Kwang-chih Chang, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Chinese archaeologist
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Place of Birth: Beijing, China
About Kwang-chih Chang
- Kwang-chih Chang (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Zhang GuangzhÃ; 1931 – January 3, 2001), commonly known as K.C.
- Chang, was a Chinese/Taiwanese-American archaeologist and sinologist.
- He was the John E.
- Hudson Professor of archaeology at Harvard University, 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 (China, Korea, and Japan) as a pluralistic whole.
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