Dong Zuobin

Chinese archaeologist (1895-1963) · Taiwan · On the map · Academics · Died at 68

Dong Zuobin or Tung Tso-pin (1895-1963) was a Chinese archaeologist. He was a leading authority on the oracle bone and turtle shell inscriptions of the Shang dynasty. In 1928, Dong supervised the first archaeological dig of Anyang, the Shang capital.

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Dong was a professor at National Taiwan University and director of the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica from 1950 to 1954. Dong's construction of a Shang chronology was his most important research achievement.

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