More than 3,000 years ago, two cities arose on opposite sides of China’s Huan River, only to be abandoned within a few hundred years.On Wednesday, October 26, a scholar of Chinese archaeology will visit Randolph College to expound on the history of those cities and the role that writing played in the urbanization of China.
Haicheng Wang, a professor from the University of Washington in Seattle, will deliver his lecture “Writing and the City in Early China” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 26, in the H.G. Leggett Building, Room 537.
One of the two cities he will discuss, Yinxu, served as the last capital of the Shang dynasty.
The lecture is presented by the Lynchburg Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Randolph College Classics Department.
Wang holds degrees from Princeton University (Ph.D.), Peking University (M.A.), and Yantai University (B.A.). His current research is on the invention of writing and state formation in early China, and the Zhou bells and Chinese Museum before Confucius.
