Material Text Cultures - Collaborative Research Centre 933 of the German Research Foundation at Heidelberg University

Chun Fung Tong 唐俊峰

B09

Chinese Studies
Institute of Chinese Studies

Telephone:
E-Mail: ib446@uni-heidelberg.de

ADDRESS

Institute of Chinese Studies
Voßstraße 2, room 120.00.18
69115 Heidelberg

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Institutional, political and social history of Early China
Material culture of Early and Early Medieval China (esp. 4rd c. BCE-4rd c. CE)
Early Chinese manuscripts on wood, bamboo, and silk

EDUCATION

2020: PhD. (Chinese Studies), "Fall of an Empire: State Power and Governance of the Qin Empire", Heidelberg University
2013: Master of Philosophy in History, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
2011: Bachelor of Arts (First-class Honour) in History, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

October 2019 onward: Researcher at the SFB 933 Material Text Cultures, sub-project B9

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

August 2017-July 2019: PhD Scholarship funded through the Gerda Henkel Stiftung
August 2016-July 2017: Individual PhD Fellowship funded through the Landesgraduiertenförderung (LGF) programme, Baden-Württemberg

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs/ Edited volumes

(Edited with LAI Ming Chiu and MA Tsang Wing) Dong Han de Falü, Xingzheng yu Shehui: Changsha Wuyi Guangchang Dong Han Jiandu Tansuo 東漢的法律、行政與社會：長沙五一廣場東漢簡牘探索 (Law, Administration, and Society in Eastern Han China: Study on the Eastern Han Manuscripts from the Wuyi Square of Changsha). Hong Kong: Sanlian shudian (Hong Kong), 2019.

Journal Articles

“The Reformation of Social Order in the Qin Empire.” Asia Major, forthcoming.
“Framing the Qin Collapse: Redaction and Authorship of the Shiji 史記.” Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques 75.4 (2021): 901-946. https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2021-0008
“The Construction of Territories in the Qin Empire.” T’oung Pao 107 (2021): 509-554. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10705001
“Qindai “zhifa” zhongyang erqianshi guan fanchen xingzhi shenlun” 秦代「執法」中央二千石官泛稱性質申論 (On the Qin “Law Enforcer” as a Generic Term for the 2000- bushel Officials in the Central Government). Jianbo yanjiu (2021 Qiudong juan) 簡帛研究（2021 秋冬卷）: 67-83.
“Xinjian Jingzhou Hujiacaochang 12 hao Han mu ‘Waiyue lü’ ‘Manyi lü’ tiaowen tijie yu jiaoshi” 新見荊州胡家草場12號漢墓《外樂律》《蠻夷律》條文題解與校釋 (A Reflection with Critical Edition of the Newly Discovered “Statutes on External Musicians” and “Statutes on Barbarians” from the Han Tomb no.12 of Hujiacaochang, Jingzhou). In: Falü shi yi ping 法律史譯評, vol. 8. Edited by Zhou Dongping 周東平 and Zhu Teng 朱騰. Shanghai: Zhongxi, 2020, 72-93.
“Shouling jian he hengshu shu: Du ‘Liye Qin jian (er)’ zhaji liang ze” 受令簡和恒署書：讀《里耶秦簡（貳）》札記兩則. Jianbo 簡帛 (Bamboo and Silk) 19 (2019): 107-124.
(With LAI, Ming Chiu) “Qin zhi xihan shuguo de zhiguan zhidu yu anzhi moshi” 秦至西漢屬國的職官制度與安置模式 (The Bureaucracy and Settlement Pattern of Dependent States during the Qin and Western Han Dynasties). Zhongguoshi yanjiu 中國史研究 (Journal of Chinese Historical Studies) 2018.3: 43-62.
“Qin dai qianling xian xingzheng xinxi chuandi xiaolu chutan” 秦代遷陵縣行政信息傳遞效率初探 (A Preliminary Study on the Efficiency of Administrative Communications of the Qianling County during the Qin Era). Jianbo 16 (2018): 191-230.
“Qin Han he wenshu geshi yanbian chutan” 秦漢劾文書格式演變初探 (A Preliminary Study on the Development of Model of the Official Accusations in the Qin and Han Dynasties). Zhongguo gudai falü wenxian yanjiu 中國古代法律文獻研究 11 (2017): 131-159; Revised version in: Chutu wenxian de shijie: Di liu jie chutu wenxian qingnian xuezhe luntan lunwenji 出土文獻的世界：第六屆出土文獻青年學者論壇論文集. Edited by Chutu wenxian yu Zhongguo gudai wenming yanjiu xietong chuangxin zhongxin Zhongguo renmin daxue fenzhongxin 出土文獻與中國古代文明研究協同創新中心中國人民大學分中心. Shanghai: Zhongxi, 2018, 190-212.
(With LAI, Ming Chiu)“Liye Qin jian suojian qin dai xian guan cao zuzhi de zhineng fenye yu xingzheng hudong”里耶秦簡所見秦代縣官、曹組織的職能分野與行政互動 (The Division of Labor and Administrative Coordination between Guan and Cao Organization in the Qin County Administration attested in the Liye Manuscripts). Jianbo, 13 (2016): 131-158.
“A35 Dawancheng yizhi jianshui duwei fe shuu bian yi” A35大灣城遺址肩水都尉府說辨疑 [A Reassertion on the Site of Taralingin-durbeljin (A35) as the Office of Jian-shui Commandant]. Jianbo 9 (2014): 223-240.
“Jiaqu houguan di 68 hao tanfang chutu hezhuang jiance de fuyuan yu yanjiu” 甲渠候官第68號探方出土劾狀簡冊的復原與研究 (Reconstruction and Study of the Accusation Documents Unearthed from the 68th Location of Jiaqu Company Fort). Jianduxue yanjiu 簡牘學研究 (A collection of studies on inscriptions on bamboo slips or wooden tablets) 5 (2014): 38-58.
“Qin Han di difang duguan yu difang xingzheng” 秦漢的地方都官與地方行政 (The Administrative Relationships between the Regional Duguans and Local Administrations during the Qin and Han Dynasties). Xin Shixue 新史學 (New History Journal) 25.3 (2014): 1-63.
“Xi Han hexi tianguan de zuzhi yu xingzheng” 西漢河西田官的組織與行政 (The Organisation and Administration of tian-guan in He-xi during the Han Dynasty). Zhongguo wenhua yanjiusuo xuebao 中國文化研究所學報 (Journal of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 59 (2014): 87-120.
“Liye Qin jian suo shi qin dai de ‘jianhu’ yu ‘jihu’” 里耶秦簡所示秦代的「見戶」與「積戶」(‘Present Households’ and ‘Congregated Households’ in the Qin Dynasty”). Jianbowang 簡帛網 8-2-2014. http://www.bsm.org.cn/show_article.php?id=1987
“Yanzhenqing “zheng zuowei tie” banben wenti lue tan” 顏真卿《爭座位帖》版本問題略探 )A Bibliographical Study on the Letter on the Controversy over Seating Protocol by Yan Zhenqing”). Jinan shixue 暨南史學 (Historical Journal of Chi Nan) 15 (2012): 1-44.

