Roderick Campbell is Associate Professor of East Asian Archaeology and History at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. He has received numerous fellowships, awards, and grants for his work from institutions such as the Luce Archaeology Initiative, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
'... this book puts scholarship on the Shang on an entirely new level. It is a must-read for any scholar interested in early China or in exploring how Chinese evidence can reshape theoretical paradigms in history and the Social Sciences.' Lothar von Falkenhausen, Journal of the American Oriental Society