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Feng Li

Feng Li

Professor of Early Chinese History and Archaeology

Office: 422 Kent Hall
Office Hours: On leave 2025-2026
Phone: (212) 854-2510
Email: fl123@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Institute of Archaeology (’86)
PhD: University of Chicago (’00)

Research Interests

Early Chinese Archaeology, Bronze-Age Cultures, Early Imperialisms, History of Literacy

Professor Li received his MA from the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He also did Ph.D. work in the University of Tokyo (1991). He is both a historian of Early China specializing in bronze inscriptions of the Shang-Zhou period, and an active field archaeologist. His past work has addressed the complex relationship between geography and political processes in the collapse of a prominent Bronze-Age state, and the performance of the earliest bureaucracy in China and the nature of the early Chinese state. Professor Li’s work engages both epigraphic-textual and material evidence and offers question-led interpretations of Bronze-Age society and culture in comparative frameworks. He directed Columbia’s first archaeological field project in China in 2006-2011. In recent years, he is undertaking the writing of the Economic History of Late Bronze-Age China (ca. 1000-500 BC). He founded and co-chaired the Columbia Early China Seminar in 2002-2012, and is co-editor of Tang Center Series in Early China. See his personal website for a fuller list of publications.

Selected English (and bilingual) language Publications:

Guicheng: A Study of the Formation of States on the Jiaodong Peninsula in Late Bronze-Age China, 1000-500 BCE (chief co-editor, Science Press, 2018).

Early China: A Social and Cultural History (Cambridge, 2014)

Writing and Literacy in Early China (co-editor; UW Press, 2013)

Bureaucracy and the State in Early China: Governing the Western Zhou (Cambridge, 2008)

Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou, 1045-771 BC (Cambridge, 2006)

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So-Rim Lee

So-Rim Lee

Academy of Korean Studies Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Lecturer at the Center for Korean Research

Office: 909A IAB
Office Hours: R 2:30-4:00
Email: sl2179@columbia.edu

Educational Background
PhD Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University
M.A. Text and Performance, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art — Birkbeck, University of London
M.A. English Literature, Seoul National University
B.A. Film Studies, Columbia University
Classes Taught

EAAS UN3217 Korean Popular Cinema
EAAS UN 3207 Lights, Camera, Action: The Visual Culture of K-pop

Research Interests

Contemporary performance and popular culture in Korea, critical race and gender theories, performance studies and visual culture, film and global media studies, transnational East Asia

So-Rim Lee is the 2018-19 Center for Korean Research-Academy of Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. Lee researches on contemporary popular culture’s complex embodiments of neoliberalism through performance studies and visual culture, with a focus on South Korea. Lee’s doctoral dissertation, “Performing the Self: Cosmetic Surgery and the Political Economy of Beauty in Korea,” weds historiography, cultural studies, media studies, and performance analysis to construe cosmetic surgery as a mode of performing one’s subjectivity in contemporary Korea. Lee has previously written for New Theatre Quarterly, Performance Research, and Theatre Survey, and is a recipient of the Ric Weiland Humanities and Sciences Fellowship, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and the Charlene Porras Graduate Scholar Award from the El Centro Chicano y Latino at Stanford University.

Beom Lee

Beom Lee

Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502-C Kent Hall
Office Hours: MW 1:00-2:00
Phone: (212) 854-5144
Email: bl355@columbia.edu

Educational Background

EDM: Instructional Technology and Media, Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: Computing and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: Sociology, Hanyang University
BA: Sociology, Hanyang University

Classes Taught
Introductory Korean
First Year Korean
Second Year Korean
Third Year Korean
Fourth Year Korean
Fifth Year Korean
Advanced Korean in Mixed Script
Research Interests

Computer/mobile-based Language Instruction
Language Learning in Cognitive Science

Beom Lee is Korean Language Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He specialized in second language learning with multimedia at Teachers Collage, Columbia University. In Korea, he taught philosophy, history, and culture of Korea and English in the Republic of Korea Army as a military officer in education and psychological warfare. He also worked for Hyundai Construction and Engineering Company as an assistant project manager. Beom Lee joined Columbia faculty in 2005, has taught Introductory, First Year, Second Year, and Fifth Year Korean, and has developed online Korean language resources for First and Second Year Korean with his colleagues.

Online publications

Audio recording for Integrated Korean: Beginning I/II & Intermediate I/II, second edition (University of Hawaii Press, 2016) (http://www.kleartextbook.com)
Online Korean Learning Materials for Non-Heritage Students – Second Year Level I & II, second edition (Columbia University, 2014; co-author) (http://www.lrc.columbia.edu/ko/ko10000)
Online Korean language (The Korea Society, 2013; In progress and partially published)(http://www.koreasociety.org/korean-studies/online-language.html)
Online Korean Learning Materials for Non-Heritage Students – Intermediate Level II (Columbia University, 2012; co-author) (http://www.lrc.columbia.edu/ko/ko10000)
Online Korean Learning Materials for Non-Heritage Students – Intermediate Level I (Columbia University, 2011; co-author) (http://www.lrc.columbia.edu/ko/ko10000)
Online Learning Materials for Elementary Korean True Beginners (Columbia University, 2010; co-author) (http://www.lrc.columbia.edu/ko/ko10000)