Yang Jianhua

Yang Jianhua (born 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.

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.

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. 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