Book Chapter

“Wuyiguangchang Dong Han jiandu suoshi Linxiang xianting de neiwai kongjian yu shehui kongzhi” 五一廣場東漢簡牘所示臨湘縣廷的內外空間與社會控制 (The Division of Interior and Exterior Spaces and Social Control of the Linxiang County Court as Seen through the Wuyi Square Manuscripts). In: Linxiang shehui de guanzhi panji: Changsha Wuyiguangchang Dong Han jiandu tansuo 臨湘社會的管治磐基：長沙五一廣場東漢簡牘探索 (The Foundations of Governance of the Linxiang Society: Studies on the Eastern Han Manuscripts from the Wuyi Square of Changsha). Ed. Lai Ming Chiu and Lau Ting Long 劉天朗. Hong Kong: Sanlian, 2022, 89-128.
“Dong Han zaozhong qi Linxiang xian de xingzheng juece guocheng: Yi Wuyi guangchang Dong Han jiandu wei zhongxin” 東漢早中期臨湘縣的行政決策過程：以五一廣場東漢簡牘為中心 (The Administrative Procedures in Linxiang County during the Early-Middle Eastern Han Dynasty: Evidence from the Wuyi Square Manuscripts). In: Dong Han de Falü, Xingzheng yu Shehui. Edited by Lai, Ma, and Tong, 131-187.

Translations

GUO, Weitao. “Review on Momiyama Akira 籾山明; Satō Makoto 佐藤信 ed. Bunken to ibutsu no kyōkai: Chūgoku shutsudo kandoku shiryō no seitaiteki kenkyū 文献と遺物の境界：中国出土簡牘史料の生態的研究 [The Boundary between Document and Artifact: The Study of the Environment of Slips-and-Boards Historical Sources Excavated in China] Vol.1 and 2”. Bamboo and Silk, Volume 2 (2019): Issue 2 (Apr 2019): 339-356.
KIM, Kyung-ho and LAI, Ming Chiu. “An Overview of the Qin-Han Legal System from the Perspective of Recently Unearthed Documents”, Paul R. Goldin ed. Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History. London: Routledge, 2018, 392-410.

