{"title":"Developments in the Scientific Study of Nationality Languages in the Thirty-five Years Since Our Nation Was Founded","authors":"Fu Maoji","doi":"10.2753/CSA0009-4625210168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/CSA0009-4625210168","url":null,"abstract":"In the old society, there were some minority nationality scholars who conducted investigations into their own and other nationalities' languages, publishing dictionaries, grammars, and orthographies. There were also some Han nationality scholars as well as foreign scholars who likewise conducted research on certain nationality languages and published dictionaries, grammars, and descriptive works. It was only after the founding of New China that universities started large-scale training of minority research workers for minority linguistics scientific research, including training many minority science and research workers; conducting large-scale general surveys on the minority languages of the whole country; proposing dialectal divisions for languages based on the results of their research and investigation; and helping to design writing systems for those nationalities that had requested such help. This work could only be done after the founding of the New China. The socialist system and the party's policie...","PeriodicalId":330527,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology in China","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132407007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Issues in Archaeological Typology","authors":"Su Bingqi","doi":"10.2753/CSA0009-4625200468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/CSA0009-4625200468","url":null,"abstract":"1. The establishment of the systematic structure of modern archaeology as an academic discipline with field archaeology as its foundation took place within a short few decades from the last half of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":330527,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology in China","volume":"69 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132359601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Scope and Function of Anthropology","authors":"Liang Zhaotao","doi":"10.2753/CSA0009-4625200433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/CSA0009-4625200433","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the world, every country, school of thought, and scholar has its own definition of \"anthropology.\" The simplest, however, and the one most broadly acknowledged, is that it is \"the science of the study of Man.\" Nevertheless, there are just too many sciences that are involved in the study of people, such as medical science, biology, history, economics, and sociology, and all are in one way or another studies of human beings. Moreover, each field of science has its own scientific system [of inquiry]. If anthropology is to be so elective and all-inclusive, then it is inevitable that it would become tantamount to not having anthropology at all. Moreover, such an all-embracing definition would perhaps not be acceptable to scholars in those many fields and sciences. Therefore, we need to be clear on the connotations of anthropology itself, on the objectives and subject matter of its study, its scope, and where its emphases lie. Otherwise we will create confusion and perhaps even find ourselves in a si...","PeriodicalId":330527,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology in China","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127064488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Chinese People Need Anthropology","authors":"C. Guoqiang","doi":"10.2753/CSA0009-4625200443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/CSA0009-4625200443","url":null,"abstract":"Anthropology is an important discipline. It is a discipline that belongs to the natural sciences and also to the social sciences. In our country, for many years anthropology has been mistakenly understood to be just a natural science, that is, as physical anthropology, or was even further confined to paleoanthropology, the discipline that studies human fossils. In fact, prior to Liberation, anthropological studies in our country included both physical and cultural anthropology, and anthropology was respected as a very important social science whose objects, content, and materials of study were extremely rich and abundant. In recent years in foreign countries there has been an increasingly intimate link between the science of anthropology and the social life of the people. The scope of the study of anthropology has been continuously expanded and a number of derivative branch sciences have been developed. All this indicates that anthropology occupies a most significant place in the realm of science. In the ...","PeriodicalId":330527,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology in China","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124134998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Is Archaeology?","authors":"Xia Nai","doi":"10.2753/CSA0009-4625200458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/CSA0009-4625200458","url":null,"abstract":"Ancient things are the subject of study of archaeology, but as a scientific discipline, archaeology is a very new field. Its origins, though, are very early because once a society has developed to a certain stage, and once the ideas and consciousness of its members have developed to a certain stage, they generate an interest in their own historical past and in the relics and traces left behind by their ancient ancestors. For all sorts of reasons they collect and investigate ancient objects and traces of ancient life, and some even go further to record their findings and explore their meaning, undertaking specific research on individual items. All this, however, merely foreshadows archaeology; it is not yet what scholastic circles today would call scientific, modern archaeology.","PeriodicalId":330527,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology in China","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114978972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}