Xia Nai
Chinese archaeologist
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Xia Nai's Degrees
- PhD Archaeology Peking University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Xia Nai was a pioneering Chinese archaeologist. He was born in Wenzhou, southern Zhejiang province. He was the second son of Xia Yuyi who was a wealthy farmer. Xia was given the first name of Guodong but later requested to be named Nai and styled himself as Ming when he became an intellectual upon secondary education. He majored in Economic History at Tsinghua University in Beijing , winning a scholarship to study abroad. On advice from his mentor Li Ji, he went to University College London and studied Egyptology, earning a doctorate that was finally awarded to him in 1946. In the meantime, he had returned to China joining the staff of the Central Museum and then in 1944 joining the Department of Archaeology of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica , becoming acting director in 1948. When the Institute moved to Taiwan in 1949, Xia remained in the mainland, teaching at Zhejiang University for a year before joining the Chinese Academy of Sciences, eventually becoming director of its Institute of Archaeology . Before his death, he was First Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences .
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