Selected conference/workshop presentations/participations

“Wuyiguangchang Dong Han jiandu suoshi Linxiang xianting de neiwai kongjian yu shehui kongzhi” 五一廣場東漢簡牘所示臨湘縣廷的內外空間與社會控制 (The Division of Interior and Exterior Spaces and Social Control of the Linxiang County Court as Seen through the Wuyi Square Manuscripts). Paper presented at the conference “Chutu wenxian yu Qin Han fazhi” 出土文獻與秦漢法治. Institute for Chinese Ancient Legal Documents, China University of Political Science and Law, 17 September 2022.
“Qin wangchao tongyi zhanzheng guocheng zhong de junliang diaopei yu guojia caizheng jiguan de xingcheng: yi zhisu dafu yu zhisu neishi wei zhongxin” 秦王朝統一戰爭過程中的軍糧調配與國家財政機關的形成：以治粟大府與治粟內史為中心 (Army Provisioning Logistics during the Unification War of the Qin State and the Formation of State-level Fiscal Organizations: Evidence from the Grand Office of Grain Management and the Metropolitan Scribe of Grain Management). Paper presented at the workshop “Guojia zhidu yu shehui” 國家制度與社會. Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 30-31 August 2022.
“Between Slip and Board: Rulership and Writing Support in Eastern Han China, 25–220.” Paper presented at the workshop “Keeping Record: The Materiality of Rulership and Administration in the Pre-Modern World.” Collaborative Research Centre 933 “Material Text cultures”, Heidelberg University, 24-25 March 2022; also at the Conference “Standardisation of Written Artefacts in East Asia.” The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg, 17-19 August 2022 under the title “Between Slip and Board: Standardization and Destandardization of Writing Supports in Eastern Han China, 25–220.”
“Monumentalization of Local Memories in China’s Eastern Han Dynasty, 25-220 CE.” Missing Sources & Marginal Voices: Reconstructing Asian Historical Narratives. Department of History, University of Macau, 6-7 December, 2021.
“The Reformation of Social Order in the Qin Empire.” Paper presented at the 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS). 27 August 2021.
“Shouling jian, hengshu shu, zhifa: Du ‘Liye Qin jian (er)’ zhaji san ze” 受令簡、恒署書、執法：讀《里耶秦簡（貳）》札記三則, paper presented at the conference “International Forum for the Study of Chinese Excavated Texts 2018” 中國簡帛學國際論壇 2018, Jeju do, 17-20 December 2018.
“The Western Han Legal Manuscripts from the Shuihudi Tomb No. 77: An Introduction”, paper presented at the workshop “Non-literary Manuscripts from Qin and Early Han times”, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culures, Hamburg University, 11-12 September 2018; also at the Fourth Biannual Ph.D. Student and Early-Career Scholar Workshop. International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures, Renmin University of China, 14-18 January, 2019.
“The Human Resource Shortage in a Qin Regional Government: Evidence from the Liye Manuscripts”, presented at the “Society for the Study of Early China Sixth Annual Conference”, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington D.C., 22 March, 2018.
“A Supplementary Note on the Unsealing Practice in the Qin and Former Han era”秦、西漢官文書啟封制度演變補論, paper presented at the conference “International Forum for the Study of Chinese Excavated Texts 2017” 中國簡帛學國際論壇2017, Wuhan University, 10-11 October, 2017.
“A Preliminary Study on the Development of Model of the Official Accusations in the Qin and Han Dynasties” 秦漢劾文書格式演變初探, paper presented at the conference “The World of Excavated Manuscripts: the 6th Annual Forum for the Study of Excavated Manuscripts for Young Scholars” 出土文獻的世界：出土文獻青年學者論壇, Renmin University of China, 8-9 August, 2017.
“Graduate Workshop on Ancient Chinese Palaeography and Phonology”, Oxford University China Centre, 3-8July, 2017.
“A Preliminary Study on the Efficiency of Administrative Communications of the Qianling County during the Qin Era” 秦代遷陵縣行政信息傳遞效率初探, paper presented at the conference “International Forum for the Study of Chinese Excavated Texts 2016” 中國簡帛學國際論壇 2016, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 12-13 December, 2016.