Li Ling is a distinguished Chinese historian and archaeologist, a towering figure in the study of classical Chinese civilization today. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University since 1985. He has published prolifically in the areas of Chinese paleography, classical philology, intellectual history, historical geography, the history of science and technology, as well as material culture and art history (with special emphasis on Chinese bronzes). He is especially interested in the connections between China and other parts of Eurasia in antiquity. In 2016, he was named Foreign Honorary Member of the 236-year-old American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS), one of the world’s most prestigious honorary societies.Lothar von Falkenhausen is Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History at UCLA, where he has taught since 1993. He also heads the East Asian Laboratory at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, and he served as Associate Director of that Institute from 2004–2014. His research concerns the archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age, focusing on large interdisciplinary and historical issues on which archaeological materials can provide significant new information. His Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000–250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence (2006) received the Society for American Archaeology Book Award.

Li Ling is a distinguished Chinese historian and archaeologist, a towering figure in the study of classical Chinese civilization today. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University since 1985. He has published prolifically in the areas of Chinese paleography, classical philology, intellectual history, historical geography, the history of science and technology, as well as material culture and art history (with special emphasis on Chinese bronzes). He is especially interested in the connections between China and other parts of Eurasia in antiquity. In 2016, he was named Foreign Honorary Member of the 236-year-old American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS), one of the world’s most prestigious honorary societies.Lothar von Falkenhausen is Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History at UCLA, where he has taught since 1993. He also heads the East Asian Laboratory at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, and he served as Associate Director of that Institute from 2004–2014. His research concerns the archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age, focusing on large interdisciplinary and historical issues on which archaeological materials can provide significant new information. His Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000–250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence (2006) received the Society for American Archaeology Book Award.