12 Facts About Kwang-chih Chang

Kwang-chih Chang, commonly known as K C Chang, was a Taiwanese-American archaeologist and sinologist.

Kwang-chih Chang was the John E Hudson Professor of archaeology at Harvard University, Vice-President of the Academia Sinica, and a curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Kwang-chih Chang helped to bring modern, western methods of archaeology to the study of ancient Chinese history.

Kwang-chih Chang introduced new discoveries in Chinese archaeology to western audiences by translating works from Chinese to English.

Kwang-chih Chang pioneered the study of Taiwanese archaeology, encouraged multi-disciplinal anthropological archaeological research, and urged archaeologists to conceive of East Asian prehistory as a pluralistic whole.

Kwang-chih Chang enrolled in National Taiwan University in 1950, where he studied anthropology and archaeology.

Kwang-chih Chang graduated in 1954 and moved to the United States to pursue his graduate studies at Harvard University.

Kwang-chih Chang began his teaching career in the Anthropology Department at Yale University and later became the chair of the department.

Kwang-chih Chang became a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1979 and the John E Hudson Professor of Archaeology at Harvard in 1984.

Kwang-chih Chang was a Vice-President of Taiwan's Academia Sinica from 1994 to 1996.

Kwang-chih Chang trained many students over the years including distinguished archaeologists such as Bruce Trigger, Richard J Pearson, and Choi Mong-lyong.

Kwang-chih Chang died on January 3,2001, in Boston, from complications due to Parkinson's disease.