David Keightley
Encyclopedia
David N. Keightley is an American sinologist, historian
, and Professor Emeritus, Department of History, at University of California, Berkeley
.
He graduated from Columbia University
with a PhD.
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, and Professor Emeritus, Department of History, at University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
.
He graduated from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
with a PhD.
Works
- "A Measure of Man in Early China: In Search of the Neolithic Inch", Chinese Science, 12, 1995
- "The Religious Commitment: Shang Theology and the Genesis of Chinese Political Culture", History of Religions, Vol. 17, No. 3/4, (Feb. - May, 1978), pp. 211–225
- Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978 ISBN 9780520029699; 2d ed. and paperback, 1985. ISBN 9780520054554
- The Origins of Chinese Civilization. Editors David N. Keightley, Noel Barnard, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. ISBN 9780520042292
- The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space, and Community in Late Shang China (ca. 1200-1045 B.C.) Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 2000. ISBN 9781557290700
- "Clean Hands and Shining Helmets", Religion and the authority of the past, Editor Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan Press, 1993, ISBN 9780472082599