Zhang Changshou

Zhang Changshou (; 6 May 1929 – 30 January 2020) was a Chinese archaeologist who served as vice director of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and an honorary member of the CASS.

Life and career Zhang was born 6 May 1929 in Shanghai, Republic of China. He studied in Christian missionary schools as a child and entered St. John's University, Shanghai in 1948. He transferred to Yenching University in Beijing in 1950, graduating in July 1952 with a degree in history. He taught at Liancheng Secondary School (连成中学), an affiliated school of Tsinghua University, for the next four years. He served as vice director of the Institute of Archaeology from July 1985 to May 1988. He retired in May 1989, but continued to publish for decades afterwards.

He died on 30 January 2020 at Tiantan Hospital in Beijing, aged 90. His excavation report of the Zhangjiapo cemetery, published in 1999, won the first prize of the Outstanding Research Award of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2002.

Major works Excavation reports Excavation Report of Fengxi (沣西发掘报告, 1962), co-editor The Excavation of Zhangjiapo Western Zhou Tombs of Chang'an in 1967 (1967年长安张家坡西周墓葬的发掘, 1980) Primitive Cultural Remains at Chagou in Shilou, Shanxi (山西石楼岔沟原始文化遗存, 1985) Zhangjiapo Western Zhou Cemetery (张家坡西周墓地, 1999), editor

Other books Archaeological Discoveries of New China (新中国的考古收获, 1961), co-editor Recent Archaeological Discoveries in the Peopleʼs Republic of China (新中国的考古发现和研究, 1984), co-editor Encyclopedia of China—Archaeology (中国大百科全书•考古学, 1986), co-editor Research on the Periodization of Western Zhou Bronzes (西周青铜器分期断代研究, 1999), with Wang Shimin 王世民 and Chen Gongrou 陈公柔 Chinese Archaeology—Zhou Dynasty (中国考古学·两周卷, 2004), editor Western Zhou Jades of Zhangjiapo (张家坡西周玉器, 2007), editor Collected Papers on Shang and Zhou Archaeology (商周考古论集, 2007): collection of 35 papers published before 2000 Wen You's Luozhaotang Collection of Bronze Rubbings (闻宥落照堂藏青铜器拓本, 2010), with Wen You

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