Edited volumes

The burial site known as the Wu Family Shrines in the Shandong Province of northeastern China has served as a benchmark for the study of the Han Dynasty. This book presents scholarship that prompts reexamination of the site’s implications, including its attribution to the Wu family. The catalogue reinterprets the cemetery structures based on the discovery of additional structures and archaeological materials, and evidence that some of the writing and pictorial carvings at the site may have been re-cut over the intervening centuries.

I published a chapter called "Craftsmen's Literacy: Uses of Writing by Male and Female Artisans in Qin and Han China" in this edited volume. The chapter expanded on my treatment of artisan literacy found in my monograph on artisans, also bringing in a stronger theoretical perspective and further examples from Qin and Han lacquer and from the terra-cotta warriors.

I published a chapter in this book that was based on a conference in honor or Orlando Patterson's 35th anniversary of Slavery and Social Death. The chapter called, “Becoming Almost Somebody: Manumission and its Complications in the Early Han Empire,” uses the Zhangjiashan texts to confirm for the first time the status of "freedman" in Ancient China, and demonstrates that the process of manumission and freedman status were in accord with Patterson's cross-cultural findings.

I published a chapter in this exhibition conference volume, "Imagining the Tomb of the First Emperor of China," which will later be expanded for inclusion in my book on the First Emperor.

I published a chapter in this book called, "“Corrupt and Intransigent Officials in Early Imperial China." It builds on my translation of the legal cases and laws in Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China, to discuss the nature of official corruption and measures taken by the state to suppress it.