Lecture Details
Date: Sunday, 14 June 2026, 9:30–12:00
Venue: Lecture Hall, First Floor, Zhejiang University Museum of Art and Archaeology
Organizer: Zhejiang University Museum of Art and Archaeology
Host: Jing Zhongwei — Vice Dean, School of Art and Archaeology; Deputy Director and Professor, Museum of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University
Speaker: Yang Zhefeng — Professor, School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University
About the Speaker
Yang Zhefeng joined the faculty of Peking University after completing his master’s degree there in 1990, rising from teaching assistant to lecturer, associate professor, and professor. In 2024 he was appointed a Boya Distinguished Professor for Teaching-Material Development at Peking University. He currently heads the Historical-Period Archaeology Section at the School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, and is a member of the Qin-Han Archaeology, Ancient Cities Archaeology, Mausoleum Archaeology, and Ceramics Archaeology committees of the Society for Chinese Archaeology. He also serves as a standing council member of the Society’s Eighth Council (from October 2023) and as deputy head of its Qin-Han Archaeology and Ancient Cities Archaeology committees.
His main research fields are the archaeology of the Han and Tang periods and ancient ceramics. His major works include Studies in Historical-Period Archaeology (Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 2023) and First Studies in Han–Tang Ceramic Archaeology (Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House, 2022).
About the Lecture
Following the social upheavals of the late Warring States period and the cultural consolidation that came with the Qin unification, the ceramic industry of southern China gradually took on a new regional pattern by the Western Han. The high-fired calcareous-glazed ceramics and stamped hard-pottery produced across the Jiangdong, Hunan–Jiangxi, and Lingnan regions came to show marked regional differences in the types, forms, and decoration of their wares. This lecture focuses on the distinctive development of the ceramic industry in Han-dynasty Jiangdong and, drawing on existing archaeological findings, examines the circulation of Jiangdong ceramic products and their influence on ceramic production in other regions.
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