LAM Weng Cheong


Assistant Professor


OfficeNAH 323
Office Tel.3943 7705
Emailwlam@cuhk.edu.hk
Educational qualificationA.B, M.A. Peking University
Ph.D Harvard University

IntroductionProf. Lam is an assistant professor of anthropological archaeology working in mainland China. His research currently focuses on the economic system and social development during the Bronze Age and Han Empire. His research incorporates interests in various archaeological techniques including metallurgy, zooarchaeology and GIS (Geographic Information System) to study the craft production and exchange network during one of the most critical periods in Chinese history. He has conducted archaeological research in Shaanxi to investigate the ancient iron economy in the Han capital area since 2011. New research is focused on the Han exchange network in provincial centers and imperial expansion of the Han dynasty. Current research and writing projects focus on the social development in Early China including: the change of craft production system and iron technology, the anthropology of commodities, interregional interaction, cultural transmission, and the market system of food.
林永昌助理教授主要在中国大陆进行考古田野工作。他的研究方向是商周与秦汉时期的经济体系与社会变迁。他的研究主要结合不同的分析技术，包括冶金分析、动物考古学和地理信息系统(GIS)，以分析考古学中的手工业生产和交换网络。目前的他在中国南方开展考古项目，分析汉代的交换网络。
Research interestsArchaeology of the Qin-Han empire and Bronze Age China, metallurgy, zooarchaeology, GIS in archaeology, development of metal technology in China, history of material culture and art in ancient China, craft production, gender archaeology, commodities and economic anthropology
秦汉及商周考古，冶金学，动物考古学，考古学中GIS的应用，中国冶金技术发展史，古代中国物质文化与艺术发展史，手工业生产，性别考古，商品与经济人类学
Geographical areas of researchMainland China, Southeast Asia
Courses taughtANTH 1770 Understanding Archaeology
ANTH 2760 China’s Cultural Heritage
HIST 4140A History of Material Culture in Ancient China
Current research“Development of the Iron Industry in the Guanzhong Basin during the Han? period: Scientific Analyses of Manufacturing Waste from the Taicheng Foundry (funded by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage)”
“The eastern territory of the Western Zhou Dynasty?(funded by the The National Social Science Fund of China)”
Selected PublicationsBook (Co-author with Dr. Alice Yao)
In Prep?????? The Archaeology of the Han Dynasty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Site-report monograph
Shaanxisheng, [Shaanxisheng Kaogu Yanjiuyuan 陕西省考古研究院] (第二执笔)??????????
2018?? 《邰城铸铁:陕西杨淩汉代铸铁遗址发掘与研究》 [Taicheng Ironworks: Report on the Excavation and Research of a Cast Iron Foundry of the Han Period in Yangling, Shaanxi]. Shanghai上海, Shanghai Guji Press上海古籍出版社.
Referred Articles (selected)
Lam, Wengcheong
2020 Integration and the regional market system in the Early Chinese empires: a case study of the distribution of iron and bronze objects in the Wei river valley, Asian Perspectives (Accepted and forth-coming).
Hunan et al., [Hunansheng Wenwu Kaogu Yanjiusuo湖南省文物考古研究所等] (second author)
2019 湖南桑植官田冶炼遗址发掘简报及冶金分析研究 (The preliminary report on the excavation of the ironworks at Guantian site in Sangzhi, Hunan, and archaeometallurgical analysis of manufacturing remains), 《南方文物》 [Southern Cultural Relics] , 2019(3): 69-92.
Lam, Wengcheong, Jianrong Chong, Xingshan Lei, Jianli Chen
2019 ?Economic embeddedness and small-scale iron production in the capital region of the Han Empire: the perspective from faunal remains, Archaeological Research in Asia 17:117-132.
Lam, Wengcheong, Jianli Chen, Jianrong Chong, Xingshan Lei, Wai Lun Tam
2018 An iron production and exchange system at the center of the Western Han Empire: Scientific study of iron products and manufacturing remains from the Taicheng site complex, Journal of Archaeological Science 100:88-101.
Lam Wengcheong林永昌, Chen Jianli陈建立, Chong Jianrong种建荣, et al.
2017?? 论秦国铁器普及化与关中地区战国时期铁器流通模式 (The Spread of Ironware in the Qin State and the Distributional System of Ironware in the Central Shaanxi Plain during the Warring States Period)，《中国国家博物馆馆刊》 [Journal of National Museum of China]，2017(3): 36-53.
Lam Wengcheong林永昌
2017 ?试论东周晋系墓葬的长幼之序与男女之别 (On the age and gender difference in the burial practice of Eastern Zhou Tombs of the Jin State)，《古代文明》(第十二卷) [Ancient Civilization] (vol.12)，北京大学中国考古学研究中心、北京大学震旦古代文明研究中心编 (Eds. Beijing daxue zhongguo kaoguxue yanjiu zhongxin, Beijing daxue zhengdan gudai wenming yanjiu zhongxin) pp.248-267. Shanghai上海, Shanghai Guji Press上海古籍出版社.
Book Review (selected)
Lam, Wengcheong
2018 A Review of Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations, Asian Ethnicity, 2018(7):1-5.
Grants and Projects (selected)GRF#**???? Market System at the Conjunction of the Imperial Interregional Network: An Archaeological Study of Metal Objects in the Jingnan Region of the Han Empire
ECS#**???? The archaeology of iron technology and the sovereignty of the Han dynasty in its southern periphery
AwardThe Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award 2016