YING TUNG Fung 馮映彤
- Research Assistant Professor in Early Chinese History and Archaeology
Ying Tung Fung
Overview
Dr. Ying Tung Fung is a Research Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Science. Before joining HKU, she was an ERC-funded postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Fung received her DPhil in archaeology from the University of Oxford. Her research primarily focuses on Chinese archaeology, with a particular emphasis on the prehistoric period. Her doctoral research explores the late Neolithic fortification of Shimao and the wider region of the North Loess Plateau. A paper related to her doctoral research received the Best Student Paper Award at the Society for East Asian Archaeology Conference. Furthermore, her thesis was a finalist for the Best Doctoral Thesis Prize 2023 awarded by the British Association for Chinese Studies.
Dr. Fung’s research interests encompass various aspects such as the paradigm and developmental trajectory leading to the origin of “Chinese civilization,” urbanism, chronological modeling, socio-economic practices, subsistence strategies, utilisation of animal resources, climate and environmental changes, human-animal-environment relationships, spatiotemporal changes, and the transmission of knowledge and ideas. One of her ongoing projects, funded by the Sin Wai-kin Junior Fellowship, investigates the introduction and adoption of domesticated grassland animals from the Neolithic to the Eastern Zhou period.
Publications
Fung, Ying Tung, Higham, Tom and Rawson, Jessica. (forthcoming). Re-examining the chronological framework and shifting pattern of human occupation in the North Loess Plateau using Bayesian modelling. Journal of World Prehistory.
Fung, Ying Tung. (forthcoming). Shimao and Its Impact on Debates about Early China. In Anke, Hein & Julia, Lovell (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on the History and Practice of Chinese Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fung, Ying Tung, Gantumur, Angaragdulguun, Wachtel, Ido, Chunag, Amartuvshin, Zhang, Zhidong, Fenigstein, Or and Shelach-Lavi, Gideon. (2023). Unraveling the Mongolian Arc: A Field Survey and Spatial Investigation of a Previously Unexplored Wall System in Eastern Mongolia. Journal of Field Archaeology.
Contact
- Room 213, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong
- Tel: (852) 3917-5908
- Fax: (852) 2559-6143
- Email: fungyt@hku.hk