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SUMMARY:Holding up half the sky? Female scholars and their contributions t
 o Chinese archaeology - Anke Heine\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Rosie Crawford
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with International Womens' Day Event.\n\nThis
  event is in person but livestreamed free here: https://zoom.us/meeting/re
 gister/tJIkd-GuqDMpHdSEt5XRFSz5zH6iKXfuB86L\n\nAbstract:\nThe year 2021 ha
 s been declared the centenary anniversary of Chinese archaeology\, leading
  to a flood of talks\, conferences\, and publications on the history of th
 e discipline. The stories told there\, however\, and the scholars appearin
 g at related events\, are nearly exclusively male\, even though there were
  notable women among the earliest Chinese archaeologists and the number of
  female students in the field has increased dramatically over the years. T
 his talk provides an overview of the history of Chinese archaeology from t
 he perspective of women\, starting from the earliest pioneers during the f
 irst half of the 20th century\, then moving on to the Mao era when women w
 ere heralded as "holding up half the sky"\, the rebuilding of research and
  university education after the Cultural Revolution\, and finally the situ
 ation of female scholars during the boom in archaeology from the 1990s to 
 the present. Combining statistics on gender disparities in archaeological 
 departments at universities and research institutions with individual stor
 ies\, this presentation aims to identify broad patterns but also highlight
  individual achievements and struggles and their context\, ending with som
 e speculations on how the situation of women in archaeology and society in
  China at large may be moving.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research\, D
 owning Site
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