YUN ZHANG
EDUCATION AND WORK
Assistant Research Fellow, the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China 2023-present
DPhil in Archaeological Science, Oxford University, UK .2018-2023
MA in Archaeology, Northwest University, China .2015-2018
BS in Cultural Heritage Conservation, Northwest University, China 2011-2015
Fields of study
Material Culture and Cultural Evolution (ceramics, pigments, glass, and metallurgy); Silk Roads; Technological Exchange; Application of Novel Analytical Methods; History of Science and Technology
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
ZHANG Yun* & POLLARD A.Mark.
2026. The use of cobalt on Chinese ceramics from the 7th to 20th Centuries CE. In: Andrew Shortland (Ed.), Of Goblins and Gods: 3500 Years of Cobalt and its Pigments. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 197-223.
CAO Kai, ZHANG Yun, XIONG Shaobai, SHUI Tao* & MA Peng*.
2025. The westernmost Bronze Age oasis settlement in the Tarim Basin: excavating at the Aketala sites. Antiquity, 10224
MA Yifei, ZHAO Zimo, SHEN Yuanxing, …, Zhang Yun, …, MORRIS M Stephen, BOOTH J Martin & HE Chao*.
2025. Using optical skyrmions to assess vectorial adaptive optics capabilities in the presence of complex aberrations. Sci. Adv., 11, eadv 7904.
ZHANG Yun*.
2025. The Origin of Blue-and-white Porcelain: A Silk Road Perspective. 当丝绸之路“初遇”唐青花. Social Sciences Weekly社会科学报, Oct-10 A06.
HE Chao*, CHEN Binguo, SONG Zipei, …, Zhang Yun, …, MORRIS M Stephen, BOTH J Martin & FORBES Andrew.
2025. A reconfigurable arbitrary retarder array as complex structured matter. Nature Communications, 16, 4902.
Pollard A Mark, Liu Ruiliang, & Zhang Yun.
2025. Investigation of the recycling of Han Chinese bronze mirrors into Japanese imitation mirrors. Archaeometry, 67(4), 937-949.
Pollard A Mark*, LIU Ruiliang & ZHANG Yun (trans).
2024.Combining lead isotope and alloy composition modelling in Chinese Shang- dynasty bronzes商代青铜器铅同位素与合金成分综合模型分析. Science for Archaeology科技考古, (8), 286-299.
Zhang Yun.
2023. The Technology of Tang Sancai Glaze. PhD thesis. University of Oxford.
POLLARD A.Mark*, ZHANG Yun & LIU Ruiliang.
2023. Bronze Alloying Recipes at Anyang During the Shang Dynasty. Archaeological and Anthropological Science, 15(156).
ZHANG Yun* & POLLARD A.Mark.
2022. The Archaeological and Scientific Analysis of Blue-Decorated Ceramics in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Archaeometry, 64(6), 1394-1410.
