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Did you know... that Li Xueqin, considered in China to be "the most important historian working today", never finished college?
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who was widely considered the most important Chinese historian of his time
he tested number one in the entrance examination of the electrical engineering department of the National Beiping High School of Industry — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.49.10.227 (talk) 23:20, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
In the 1950s, he systematically collated Shang dynasty oracle bones excavated from Yinxu, studied the events and historical geography from the oracle scripts, and identified oracle bones from the Western Zhou period. In the late 1950s, he studied the bronze inscriptions, pottery inscriptions, seals, coins, bamboo and wooden slips, and silk texts from the Warring States period, facilitating the formation of a new branch of Chinese paleography — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.49.10.227 (talk) 23:21, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Li participated in the research of the major archaeological discoveries of Mawangdui, Shuihudi, and Zhangjiashan, making important contributions to the understanding of ancient cultural history of the Warring States and the Qin and Han dynasties.
Li was widely considered the most important Chinese historian of his time
In 1993, Li made an influential speech in which he called for historians to "leave the 'Doubting Antiquity' period". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.49.10.227 (talk) 23:37, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
[who?] Scholars of this viewpoint argue that archaeological discoveries of recent decades have generally substantiated Chinese traditional accounts rather than contradicted them.
