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(1892–1978)
President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1950 until his death in 1978 and Chinese Minister for Culture, Guo Moruo (or Kuo Mo-jo) was a famous writer, a poet, a cofounder of the literary Creation Society, and a radical who had communist leanings. In 1927 he escaped from china and Chiang Kai-shek’s anticommunism to Japan, where he lived in exile for ten years. During his exile he wrote several influential books, A Study of Ancient Chinese Society (1930), A General Outline of Bronze Inscriptions of the Western and Eastern Chou Dynasties (1932), A General Study of Oracle Inscriptions (1933), and An Illustrated Catalogue of Bronze Inscriptions of the Western and Eastern Chou Dynasties (1934), which established him as an important scholar of ancient China and some of which remain indispensable reading. Guo was not a field archaeologist, but his first book A Study of Ancient Chinese Society (1930) was the first attempt to write a Marxist history of China and was influential in archaeological circles. Both Guo’s periodization of ancient Chinese history and production as the basis of society became fundamental to the writing of history and archaeology after 1949, when Marxism became the national and party doctrine.
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