WORKING ON THE‘GENEALOGY’OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION

摘要

Where did China come from?Does Chinese civilization really have a history of 5,000 years?Such questions have nagged not only at broad academia but also many ordinary Chinese people.In 2002,the national research project on tracing the origins of Chinese civilization,a.k.a.the Origins of Chinese Civilization Project(the“Origins Project”for short),was officially launched.The project has now been ongoing for 20 years.A series of major archaeological discoveries and multidisciplinary studies have solidified the fact that Chinese civilization has a history of more than 5,000 years.