Yang Jianhua

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Yang Jianhua
杨建华
Born1955 (1955)
Cambridge University
University of Pittsburgh
Thesis The Formation of the Northern China Cultural Belt in the Spring and Autumn to Warring States Period  (2001)
Doctoral advisorLin Yun

Yang Jianhua

Mainland Chinese scholars to research world archaeology, including Mesopotamia and Siberia.[1][2]

Education

Yang completed her undergraduate degree in archaeology at

during the mid- to late 1st millennium BCE. While earlier studies referred to this period generically as Eastern Zhou, Yang created a detailed
periodisation for the different regions spanning Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, and Ningxia provinces. Her thesis was published in 2004.[2]

Career

After completing her undergraduate degree in 1978, Yang taught archaeology at Jilin University. She became associate professor in 1991 and full professor in 1996. Yang was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge in 1993 and 2002, as well as at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007.[1]

In 2018, Yang and co-authors Shao Huiqiu and Pan Ling received the Golden Tripod Award of the Society for Chinese Archaeology for their book The Metal Road of the Eastern Eurasian Steppe.[3] The English translation was published in 2020.

Yang was a member of the State Council's 7th Academic Consultative Committee (Chinese: 国务院第七届学科评议组) for archaeology. She has been a committee member for the Research Centre for Foreign Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 2017.</ref=shao>

Selected publications

Chinese

English

Notes

  1. ^ In this Chinese name, the family name is Yang.

References

  1. ^ a b Cao Hongbo 蔡鸿博, ed. (10 March 2020). "致敬最美的她——文博界的女学者们" [Paying respects to those who are most beautiful: Female scholars of cultural heritage and museum studies]. Wangyi. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b "心无旁骛踏实地,守得云开见月明——杨建华教授访谈" [Keep your feet on the ground with no distractions, after rain there's always a rainbow: An interview with Professor Yang Jianhua]. Chinese Archaeology (in Chinese). 12 January 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  3. ^ Shao Huiqiu; Yang Jianhua (2019). "执着与坚守:杨建华教授访谈录" [Perserverance and persistance: transcript of Professor Yang Jianhua's interview]. Cultural Relics in Southern China (in Chinese) (1): 23–43.

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