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Interviews with Li Xueqin: The Life of a Chinese Historian: Part Two

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2014

Tao Wang 汪濤*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Chinese Works of Art, Sotheby's, 1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, wangtao48@me.com

Extract

The following interview with Li Xueqin took place at his home in the Tsinghua University campus on June 5, 2012. In the early 1980s, I was a graduate student at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and I first became acquainted with Li when he was on a visit to SOAS. My interview began with questions about Li's experiences travelling to the West soon after China first opened up and his contributions towards building a bridge between the Chinese and Western academic communities and his.

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22. Xueqin, Li, Wenxin, Qi, Lan, Ai, Yingguo suocang jiaguji; Ruidian Sidegeermo Yuandong Guwu Bowuguan cang jiagu wenzi 瑞典斯德哥爾摩遠東古物博物館藏甲骨文字 (Beijing: Zhonghua, 1999)Google Scholar.

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24. Many of these were later collected and published in Xueqin, Li, Sihai xun zhen 四海尋珍 (Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 1998)Google Scholar.

25. Dunhuang Manuscripts in British Collections: Chinese texts other than Buddhist Scriptures, 14 volumes (Chengdu: Sichuan People's Publishing House, 19901997 Google Scholar; Chinese title: Yingcang Dunhuang Wenxian: Hanwen Fojing Yiwai Bufen 英藏敦煌文献: 漢文佛經以外部分). On the British side, these exchanges were funded by the British Council and the Sino-British Fellowship Trust.

26. The Wonder of Chinese Bronzes (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1980)Google Scholar, revised as Chinese Bronzes: A General Introduction (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1995)Google Scholar.

27. See Part One of these interviews.

28. Shang, Xia Duandai, Zhou Zu, Gongeheng Zhuanjia 夏商周斷代工程專家組 ed. Xia Shang Zhou duandai gongcheng 1996–2000 nian jieduan chengguo baogao: jianben 夏商周斷代工程 1996–2000 年階段成果報告: 簡本 (Beijing: Shijie tushu, 2000)Google Scholar. Some of Li Xueqin's own researeh on ehronologieal problems may be found in his Zouchu yigu shidai; Xueqin, Li, Xia Shang Zhou niandaixue zaji 夏商周年代學札記 (Shenyang: Liaoning University Press, 1999)Google Scholar; and Xueqin, Li, “The Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Projeet: Methodology and Results,” Journal of East Asian Archaeology 4 (2002): 321333 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

29. See Lee, Yun Kuen, “Building the Chronology of Early Chinese History,” Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific 41.1 (2002), 1542 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Shaughnessy, Edward L., “Chronologies of Aneient China: A Critique of the ‘Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Projeet’” in Ho, Clara Wing-ehung, Windows on the Chinese World: Reflections by Five Historians (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2009), 1528 Google Scholar.

30. The Academia Siniea (Zhongyang yanjiuyuan 中央研究院), whieh is the forerunner of the Chinese Academy of Seienees, is now based in Taiwan.