Hsiangfen

Palaeolithic implements have been recovered from 1953 in the Ordos and in Shansi. The most important site is Tingtsun in Hsiangfen county of the latter province. Here were found an abundant fossil fauna, three hominid teeth and over two thousand artefacts of a type more advanced than those of Pithecanthropus pekinensis.

1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry, London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134

Excavations made since China's liberation in 1949 have unearthed more human fossils and artifacts of palaeolithic times. The site at Tingtsun in Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province, is of particular interest in this connection.

1963 January 18, Hsia Nai, “Archaeology in New China”, in Peking Review, volume VI, number 3, →OCLC, page 13, column 1

Out from Houma across the hills is Hsiangfen county, which has as one of its villages the Ting Tsun, where in these last few years an archæological team from the Academy of Sciences in Peking has carried out exploration and has uncovered three human teeth in a gravel seam estimated to be of a period 200,000 years ago.

1966 March, Rewi Alley, “Ancient Sites around Houma in Southern Shansi”, in Eastern Horizon, volume V, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, column 2

Comrade Chai told us on our way back to the commune headquarters: “The South Shansi Opera Troupe of Hsiangfen County will present two operas. One is a new opera called Red Heart, a modern theme opera about an outstanding commune member who looks after his brigade’s draught animals, and the other is a play about trapping Kuomintang agents called On the Sea Front.

1966 April 1, “At Home with Yangtan Members”, in Peking Review, volume 9, number 14, →OCLC, page 29, column 2

In 1954 P’ei directed the Tingts’un excavations at Hsiangfen, Shansi, where a new paleolithic assemblage, including three hominid teeth, was found. An analysis of the teeth revealed that Tingts’un Man was phylogenetically situated between Peking Man and Modern Man and was close to the Neanderthals, especially Ordos Man. A summary of the Tingts’un finds, by P’ei and others, appeared in 1958 under the title Shan-hsi Hsiang-fen hsien Ting-ts’un chiu-shih-ch’i shih-tai i-chih fa-chueh pao-kao [report on the excavations of the paleolithic site at Tingts’un in Hsiangfen hsien, Shansi].

裴文中

1970, “P’ei Wen-chung [裴文中]”, in Howard L. Boorman, Richard C. Howard, editors, Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, volume III, New York; London: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68, column 2