Kwang-Chih Chang, an anthropologist and archaeologist from China. He is a specialist in Far East Asian prehistory. Chang was born in Beijing, China. In 1950, he enrolled as a freshman student in the Department of Anthropology at National Taiwan University. Four years later, he completed a bachelor thesis on Lungshan Culture. Chang moved to the United States in 1955.He had the best training opportunity to study anthropology and earned a Ph.D. program at Harvard University. Later, he taught at both Yale University and Harvard from 1961 to 1977
Chang had developed a strong case for the primary of the social dimension in the study of material culture traits in 1958. In 1963, Yale University Press agreed to publish his fist books The Archaeology of Ancient China that was frequently revised. It was a standard text on early China that delved into the details of the archeology of early China. He believes Chinese archaeology in current scholarly literature often associates itself unilaterally with technology or the fine Arts (Chang 5).
As a specialist, he gained his knowledge through and made good judgments using available data. Afterwards, he published The Chinese Bronze Age, and Shang Civilization in 1980. He independently proposed Chinese interaction sphere in 1986. He did more justice than the unlined view to the extraordinary richness of archaeological discoveries all over China during last four decades (Murray 503). He interested in carrying on his scientific work as an Anthropologist, in order to contribute to Chinas prehistory.
The Biography. Chang, Kwang-Chih. Biography.com 13, Feb. 2000.
Chang, Kwang-Chih. The Archaeology of Ancient China. Yale University Press: 1963.
Murray, Tim. Encyclopedia of Archaeology, The Great Archaeologists. ABC-CLIO, Inc.: 1999.
Written by: Yuan Yuan Li