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Chinese Archaeology since 1949

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K. C. Chang
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The second half of the twentieth century may be remembered by Chinese archaeologists as the Golden Age of their discipline. A unique combination of factors and circumstances has produced, and will probably continue to produce for a time, enormous amounts of new material for the study of Chinese prehistory and history. These factors and circumstances include a deep-rooted interest of the Chinese people in their past, not only for its own sake but also for guidance, as lesson; the introduction, in the first half of the century, of Western archaeological science; systematic, large-scale, and sustained national projects to construct roads, canals, reservoirs, and buildings throughout China; and a conscious and conscientious effort to include archaeology as an important part of the political education of the people. This sudden flood of new data—most hitherto unknown, and many unexpected and almost unimaginable—provides unprecedented opportunities for gaining new and much richer knowledge of China's past. China scholars will be busy coping with the new materials for decades to come. They should count themselves extremely lucky, for such opportunities are not likely to arise again after the present century; archaeological relics are a limited resource, even in China.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , August 1977 , pp. 623 - 646
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40 See note 37 above.

41 This has long been advocated by Liang Ssu-yung; see his “The Lungshan Culture,” Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Science Congress, 4 (1939), pp. 69–79Google Scholar. For recent discussions on newer data, see KK, 1975 (4) P. 214; WW, 1975 (5), p. 31.

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45 On Hsiao-t'un, the following volumes have been published: by Shih Chang-ju Yin Hsü Chien Chu I Ts'un (1959), Pei-tsu Mu-tsang(1970), Chung-tsu Mu-tsang (1972), Nan-tsu Mu-tsang (1973,),' by Li Chi, T'ao ch'i, 1956. On Hou-chia-chuang “royal tombs,” the following have been reported by Liang Ssu-yung and Kao Ch'ü-hsün: 1001 (1962), 1002 (1965), 1003 (1967), 1004 (1970), 1217 (1968), and 1500 (1974). All of the above were published by the Institute of History and Philology, AS-T. See also Li Chi, An-yang, Univ. of Washington Press, forthcoming.

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51 For investigations of the Ch'in Shih Huang tomb: KK, 1962 (8), pp. 407–11; WW, 1975 (11), pp. 1–30. For work at the Ch'in capital city in Hsien-yang, KK: 1962 (6), pp. 281–89; 1973 (3), pp. 167–70; 1974 (1), pp. 281–89. For a contemporary assessment of the historical role of Ch'in Shih Huang, as seen from archaeology: Shih-min, Wang, “Ch'in Shih Huang t'ung i Chung-kuo ti li shih tso yüng,” KK, 1973 (6), pp. 364–71Google Scholar.

52 K'ao ku t'ung hsün (Peking) [hereafter KKTH]: 1957(5), PP. 102–10; 1958(2), pp. 233–32. See Okazaki, T., Tōyōshi kenkyü, 16 (1957), pp. 62–93Google Scholar, for a general discussion.

53 Monographic reports of Han-period tombs include: Wang-tu Han-mu pi hua, Peking: China Classic Arts Press, 1955Google Scholar; I-nan ku hua hsiang shih mu fa chüeh pao kao, Peking: Ministry of Culture, 1956Google Scholar; Wang-tu Erh-hao Han-mu, Peking: Wen Wu Press, 1959Google Scholar; Lo-yang Shao-kou Han-mu, Peking: Science Press, 1959Google Scholar; Yün-nan Chin-ning Shih-chai shan ku mu tsang ch'ün fa chüeh pao kao, Peking: Wen Wu Press, 1959Google Scholar; Ssu-ch'uan ch'uan kuan tsang fa chüeh pao kao, Peking: Wen Wu Press, 1960Google Scholar. (Ma-wang-tui reports are listed in n. 56 below.) Important reports published in WW: 1955 (5), pp. 15–42; 1961 (4/5), PP. 44–51; 1972 (5), pp. 19–24; 1972 (10), pp. 41–62; 1972 (12), pp. 9–41; 1973 (6), pp. 16–40; 1973 (7), PP. 49–53; 1974 (1), pp. 8–50. Takayasu's, HiguchiKodai Chūgoku o hakktsu-suru (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1975)Google Scholar has a synthesis of Former Han tomb styles. Recent descriptions in English include: Rudolph, R. C., Archaeology, 26 (1973), pp. 106–15Google Scholar; Chaves, J., Artibus Asiae, 30 (1968), pp. 5–27CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Shih, H. Y., Artibus Asiae, 22 (1959), PP. 277–312CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

