Archaeological Discoveries in the People’s Republic of China and Their Contribution to the Understanding of Chinese History | Zendy

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Archaeological Discoveries in the People’s Republic of China and Their Contribution to the Understanding of Chinese History

Author(s) -

Xingcan Chen

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

bulletin of the history of archaeology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2047-6930

pISSN - 1062-4740

DOI - 10.5334/bha.19202

Subject(s) - history of china , history , china , ancient history , archaeology , classics

More than eight decades ago, the distinguished Chinese scholar HuShi (1891–1962) wrote an essay titled ‘My Views on Ancient History’, in which he said:My outlook regarding ancient history is, for the present, we shouldshorten the study of ancient history by two or three thousand years, and start ourresearches from the Book of Odes. When archaeology has become well developed, then wecan slowly extend [our understanding of ancient history before the Eastern Zhou dynasty,using excavated historical evidence. Today,over eighty years later, Chinese history before the Eastern Zhou dynasty has beensteadily reconstructed, step by step, from archaeological discoveries, without which,even the well-recognized deserved brilliance of ancient history, since the Eastern Zhoudynasty, would be dimmed

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