Dr. Jiao Honored for Outstanding Scholarship in Asian Studies
Bishop Museum ’s Chairman of Anthropology, Tianlong Jiao, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2007 Philip and Eugenia Cho Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Asian Studies by the Cambria Press of Youngstown, New York. He is the first recipient of the award, which recognizes Dr. Jiao’s new book published by Cambria Press, The Neolithic of Southeast China: Cultural Transformation and Regional Interaction on the Coast.
Dr. Jiao recently curated Bishop Museum ’s presentation of Lost Maritime Cultures: China and the Pacific, an exhibition that featured the extraordinary archaeological discoveries found in southeast China over the past century. Dr. Jiao is a world-renowned expert in Chinese archaeology. He directed this international research project with cooperation from the government of the People’s Republic of China and the support of the Freeman Foundation. Dr. Jiao holds a Ph.D. and M. A. from Harvard University , and a B. A. from Peking University in China .
Since 1985, Dr. Jiao has directed or participated in more than twenty archaeological excavation projects in China . He is the author of Origins of Chinese Civilizations (Du Jinpeng, 1995) and served as editor of Lost Maritime Cultures: China and the Pacific published by Bishop Museum Press in 2007. He has also authored various articles on Chinese and Pacific archaeology.
For more information about The Neolithic of Southeast China, call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org. The book will be available in Shop Pacifica and other fine bookstores soon. The 286-page, hardcover book sells for $109.95 and is 6 x 9-inches.
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