Anyang

Li Chi (1896–1979), archaeologist, anthropologist and the founder of Chinese archaeology, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1923. After being associated briefly with the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., he returned to China and taught for a short time. In 1928, he became Director of Archaeology at the Academia Sinica, the Chinese national research organization. Li Chi’s leadership in the archaeological excavations of Hsi-yin Tsun, Anyang and Chang-tzu-yai influenced the development of Chinese archaeology in the latter part of the 20th century.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions: Their First Appearance and Initial Reception in the Learned World.- Exploratory Period: Collection, Deciphering, and Paleographic Studies of the Inscribed Oracle Bones.- Field Method: As Demonstrated by Western Geologists, Paleontologists, and Archaeologists in China in the Early Twentieth Century.- Early Period of Planned Digging in Anyang.- The Royal Tombs: Their Discovery and Systematic Excavation.- Last Three Seasons of Field Work in Hsiao-t’un before World War II.- Wartime Efforts to Continue the Anyang Research.- Postwar Academic Working Conditions and Studies of the Anyang Finds.- Prehistoric Remains and Traditional Accounts of Ancient China.- Architecture: Structural Remains and Suggested Reconstructions of Surface Buildings.- The Economy: Agriculture and Artifacts.- Decorative Art of the Yin-Shang Dynasty.- Genealogy, Chên-jên and Some Aspects of Kinship.- Worship of Ancestors and Other Spirits.- Notes on the Physical Anthropology of the Yin-Shang Population.