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Seventy years of study on ethnic paleography in China
This paper systematically presents the development process of studying ancient Chinese ethnic scripts over the past seven decades since the founding...
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Female Scholars and Their Contributions to Chinese Archaeology
Most China archaeologists known abroad tend to be male; however, women have long contributed significantly to archaeological practice in China and...
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Oracle Bone Inscriptions: Their First Appearance and Initial Reception in the Learned World
The oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang dynasty were known to learned circles in China and to a few European and American scholars for almost...
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Exploratory Period: Collection, Deciphering, and Paleographic Studies of the Inscribed Oracle Bones
I have, in the introductory chapter, summarized in a general way the circumstances in which the inscribed oracle bones first caught the attention of...
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Swimming Against the Tide: The Journey of a Bengali Archaeologist
In 1975, Debala Mitra was India’s first woman appointed Director-General of Archaeological Survey. Mitra was also the first woman archaeologist to...
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The Case for Jalul as Biblical Bezer
Tall Jalul is the largest tell in central Jordan. Its size and central location dominate the Madaba Plains, indicating that it was doubtless a site...
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Postwar Academic Working Conditions and Studies of the Anyang Finds
The immediate result of the unconditional surrender of the Japanese was naturally a general feeling of relief among the hard-pressed Chinese. But...
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“So How’s Your Childhood Going?” A Historian of Childhood Confronts Her Own Archive
This chapter is an experimental reflection on historical methods for reading child-produced sources found in the archive; it uses Albarrán’s own...
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Understanding Pressures to Archaeological Heritage in the Face of Climate Change: An Integrated Approach to Coastal-Zone Assessments in Ireland
Coastal heritage and archaeological sites are part of a complex system of socioenvironmental processes whose conditions are placed at risk from...
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Genealogy, Chên-Jên and Some Aspects of Kinship
The genealogical chart reproduced in Fig. 13.1 is translated from Tung Tso-pin’s 1952 compilation, with some omissions of attached details.1 It is...
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Rehistoric Remains and Traditional Accounts of Ancient China
The remaining chapters of this book will give a brief summary of the various special studies of the Anyang finds up to the present time. It may be...
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Field Method as Demonstrated by Western Geologists, Paleontologists, and Archaeologists in China in the Early Twentieth Century
This chapter is designed to give a general explanation of how Western learning in conjunction with traditional Chinese cultivation of antiquarian...
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Ritual Architecture, Sacrificial Vessels, and Characters
Ritual architecture, sacrificial vessels, and characters are the features and essential parts of China’s un-fractured civilization of 5000 years....
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Differential Mode of Justice
In the discussion above, I have divided the authority to solve disputes in rural community into four types. Among the four types, there are the...
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An Unforgettable Distressing History—The Stolen Course of the Dunhuang Documents
Our motherland is an excellent country with a long history and ancient civilization. During the historical development, Chinese people of different...
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Linguistic Dilemmas: Communal Vernacular in Transition
The chapter focuses on the linguistic dilemmas faced by Soqotrans as an indigenous speech community under the Yemeni state’s deliberate absence of a...
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Discipline and (Academic) Tribe: Humanities and the Social Sciences in Italy
In Italy, the social sciences and humanities (SSH) have been constrained by a strong state regulation of academic recruitment and disciplinary...