Anthony J. Barbieri-Low is professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Artisans in Early Imperial China (University of Washington Press, 2007) and Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture (University of Washington Press, 2021); and coauthor of Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: Study and Translation of the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan Tomb no. 247 (Brill, 2015) and Recarving China's Past: Art, Architecture, and Archaeology of the "Wu Family Shrines" (Yale University Press, 2005).