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About Lance Pursey
I am a JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Waseda University. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Birmingham, where I completed my PhD in 2020. Both my PhD and postdoctoral research are part of the AHRC Research Project ‘Understanding cities in the premodern history of Northeast China, c. 200-1200’. My PhD thesis collated epigraphic sources to identify patterns in epitaph production and correlate them to political events and broader social changes in the two centuries of Liao rule in Northeast Asia. I am currently investigating social stratification and population distributions in 10th to 12th century Northeast Asia, using a methodology that incorporates archaeological sources and fieldwork, close reading of textual sources, GIS and DH prosopography. My BA was in Chinese studies with Japanese at the University of Sheffield, and my MA was in Daoist Studies at Sichuan University in the PRC. My general research interests include: Kitan studies, Medieval Chinese religion, National Identities in Asian History, Landscape Archaeology, Northeast Asian Archaeology, Prosopography and Chinese Historiography.NBN Episodes hosted by Lance:
October 8, 2023
The Rise of the Mongols
In this interview we deep dive into the historiographical issues of the texts in The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources (Hackett, 2021), edited…
September 16, 2022
Buddhist Historiography in China
Since the early days of Buddhism in China, monastics and laity alike have expressed a profound concern with the past. In voluminous historical works, …
April 6, 2022
Hammer and Anvil
This groundbreaking book examines the role of rulers with nomadic roots in transforming the great societies of Eurasia, especially from the thirteenth…
March 14, 2022
The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying
This book presents for the first time in English a complete translation of the Expository Commentary to the Daode jing, written by the Daoist monk Che…
March 1, 2022
The Empress in the Pepper Chamber
Zhao Feiyan (45-1 BCE), the second empress appointed by Emperor Cheng of the Han dynasty (207 BCE-220 CE), was born in slavery and trained in the perf…
January 14, 2022
The Yellow River
A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape From Neolithic times to the …
November 30, 2021
The Way of the Barbarians
Shao-yun Yang's The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China (University of Washington Press, 2019) challenges assump…