17 Facts About David Keightley

David Keightley was a professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a published author covering the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the Chinese Bronze Age.

David Keightley was best known for his studies of Chinese oracle bones and oracle bone script.

David Keightley's work changed the way that many Sinologists viewed Shang dynasty history.

David N Keightley was born on October 25,1932, in London, England.

David Keightley graduated from Evanston Township High School, then attended Amherst College as an undergraduate student, graduating in 1953 with a B A in English with a minor in biochemistry.

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David Keightley then received a Fulbright Scholarship, which he used to study Medieval French at the University of Lille.

David Keightley received an M A in modern European history from New York University in 1956.

David Keightley then worked for several years at publishing companies in New York City and as a freelance writer before beginning his study of Chinese and Sinology.

David Keightley began his graduate study in East Asian history at Columbia University in 1962.

In 1965, David Keightley moved to Taipei, Taiwan where he studied Chinese for two years at the Stanford Center.

David Keightley then returned to the United States to complete his doctoral studies at Columbia under the Swedish Sinologist Hans Bielenstein and received a Ph.

David Keightley became one of the leading Western scholars of Chinese oracle bones, which contain the earliest known examples of Chinese writing.

David Keightley namely wrote "Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China".

David Keightley was best known for his work on Oracle Bones and their ability to tell the history of Shang China.

David Keightley delves into discussing the physical material in which the inscriptions were inscribed upon.

From his studies, David Keightley made ten volumes of oracle bone inscriptions that are still used to debate facts about the period of the Shang kings.

David Keightley dedicated his time and this research to improve the authenticity, accuracy, and the ability to reproduce these inscriptions.