Cao Wei is a historian, a field archaeologist, and a scholar specializing in the study of ancient Chinese bronzes. He was previously a senior research fellow and the deputy director of the Museum of the Terracotta Army of the Qin Emperor in Shaanxi, China. He currently holds a professorship at Shaanxi Normal University. He serves as a board member of the Association for the Study of the Yin/Shang Culture. His primary research and publications have focused on Zhou period bronzes and their uses in ritual practice.
