• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Aspects de l’archéologie chinoise aujourd’hui
  • Contributor: Elisseeff, Danielle [Author]
  • Published in: Histoire de l'art ; Vol. 40-41, n° 1, pp. 3-9
  • Language: French
  • DOI: 10.3406/hista.1998.2791
  • ISSN: 0992-2059
  • Keywords: China, 20th century ; archeology ; excavations ; national identity ; archeology and politics ; Chinese « litterati » ; the Elite. ; article
  • Description: Various Aspects of Contemporary Chinese Archeology. Since the 11th century, for Chinese scholars, it has been « in good taste » to profess an interest in ancient remains, discovered during their life time, that might confirm the colonial texts on which the legitimacy of the State was based. It is this tradition that, at the end of the 19th century, served to define the basis of modern Chinese archeology, which was strongly touched by outside influences that brought into play certain new questions, such as that of the origins of humanity. From the beginning of the Chinese Republics (1912), numerous Chinese intellectuals passionately embraced this new science which offered them the hope of being able to contribute to the definition of a national identity and, thus, to place China in a national, rather than regional context. In 1949, the foundation of the Peoples’ Republic of China gave this movement new dimensions that the Second World War had suppressed. Today, as the Marxist elite have been removed from the foreground, the accent has been placed on the importance of the different regions of China,
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