54 KK: 1972 (1), pp. 8–18, 28; 1972 (2), pp. 39–47.

55 KKHP, 1974 (2), pp. 87–109.

56 For tomb no. 1: Ch'ang-sha Ma-wang-tui l- hao Han-mu, Peking: Wen Wu Press, 1973Google Scholar. For tombs nos. 2 and 3: WW, 1974 (7), pp. 39–48; KK, 1975 (1), PP. 47–57, 61.

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60 KKHP: 9 (1955), pp. 117–36; 1956 (4), PP.21–54. KK: 1961 (3), PP. 127–35; 1973 (4), PP. 198–208, 209–17. Ho Ping-ti: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 26 (1966), pp. 52–101CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Papers Presented to Dr. Li Chi on His 70th Birthday (Taipei: The Tsinghua Journal, 1965), pp. 219–44Google Scholar.

61 KK: 1972 (1), pp. 19–28; 1972 (6), pp. 2–11, 25–31.

62 KKHP, 1956 (3), pp. 33–75. WW: 1960 (4), pp. 53–60; 1964 (1), pp. 7–33; 1972 (7), pp. 13–50; 1974 (9), pp. 71–94. Han T'ang pi hua, T'ang Li Ch'ung-jun mu pi hua, and T'ang Li Hsien mu pi hua, all three Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1974.

63 KK, 1959 (2), pp. 76–81. WW: 1960 (6), pp. 13–21; 1972 (1), pp. 8–29; 1972 (2), pp. 2–15; 1972 (3), PP. 14–19; 1973 (1), PP. 7–80.

64 KKTH, 1958 (5), pp. 66–69. KK: 1959 (5), pp. 231–36; 1963 (6), pp. 291–300, 303–07. WW: 1959 (4), pp. 21–25; 1960 (8/9), pp. 37–42. Nan-ching Liu-ch'ao t'ao yung, Peking: China Classical Arts Press, 1958Google Scholar.

65 KKTH, 1956 (4), pp. 1–4. KK: 1959 (2), pp. 89–93; 1960 (2), pp. 25–28; 1962 (9), pp. 479–83; 1963 (8), pp. 432–36; 1972 (3), PP. 35–40. WW: 1961 (9), PP. 34–40; 1973 (8), pp. 2–18, 30–35; 1975 (8), PP. 31–44; 1975 (12), pp. 26–62. Yutaka, Mino, Ceramics in the Liao Dynasty North and South of the Great Wall, New York: China Institute in America, 1973Google Scholar.

66 WW: 1955 (1), pp. 69–94; 1972 (12), pp. 47–54. Mai-chi shan shih k'u, Peking: Ministry of Culture, 1954Google Scholar; Tun-huang pi hua, Peking, 1959; Shan-hsishih tiao ishu, T'ai-yuan, Shansi Museum, 1962; W. and Forman, F., Ancient Reliefs of China, Peking: Jenmin Press, 1962Google Scholar; Kung-hsien shih k'u ssu, Peking: Wen Wu Press, 1963Google Scholar; Yung-Lo kung, Peking: Wen Wu Press, 1964Google Scholar.

67 Shan-hsi T'ung-ch'uan Yao-chou yao, Peking: Science Press, 1965Google Scholar. KK, 1965 (8), pp. 394–412. KKHP: 1959 (3), pp. 107–19; 1960 (1), pp. 89–103; 1973 (1), PP. 131–56. WW: 1952 (1), pp. 56–62; 1958 (10), pp. 32–35; 1959 (3), PP. 56–58; 1959 (10), pp. 44–49; 1964 (3), PP. 47–55; 1964 (8), pp. 1–48; 1965 (9), pp. 26–56; 1965 (11), pp. 35–43; 1972 (3), PP. 34–48; 1973 (3), PP. 46–51; 1973 (5). PP. 30–40; 1974 (12), pp. 74–81. Yutaka, Mino and Wilson, P., An Index to Chinese Kiln Sites from Six Dynasties to the Present, Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1973Google Scholar.

