Chris Kim

Chris Kim is a historian of early China whose interdisciplinary research explores state-building, political economy, and urbanism in the Zhou dynasty. His current book project, Building the Qi State, examines the spatial, economic, and infrastructural dynamics of state power in Qi over the course of its transformation from a peripheral polity in present-day Shandong Province to a major territorial power of eastern China in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, c. 700-300 BCE. Chris is also working on a range of related projects including Eastern Zhou kingship, early Chinese coinage, and the cross-cultural exchange of metallurgical knowledge in the greater Yellow Sea region in antiquity. He received his PhD from Columbia University and MA from Harvard University. Before coming to Yale, he was a visiting assistant professor at New York University.