Kwang-chih Chang
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Kwang-chih Chang (Chinese: 張光直; pinyin: Zhāng Guāngzhí; Wade–Giles: Chang¹ Kuang¹-chih²; 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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1931 Beijing, Republic of China
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2001 (aged 69)
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