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Soviet inspiration in Chinese archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Zhang Liangren
Zhang Liangren*
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School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, 229 Taibai Beilu, Xi'an, 710069, China (Email: xianjuman@gmail.com)
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On the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of China's Institute of Archaeology, the author looks back to its origins, and recalls a short period, now almost forgotten, of dynamic and fruitful collaboration with the archaeologists of Soviet Russia. Soviet intellectual aims in the 1950s had a profound and lasting influence on the development of Chinese archaeology, including the design of its institutions, its theoretical basis, its research agenda and its field methods. The new emphasis on ancient life beyond the elite and the study of social and economic process seems to pre-echo some of the themes of Anglo-American processual archaeology that was to follow a decade later.

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Soviet archaeologyChinese archaeologyMarxismbox excavation

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Antiquity , Volume 85 , Issue 329 , September 2011, pp. 1049 - 1059
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2011

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