The origin of Chinese civilization is not only a major topic that Chinese scholars have devoted themselves to, but also a research topic that the international academic community continues to pay attention to. The Institute of Humanities has invited Li Xinwei, an important organizer of The Origin of Chinese Civilization Project, to hold a lecture on March 23, 2023, Unity in Diversity: The Origin of Chinese Civilization. You are welcome to attend and exchange ideas!
Increasingly abundant archaeological evidence reveals that prehistoric regions in China developed synchronously and leap-forward to form an ancient country such as starry sky around 6000 to 5,300 years ago, with continuous exchanges and collisions between regions, the China Interaction Sphere or the Initial China is formed, and that Liangzhu Culture formed an early state and continued to develop around 5,300 years ago. Formed more than 5,000 years ago, the Chinese civilization is carried out in the form of unity in diversity. In the vast space, it has experienced the fission, impact and fusion of various regional cultures. In this grand process, the civilization gene of harmony among all nations was born, and the grand political idea of achieving regional integration was born. Therefore, the Zhou Dynasty was able to realize the political ambition of there is no other kingdom under the whole earth through theFenfeng system more than 3,000 years ago, which turned the ideal China into the real China.
Li Xinwei is currently a researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Director of the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology and World Archaeology. He has long been committed to the research of Neolithic archaeology and the origin of civilization in China. He served as the chief expert of the National Social Science Foundation's major project Comprehensive Research on the Xipo Site of Lingbao in Henan Province and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Innovation Project's major project Copan Site Archaeology of Maya Civilization Center and Research on Mesoamerican Civilization. Leader of the project Chinese Civilization Exploration Project of the science and Technology Support Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has published more than 10 monographs in Chinese and foreign languages and more than 100 papers.