Chang, Kwang-chih

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Name (Latin)
Chang, Kwang-chih
Other forms of name
Chang, Kuang-chih
Chang, K. C. (Kwang-chih)
Zhang, Guangzhi, 1931-2001
张光直, 1931-2001
張光直, 1931-2001
Date of birth
1931-04-15
Date of death
2001-01-03
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 24615345
Wikidata: Q6450162
Library of congress: n 50000864
Sources of Information
  • Fan shu ren de gu shi, 1999:t.p. (Zhang Guangzhi)
  • His The archaeology of ancient China. 1963.
  • Information from 678 field, converted Nov. 18, 2014(Yale Univ.; b. Apr. 15, 1931)
  • New York times, Jan. 16, 2001(Kwang-Chih Chang, Harvard anthropologist who specialized in Chinese civilization of the Bronze Age, d. Jan. 3 in Boston)
  • OCLC #41662162, July 24, 2020(access point: Chang, Kwang-chih; usage: 張光直 = Zhang Guangzhi)
  • LCN note: b. 1931.

Wikipedia description:

Kwang-chih Chang (Chinese: 張光直; April 15, 1931 – January 3, 2001), commonly known as K. C. Chang, was a Taiwanese anthropologist, archaeologist, and sinologist who was the John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology at Harvard University. He also served as the vice-president of Academia Sinica and as 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 (China, Korea, and Japan) as a pluralistic whole.

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