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Exploring China's Past: New Discoveries and Studies in Art & Archaeology, Roderick Whitfield and Wang Tao, trans and eds

Saffron Books' International Series on Archaeology and Art ISSN 1740-312X

ISBN 1-872843-20-4 | Softback | 287mm [h] x 210mm [w] | 286pp, more than 170 b&w illustrations

Series Editors Roderick Whitfield and Wang Tao

Exploring China's Past: New Discoveries and Studies in Art and Archaeology responds to a current need. Students of Chinese art and archaeology in the West face two major hurdles: the lack of a general overview of current developments in Chinese archaeology, and the daunting amount of material published only in Chinese. The book provides a useful means of overcoming both problems and features carefully chosen and edited contributions by leading scholars in the field from China, Japan, Europe and the United States.

The essays cover the principal themes of current archaeological debate and practice in China, such as the question of the origins of Chinese civilisation, new trends in theory, and the history and methodology of studying Chinese archaeology and art in the West.

Many of the important archaeological discoveries of the last decade, including all 50 of the sites officially designated to be of national importance, are introduced and discussed here.

Publication of the volume was part-funded by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taiwan.

Table of Contents

• • Sarah Allan, Burlington North Professor of Asian Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
  • Chen Fangmei, Curator of Ancient Bronzes, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Chen Xiandan, Deputy Director, Sichuan Provincial Museum, Chengdu, China
  • Duan Yu, Deputy Director, Institute of History, Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, Chengdu, China
  • Guo Dashun, Honorary Director, Liaoning Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Shenyang, China
  • Li Boqian, Professor, Head of Department of Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing, China
  • Li Kunsheng, Director, Yunnan Provincial Museum, Kunming, China
  • Li Xinwei, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
  • Mou Yongkang, Research Fellow, Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Hangzhou, China
  • Okamura Hidenori, Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • Ren Shinan, Research Fellow, former Director, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
  • Filippo Salviati, Lecturer in Art and Archaeology, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Rome 'La Sapienza,' Rome, Italy
  • Su Bingqi, former Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
  • Tang Jigen, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
  • Robert Thorp, Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University, St Louis, USA
  • Alain Thote, Head of Research Unit, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
  • Tu Cheng-sheng, Director, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Wang Tao, Lecturer in Chinese Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
  • Wang Xu, former Research Fellow, Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
  • Roderick Whitfield, Percival David Professor of Chinese and East Asian Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
  • Wu Ruzuo, Research Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
  • Xu Pingfang, Research Fellow, former Director, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
  • Yu Weichao, former Director, Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, China
  • Zhang Chi, Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing, China
  • Zou Heng, Professor, Department of Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Table of Contents

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