Basic Biographical Information
Su Bingqi 蘇秉琦 (1908–1997) was born in Gaoyang County, Hebei province, China, in 1908 (Wang 1997; Falkenhausen 1999). He studied history at Beiping Normal University from 1928 to 1934 before joining the archaeological team of the Society of Historical Studies (after 1936, the Institute) of the National Beiping Academy and excavating the Doujitai site in Baoji, Shaanxi province. After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Su was employed as a research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and later, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In 1952, he was appointed professor in the history department of Peking University, where he founded, and served as chair of, China’s first archaeology program. He was elected president of the Association for Chinese Archaeology in 1986, succeeding the former director Xia Nai (1910–1985).
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Su had a profound influence on modern Chinese...
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References
Hein, Anke. 2016. The problem of typology in Chinese archaeology. Early China 39: 1–32.
von Falkenhausen, Lothar. 1999. Su Bingqi. In Encyclopedia of archaeology: The great archaeologists I, ed. Tim Murray, 601–613. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
Wang, Tao. 1997. Establishing the Chinese archaeological school: Su Bingqi and contemporary Chinese archaeology. Antiquity 71: 31–39.
Yu, Weichao. 2001. Ershi shiji Zhongguo kaoguxue de yige lichengbei (a milestone of Chinese archaeology during the 20th century). In Su Binhqi yu dangdai Zhongguo kaoguxue (Su Bingqi and modern Chinese archaeology), ed. Su Bai, 3–9. Beijing: Kexue chubanshe.
Further Reading
Su, Bingqi. 1984. Su bingqi kaoguxue lunshu xuanji蘇秉琦考古學論述選集 (selection of archaeological writings by Su Bingqi). Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe.
Su, Bingqi. 1994. Huaren – long de chuanren – zhongguoren: Kaogu xungen ji 華人 – 龍的傳人 – 中國人:考古尋根記 (Hua people–descendants of the dragon–Chinese: An archaeological search for roots). Shenyang: Liaoning daxue chubanshe.
Su, Bingqi. 1997. Zhongguo wenming qiyuan xintan中國文明起源新探 (new investigation of the rise of Chinese civilization). Hong Kong: Shangwu yinshuguan.
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Wong, R. (2020). Su Bingqi. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_3375
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