
Tel
+853 8822 8944
Office
E21-2023
Consultation Hours
Wednesday 14:00 -15:00
WU, Dongming 吳冬明
I am a historian and archaeologist of Early China. My current research focuses on the bronze economy and how it shaped networks of social interaction in ancient south China. Additionally, I have written on topics including paleography and gender history.
I am the founding director of the collaboration agreement between UM and Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, where I oversee joint archaeological research and internship programs.
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2022
B.A., Sichuan University, 2008
- 2025-present Founding Director, UM–Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology Agreement [澳門大學—湖北省文物考古研究院合作研究教學協議]
- 2024-present Editorial Board Member, The Digest of Chinese Studies [中国研究文摘]. Shanghai People’s Press.
- 2024-present Research Affiliate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
- 2022-23 Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
Book chapters
Essay on the gui vessel of Guaibo [乖伯簋—異姓稱王與他邦鑄器]. In The Book Series on Interpretation of Important Bronze Inscriptions of the Western Zhou, edited by Chen Zhi. Nanjing University Press, 2024.
Peer-reviewed articles
- The Rediscovery of the State of Zeng and the Interregional Networks in Late Bronze Age China. Early China, forthcoming.
- Xuan Liu, Wu Dongming (corresponding author), and Wang Qingzhu. The Inscribed Shang and Zhou Bronze Vessels from Columbia University [美國哥倫比亞大學藏商周有銘青銅器]. Qingtongqi yu jinwen (Bronzes and Inscriptions), forthcoming.
- Copper Mining in Western Zhou China: New Archaeological Evidence from Hubei. Archaeologies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-025-09524-0
- “Women in Charge” and Empires in Change – The Lives of Ordinary Women during the Qin–Han Transition. Bamboo and Silk 8, no. 1 (2025): 57-86.
- King Wu and King Wen of Chu: Memory, Narrative, and Reconstruction in Excavated Texts [楚武王与文王:出土文献中的记忆、叙述和重构]. Qingnian shixue luntan (Youth History Forum) 2 (2024): 114-21.
- An Annotated Reading of the Inscription of Mi Jia Chime-bells and Study of the Political Discourses of Zeng–Chu Interaction [嬭加编钟铭文补释并试论金文所见曾楚交往的政治辞令]. Jianghan kaogu (Jianghan Archaeology) 2 (2020): 115-20.
- Qu Lei, Zhang Ji, Wu Dongming, et al. The 2018 Excavation at the Sujialong Site in Jingshan, Hubei Province [湖北京山苏家垄遗址2018年考古发掘简报]. Jianghan kaogu (Jianghan Archaeology) 2 (2019): 30-48.