Cosmo). Interviewed by Peng Peng, Cao Dazhi and Cao Yecheng. Nanfang Wenwu南方文物(Relic From South), edited by Jiangxi Provincial Museum and Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (Nanchang, China), 2017 (1): 40-45.
2014	“Aoliwei Jiaoshou Fangtanlu” 奧利維教授訪談錄 (Interview of Prof. Laurent Olivier). Interviewed by Peng Peng. Nanfang Wenwu南方文物 (Relic From South), edited by Jiangxi Provincial Museum and Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (Nanchang, China), 2014 (4): 14-18.

Translations

2017	Lothar von Falkenhausen: Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC), Chapters 1-3 translated by Peng Peng, Shanghai: Shanghai Guji Press, 2017. (From English to Chinese)
2010	Matin Hees. “Prehistoric Salt Production in Southwest Germany”, translated by Peng Peng, in Zhongguo Yanye Kaogu 中國鹽業考古 (Salt Archaeology in China), Volume 2, edited by Shuicheng Li and Lothar von Falkenhausen, Beijing: Science Press, 2010: 218-237. (From English to Chinese)
2010	Laurent Olivier. “The ‘Briquetage de la Seille’ (Moselle, France): An Iron-Age Proto-Industrial Salt-Extraction Center,” translated by Peng Peng, in Zhongguo Yanye Kaogu 中國鹽業考古 (Salt Archaeology in China), Volume 2, edited by Shuicheng Li and Lothar von Falkenhausen, Beijing: Science Press, 2010: 238-259. (From English to Chinese)
2008	Laurent Olivier & Joseph Kovacik. “The ‘Briquetage de la Seille’ (Lorraine, France): Proto-industrial salt production in the European Iron Age,” translated by Zhang Ying and Peng Peng, Nanfang Wenwu 南方文物 (Relic From South), edited by Jiangxi Provincial Museum and Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (Nanchang, China), 2008 (1). (From English to Chinese)

Esteem Items

2021-2022	Principal Investigator, CUHK Direct Grant for Research (Project Title: “Reexamining the ‘Circum-Yellow Sea Cross-cultural Sphere’: Metallurgical Interactions between Korean Peninsula, Japanese Archipelago, and Early China”), Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (12 months, 97,500 HKD, Reference no. 4051178)
2021	Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award 2020, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2021-2022	Principal Investigator, RGC Early Career Scheme (Project Title: “Early Chinese Investment Casting in Comparative Perspective: Craft Production, Consumption, and Patronage”) (24 months, 557,000 HKD, Reference no. 24609620)
2020-2021	Direct Grant for Research (Project Title: “Rethinking the ‘Crescent-shaped Cultural-Communication Belt’: Archeometallurgical Evidences from Early Chinese Frontiers”), Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (12 months, 80,550 HKD, Reference no. 4051155).
2017-2018	Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Doctoral/Dissertation Fellowship
2016	The NCHA (National Committee of the History of Art) Award
2015	SPEARS Research Fund, Princeton University
2015	Dissertation Research Fund, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
2013	Award, Hokkaido International Foundation (Japan)
2010	Peking University Founder Scholarship ．Outstanding academic performance in the Grade of 2008 Graduate Students, School of Archaeology and Museology (Academic year 2009-2010)
2008	Égide Scholarship (France) ．For excavation and research in the archaeological site Marsal, Lorraine, Franc
2005-2007	Peking University President Research Fund ．For research project “Porcelains of Yuan Dynasty Unearthed in the Archaeological Site Jininglu 集甯路, Inner Mongolia”