1. Dong Zuobin or Tung Tso-pin was a Chinese archaeologist.
14 Facts About Dong Zuobin
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Dong Zuobin was a leading authority on the oracle bone and turtle shell inscriptions of the Shang dynasty.
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In 1928, Dong supervised the first archaeological dig of Anyang, the Shang capital.
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Dong Zuobin was a professor at National Taiwan University and director of the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica from 1950 to 1954.
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Dong Zuobin was born 20 March 1895 to a shopkeeper's family in Nanyang in southern Henan Province.
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Dong Zuobin's talent for calligraphy and writing were already noticed when he was a child.
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In 1922, Dong Zuobin went to Beijing to audit classes at Peking University and enrolled the following year.
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Dong Zuobin became a professor at National Zhongshan University in Guangzhou in 1927.
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Dong Zuobin visited Anyang in the summer of 1928 and found that villagers were still digging up oracle bones and shells and selling them, as they had been since around 1895.
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Dong Zuobin's university approved the dig and he supervised fieldwork in October 1928.
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Dong Zuobin accepted an invitation to lecture on oracle bone inscriptions in the United States in January 1947.
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Dong Zuobin lectured at both University of Chicago and at Yale.
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Dong Zuobin returned to China in late 1948 and immediately began work on evacuating his department to Taiwan.
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Dong Zuobin worked out the dates of individual reigns and the rounds of ancestral sacrifice.