﻿ARCHEOLOGY 
  IN 
  CHINA 
  ^ 
  

  

  By 
  Liang 
  Chi-Chao 
  

  

  On 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  visit 
  of 
  His 
  Roj^al 
  Highness, 
  the 
  distinguished 
  

   Crown 
  Prince 
  of 
  Sweden, 
  who 
  is 
  the 
  president 
  of 
  the 
  International 
  

   Association 
  of 
  Archeology, 
  my 
  colleagues 
  have 
  asked 
  me 
  to 
  give, 
  as 
  

   an 
  expression 
  of 
  our 
  high 
  esteem 
  and 
  welcome, 
  a 
  brief 
  survey 
  of 
  

   the 
  past 
  and 
  future 
  of 
  Chinese 
  archeology. 
  

  

  I 
  shall 
  try 
  therefore, 
  though 
  with 
  diffidence, 
  to 
  say 
  a 
  few 
  words 
  

   on 
  this 
  subject. 
  I 
  am, 
  however, 
  aware 
  that 
  there 
  may 
  be 
  mistakes 
  

   and 
  oversights, 
  for 
  which 
  I 
  ask 
  your 
  generous 
  indulgence 
  and 
  to 
  

   which 
  I 
  invite 
  your 
  criticism. 
  

  

  Archeology 
  became 
  a 
  special 
  branch 
  of 
  study 
  in 
  the 
  Sung 
  dynasty, 
  

   which 
  corresponds 
  to 
  the 
  tenth 
  and 
  eleventh 
  centuries. 
  By 
  that 
  time 
  

   printing 
  had 
  already 
  been 
  invented 
  in 
  China 
  and 
  had 
  made 
  great 
  

   progress. 
  Another 
  special 
  art, 
  that 
  of 
  making 
  rubbings 
  of 
  inscrip- 
  

   tions, 
  had 
  already 
  been 
  invented 
  before 
  the 
  Sung 
  dynasty. 
  These 
  two 
  

   arts 
  greatly 
  facilitated 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  antiquities 
  by 
  scholars, 
  and 
  the 
  

   knowledge 
  gained 
  by 
  them 
  was 
  thus 
  given 
  wider 
  circulation, 
  with 
  

   the 
  result 
  that 
  several 
  of 
  the 
  well-known 
  works 
  written 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  

   have 
  come 
  down 
  to 
  the 
  present. 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  a 
  work 
  entitled 
  " 
  Chi 
  Ku 
  Lu," 
  by 
  Ouyang 
  Hsiu, 
  a 
  great 
  

   statesman 
  and 
  famous 
  literary 
  figure. 
  This 
  book 
  was 
  written 
  in 
  

   1061. 
  It 
  contains 
  rubbings 
  of 
  inscriptions 
  on 
  bronzes 
  and 
  stones 
  

   from 
  his 
  own 
  collections 
  and 
  those 
  seen 
  by 
  him, 
  with 
  commentaries. 
  

  

  Chao 
  Ming-Ch'eng 
  and 
  his 
  wife, 
  Li 
  Ch'ing-Chao, 
  who 
  was, 
  by 
  

   the 
  way, 
  the 
  first 
  woman 
  to 
  compose 
  in 
  that 
  form 
  of 
  verse 
  which 
  we 
  

   call 
  Tsu, 
  Avrote 
  in 
  collaboration 
  a 
  work 
  called 
  " 
  Chin 
  Shih 
  Lu." 
  The 
  

   nature 
  and 
  arrangement 
  of 
  this 
  book 
  are 
  similar 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  Ouyang 
  

   Hsiu, 
  but 
  the 
  distinguished 
  couple 
  cast 
  their 
  net 
  much 
  wider. 
  

  

  Hseuh 
  Sheng-Kung 
  wrote 
  a 
  book 
  entitled 
  " 
  Chung 
  Ting 
  I 
  Chi 
  

   K'uan 
  Shih." 
  This 
  book 
  differs 
  from 
  the 
  two 
  preceding 
  ones 
  in 
  that 
  

   it 
  confines 
  itself 
  to 
  inscriptions 
  on 
  bells 
  and 
  tripods. 
  In 
  those 
  works 
  

   inscriptions 
  on 
  bells 
  and 
  tripods 
  are 
  few, 
  while 
  inscriptions 
  on 
  stones 
  

  

  1 
  An 
  address 
  delivered 
  before 
  the 
  joint 
  meeting 
  lield 
  on 
  Oct. 
  26, 
  1920, 
  by 
  the 
  Geological 
  

   Society 
  of 
  China, 
  the 
  Teking 
  Society 
  of 
  Natural 
  History, 
  and 
  the 
  Poking 
  Union 
  Medical 
  

   College, 
  in 
  honor 
  of 
  the 
  visit 
  of 
  His 
  Royal 
  Highness, 
  the 
  Crown 
  Prince 
  of 
  Sweden. 
  

  

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