Abstract
In 2006, Peter Ucko and I visited over ten universities in the People’s Republic of China, at which archaeology was offered as a degree course. We met with staff and students from each Department of Archaeology and held interviews to find out about their experiences, expectations, and ideas regarding the nature and practice of archaeology. Staff and students were interviewed separately in order to encourage people to speak openly. In addition, interviews were held with the directors and archaeologists of several archaeological institutes in the provinces/regions. This paper is one chapter of the book that Peter Ucko and I had proposed to write together, before his death.
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Titles usually follow authors’ names. But, for a groups of articles published in Kaogu and Wenwu in 1976, on “archaeology of workers and farmers”, which were clearly written by organized groups or editors themselves, I have put them under the name and date of the journal.
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This chapter is dedicated to Peter Ucko, 1938–2007. Peter was an extraordinary archaeologist with vision and character, who made a huge impact on the current thought and practice of archaeology. I am pleased to have benefited from his impact on my own intellectual development. Although Peter and I had planned to write up the results of our visit to China in 2006 in book form, it is now more likely that these will appear in article form, written either by myself or by Peter’s partner, Jane Hubert, who also travelled with us. I hope that Peter’s ideas and spirit will shine through in this article, though, of course, I take responsibility for any shortcomings and errors.
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Wang, T. (2011). “Public Archaeology” in China: A Preliminary Investigation. In: Okamura, K., Matsuda, A. (eds) New Perspectives in Global Public Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0341-8_4
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