Mei Jianjun (梅建军) is an archaeo-metallurgist. He is currently Director of the Needham Research Institute, Fellow of Churchill College, and Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. He is also President of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine.
Mei, J.; Wang, P.; Chen, K.; Wang, L.; Wang, Y.; Liu, Y. (2015). "Archaeometallurgical studies in China: Some recent developments and challenging issues". Journal of Archaeological Science. 56: 221. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2015.02.026.
(with Xu Jianwei, Chen Kunlong et al.), "Recent Research on Early Bronze Metallurgy in Northwest China", in Paul Jett (ed.), Scientific Research on Ancient Asian Metallurgy. Washington: Freer Gallery of Arts, 2012, pp. 37–46.
(with Thilo Rehren) eds, Metallurgy and Civilisation: Eurasia and Beyond. London: Archetype Publications, 2009.
(with Kunlong Chen and Wei Cao), "Scientific Examination of Shang-Dynasty Bronzes from Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, China" in Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(9), 2009: 1881-1891.
"Early Metallurgy and Socio-Cultural Complexity: Archaeological Discoveries in Northwest China", in Bryan K. Hanks and Katheryn M.Linduff (eds.), Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 215–32.
(with Kunlong Chen, Thilo Rehren, et al.), "Special Alloys from Remote Frontiers: Scientific Study of the Shang Bronzes from Hanzhong, Southwest Shaanxi", Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(10), 2009: 2108-2118.
"The Material Culture of the Iron Age Peoples in Xinjiang, Northwest China", in Joan Aruz and Ann Farkas (eds), The Golden Deer of Eurasia. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006, pp. 132–145.
(with Thilo Rehren), "Copper Smelting from Xinjiang, Northwest China, Part I: Kangcun village, Kuche County, c. 18th century AD", Historical Metallurgy, 39(2), 2005: 96-105.
"Metallurgy in Bronze Age Xinjiang and its Cultural Context", in Katheryn M. Linduff (ed.), Metallurgy in Eastern Eurasia from the Urals to the Yellow River. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004, pp. 173–88.
"Qijia and Seima-Turbino: the Question of Early Contacts between Northwest China and the Eurasian Steppe". Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 75 (2003): 31-54.
"Cultural interaction between China and Central Asia during the Bronze Age. Proceedings of the British Academy, 121 (2003): 1-39.
(with Colin Shell), "The Iron Age Cultures in Xinjiang and their Steppe Connections", in Katie Boyle et al. (eds.), Ancient Interactions: East and West in Eurasia. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2002, pp. 213–234.
Copper and Bronze Metallurgy in Late Prehistoric Xinjiang: Its Cultural Context and Relationship with Neighbouring Regions. BAR International Series 865. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2000.