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70 For using archaeology to help date paintings, see Lee, S. E. and Fong, Wen, Streams and Mountains without End, Artibus Asiae Supplementa XIV (1955)Google Scholar; and Bush, S., “Clearing after Snow in the Min Mountains and Chin Landscape Painting,” Oriental Art, II (1965), pp. 163–72Google Scholar. Another outstanding example concerns the authenticity of Lan T'ing Hsü, in the light of the calligraphic styles of the Eastern Chin period seen in archaeological finds; WW: 1965 (6), pp. 1–25; 1965 (7, supplement), pp. 1–14.

71 ”Prehistory and Archaeology [of China],” Encyclopedia Britannica, Macropaedia, 1974, IV, pp. 297–301Google Scholar; Vasiliev, L. S., in Voprosy Istorü, 1974 (12), pp. 86–102Google Scholar.

72 See note 32 above.

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82 Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968.

83 Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Peking: Foreign Language Press), III, p. 203; IV, p. 423.

84 WW, 1974 (6), pp. 8–15; KK, 1975 (2), PP. 80–85. See also a series of articles about the “struggle between the Confucian and Legalist schools” in Chinese history, using much archae- ological data, in China Reconstructs: March, May, July, September, and November 1975.

85 Mo-jo, Kuo, “Chung-kuo shang ku shih ti fen ch'i wen t',” KK, 1972 (5), pp. 2–7Google Scholar. For a summary of previous efforts: Ch'un-shu, Chang, “The Periodization of Chinese History,” Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, AS-T, 45 (1973), pp. 157–79Google Scholar.

86 KK: 1961 (12), pp. 691–92; 1962 (3), pp. 158–60; 1962 (5), pp. 256–61; 1962 (11), pp. 592–97, 598–600.

87 See note 37 above.

88 See note 85 above.

89 Three good examples: Chi, Li, The Begin–nings of Chinese Civilization, Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1957Google Scholar; Heine-Geldern, Robert von, Lung-shan Culture and East Caspian Culture, Tokyo: Japanese Commission for UNESCO, 1957Google Scholar; Pulleyblank, E. G., “Prehistoric East-West Contacts across Eurasia,” Pacific Affairs, 47 (1974/1975), PP. 500–08CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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91 One attempt to study trade connections among Shang settlements is my “Ancient Trade as Economics or as Ecology” in Sabloff, J. A. and Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C. (eds.), Ancient Civilization and Trade (Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1975), pp. 211–24Google Scholar.

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94 For silk, KK, 1972 (2), pp. 12–27. For paper-making, KKHP, 1956(1), pp. 115–26; WW: 1957 (7), PP. 78–81; 1964 (11), pp. 48–49; 1973 (9), pp. 45–51; also Hsü Cho-yün, in Bulletin … (n. 85 above, AS-T, 44 (1973), pp. 733–61.

95 KK, 1974(4), PP. 251–54; WW, 1975 (2), PP. 1–25.

96 WW: 1974 (8), pp. 76–90; 1975 (1), PP. 74–78; 1975 (5), pp. 76–83. Needham, , Science and Civilization in China, IV, Part 3: Civil Engineering and Nautics, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1971.Google Scholar

97 Needham, ibid., III: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heaven and the Earth, 1959, pp. 171–494. For a recent discovery: WW, 1974 (3), pp. 59–70.

98 Needham, ibid.; Yabuuti, Kiyoshi, “Chinese Astronomy: Development and Limiting Factors” in Nakayama, S. and Sivin, N. (eds.), Chinese Science (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1973), pp. 91–103Google Scholar. For recent discoveries of star charts, KK: 1965 (2), pp. 80–90; 1975 (1), pp. 58–61; 1975 (3), pp. 153–57; WW: 1974 (11), PP. 28–39; 1974 (12), pp. 56–60; 1975 (8), pp. 41–44.

99 For cartographic background: Needham (n. 97 above), pp. 525–90. The new maps found from Ma-wang-tui tomb no. 3 are described in WW, 1975 (2), pp. 35–48; KK, 1975 (2), pp. 80–90.

100 KK, 1972 (3), pp. 49–53; WW: 1972 (6), pp. 47–60; 1973 (12), pp. 18–31.

101 KK, 1972(6), pp. 53–58.

102 Note 3 above, pp. 137–43.

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