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Establishing the Chinese archaeological school: Su Bingqi and contemporary Chinese archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Wang Tao
Wang Tao*
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School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, England. E-mail: wt@soas.ac.uk
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Most of what is heard in the West of Chinese archaeology is about the physical stuff — the astonishing string of major finds; some, like soldiers from the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor's tumulus, have been exhibited outside China. All archaeological material is excavated, described and explained by reference to some frame of ideas. This essay on the thinking of a leading Chinese archaeologist of our day, Su Bingqi, is accompanied by an article of his in translation.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 271 , March 1997 , pp. 31 - 36
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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