Kwang-chih Chang
Archaeologist, Author
1931 – 2001
Who was Kwang-chih Chang?
Kwang-chih Chang, also known as K.C. Chang, was a Chinese/Taiwanese archaeologist and sinologist. He was a professor of archaeology at Harvard University, a Vice-President of the Academia Sinica and a curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He helped to bring modern, western methods of archaeology to the study of ancient Chinese history. He also introduced new discoveries in Chinese archaeology to western audiences by translating works from Chinese to English. He pioneered the study of Taiwanese archaeology, encouraged multi-disciplinal anthropological archaeological research, and urged archaeologists to conceive of East Asian prehistory as a pluralistic whole.
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- Born
- Apr 15, 1931
Beijing - Also known as
- K.C. Chang
- Guangzhi Zhang
- Nationality
- China
- Taiwan
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- National Taiwan University
- PhD, Harvard University
Archaeology
(1955 - 1960)
- Lived in
- Boston
( - 2001/01/03)
- Boston
- Died
- Jan 3, 2001
Boston
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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