Li Xueqin

Li Xueqin ( Chinese  李學勤  /  李学勤 , Pinyin Lǐ Xuéqín , W.-G. Li Hsüeh-ch'in ; born March 28, 1933 in Beijing ; † February 24, 2019 ) was a Chinese scholar and historian .

Life

He was director of the History Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, director of the Research Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies of Qinghua University , director of the Institute of International Sinology (ibid.), Director of the China Association for Pre-Qin History and director of the newly established project to research the ancient Chinese civilization, known as the " Periodization Project of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties " ( Chinese  夏商周 断 代 工程 , Pinyin Xìa Shāng Zhōu Duàndài Gōngchéng , English Xia Shang Zhou Chronology Project ) is known.

Li has worked on Chinese epigraphy , archeology and history, including the history of ideas. An edition of his "Collected Works" was published in 2005 in Shanghai .

He was a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference .

Works (selection)

• Eastern Zhou and Qin civilizations. Yale University Press, New Haven et al. a. 1985, ISBN 0-300-03286-2 (Early Chinese civilizations series) (Translated from Chinese)
• The wonder of Chinese bronzes. Foreign Languages ​​Press, Beijing 1980.
• Li Xueqin (2002): The Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project . In: Journal of East Asian Archeology , 4, pp. 321-333
• L. Xueqin, G. Harbottle, J. Zhang, C. Wang: The earliest writing? Sign use in the seventh millennium BC at Jiahu, Henan Province, China . In: Antiquity 77 (295), 2003, pp. 31-45.
• The Lost Bamboo and Silk Texts and the Academic History. Jiangxi Education Publishing House, Nanchang 2001, ISBN 7-5392-3606-X (chin.)
• Liu Xueqin wenji (Collected Works of Liu Xueqin). Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2005

Web links

• Short biography Department of History, Tsinghua University
• Short biography
• The Zhouyi and Chinese culture (talk)