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\"Chinese Anthropology\" Jia Lanpo Signed Announcement:
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Up for sale "Chinese Anthropology" Jia Lanpo Hand Signed Announcement. 

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Jia Lan-p'o; November 25, 8, 2001 in Beijing), was a a founder of Chinese anthropology. He graduated from the Huiwen Academy in Beijing

in 1929 and went on to work as a trainee at the Cenozoic Research

Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China.

In April 1931 he joined the excavations at Zhoukoudian where fossils of Peking Man were discovered in 1921 and where he worked

with many of the most renowned figures in paleoanthropology of his era,

including Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Henri Breuil, Davidson Black, Franz Weidenreich and Pei Wenzhong whom he replaced as the field director of

the Zhoukoudian excavations in 1935. After the founding of the People's

Republic of China in 1949, he served in many academic positions as well as

working in the field, but he is most closely associated with the Chinese

Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP)

in Beijing where Jia played a pivotal role in opening up Chinese

paleoanthropological research to foreign scientists beginning in the late

1970s.

Jia was elected a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy

of Sciences in 1994. His cremated remains are interred behind the museum at the

Zhoukoudian site alongside those of his colleagues, Pei Wenzhong and Yang Zhongjian. 

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