ZHANG ZHONGPEI 張忠培 (1934–2017)

Abstract

Abstract Professor Zhang Zhongpei was a field archeologist, a Professor of archaeology at Jilin University, and a highly valued Ph.D. director of scores of students. He served in many influential capacities including as the Director of the Palace Museum in Beijing. Among archaeologists he is known through his many publications on regional cultures and through his twenty-year membership on the State Bureau of Cultural Relics which granted permits for archaeological projects that reshaped our understanding of the emergence of Chinese civilization. Zhang Zhongpei passed away at the age of eighty-three on July 3, 2017 in Beijing. 張忠培教授為田野考古學家，吉林大學考古學教授，亦為博士生導師，桃李滿天下。 先生曾任多項具有影響力的職位，包括北京故宮博物院院長，故宮研究院名譽院長，以及故宮博物院學術委員會副主任委員等職。身為考古學家，先生著作等身，並在擔任國家文物局專家組 資深成員二十年，負責授予考古項目的許可證。他多年來為田野考古發展，多所規劃，厥功至偉。先生於 2017 年 7 月 3 日在北京，因癌症逝世，享年 83 歲。