Yang Jianhua Explained

Yang Jianhua
Native Name:杨建华
Native Name Lang:zh
Birth Date: 1955
Birth Place:Changchun, China
Nationality:Chinese
Field:Archaeology
Workplaces:Jilin University
Cambridge University
University of Pittsburgh
Alma Mater:Jilin University
Thesis Title:The Formation of the Northern China Cultural Belt in the Spring and Autumn to Warring States Period
Thesis Year:2001
Doctoral Advisor:Lin Yun
Known For:Scholar of Mesopotamian archaeology, Northern Zone archaeology

Yang Jianhua (b. 1955) is a Chinese archaeologist. She held the position of Professor of Archaeology at Jilin University from 1996 and is known as one of the first Mainland Chinese scholars to research world archaeology, including Mesopotamia and Siberia.

Education

Yang completed her undergraduate degree in archaeology at Jilin University in 1978 after which she remained at the university to teach. She completed her PhD in 2001 on the transformation from an agricultural to nomadic pastoralist economy in China's Northern Zone 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.[1]

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.[2]

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 for archaeology. She has been a committee member for the Research Centre for Foreign Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences since 2017.

Selected publications

Chinese

English

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 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. zh. 12 January 2017. Chinese Archaeology. 11 November 2022.
  2. Web site: 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. Cao Hongbo 蔡鸿博. Wangyi. 10 March 2020. 19 March 2021.
  3. 执着与坚守:杨建华教授访谈录. Perseverance and persistence: transcript of Professor Yang Jianhua's interview. zh. Shao Huiqiu. Yang Jianhua. Cultural Relics in Southern China. 1. 2019. 23–43.