David Keightley

David N. Keightley
Born (1932-10-25) October 25, 1932
London, England, United Kingdom
Citizenship American
Fields Chinese history
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Education Columbia University
Doctoral advisor Hans Bielenstein
Other academic advisors Burton Watson
Known for Studies of oracle bone script
Notable awards Guggenheim Fellowship (1978)
MacArthur Fellowship (1986)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 吉德煒
Simplified Chinese 吉德炜

David Noel Keightley (born October 25, 1932) is an American sinologist, historian, and scholar, and was for many years a professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2] Keightley is best known for his studies of Chinese oracle bones and oracle bone script.

Life and career

David N. Keightley was born on October 25, 1932, in London, England. He attended Columbia University as an undergraduate, then worked for 10 years at publishing companies in New York City.[3] He then lived in Taipei, Taiwan for two years where he studied Chinese at the Stanford Center (modern Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Study).[3] In 1967, Keightley returned to Columbia for doctoral study under the Swedish sinologist Hans Bielenstein. He received a Ph.D. in 1969 with a dissertation entitled "Public Work in Ancient China: A Study of Forced Labor in the Shang and Early Chou".

After receiving his Ph.D. in 1969, Keightley was selected to replace Woodbridge Bingham (19011986) as professor of East Asian history at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at Berkeley until his retirement. Keightley became one of the leading Western scholars of Chinese oracle bones, which contain the earliest known examples of Chinese writing, leading American sinologist Edward Shaughnessy to state that Keightley "has done more to introduce the depth and breadth of early China's oracle-bone divination to Western readers than any [other] scholar."[4]

Awards

Works

Books

Articles

Zhongguo wenhua yu Zhongguo zhexue tp lilt){fu Biltp IIfi 1988: 466-500. A second Chinese version, tr. by Chen Xingcan £, published as "Kaoguxue yu sixiang zhuangtai-Zhongguo de chuangjian 15* . . - ffilll l'J{].ll ." Huaxia kaogu. •t: J5 1993.1:97-108. *"Prehistory" and "The First Historical Dynasty: The Shang." The New Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropaedia (Chicago 1987) 16:62-67

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Reviews

»'.1111.l!J..*'¥ '.lt:)(?iJf . " Harvard journal of Asiatic Studies 42 (1982): 331-34. (Chinese translation published in Lishi jiaoxue 中國史研究動態 1981.11:62-63.)

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