Welcome to the personal research website of Anthony Barbieri (李安敦), [pen name: Anthony Barbieri-Low], Professor of Early Chinese History at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Trained at Harvard (M.A., 1997) in East Asian Studies and Princeton (Ph.D. 2001 in Chinese Art and Archaeology, I have wide-ranging interests in many aspects of Early China, including technology, organization of production, labor history, gender and social relations, legal process, visual and material culture, and state formation. I also conduct research in Egyptology as a comparative field with early China. I teach undergraduate courses in East Asian civilization, world history, and early Chinese history, and graduate courses in specialized topics related to ancient China and Egypt. Please explore the menus above and recents posts below to learn more about my research and teaching!
I am accepting PhD applications for fall of 2024.
Recent Happenings
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New Book Available to Order: The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China
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New Lecture Uploaded: “Burning the Books and Killing the Scholars: Representing the Atrocities of the First Emperor of Qin”
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New Lecture Uploaded “Visions of Immortality and Paradise in Ancient China and Egypt”
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New Lecture Uploaded “Regionalism in Han Lacquer Painting”
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New Lecture Uploaded “Eurasian Currents of Transmission and Adaptation”
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New Lecture Uploaded, “Imagining the Tomb of the First Emperor of China”
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Professor Barbieri Awarded NEH Fellowship
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Professor Barbieri interviewed by Faculti about his new book on Egypt and China
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New Book Available for Order
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New Book Available for Order