Zheng Zhenxiang

Zheng Zhenxiang
Born	1929 Dongguang, Hebei, China
Nationality	People's Republic of China
Fields	Archaeology
Institutions	Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Alma mater	Peking University
Known for	Excavation of Anyang; excavation of Fuhao's tomb

Zheng Zhenxiang (郑振香) is a Chinese archaeologist most famous for excavating the Bronze Age tomb of Fuhao at Anyang. She has been referred to as the 'First Lady of Chinese Archaeology'.

After completing her undergraduate degree at Peking University in 1954, Zheng worked as a specialist archaeology teaching assistant in the History Department. In 1955, she was exempted from having her status converted to that of a research student. For the next four years, Zheng studied Shang and Zhou Dynasty archaeology under the guidance of Mr Yin Da. She graduated in 1959 and was assigned to the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, continuing to study Shang and Zhou archaeology.

In 1959, Zheng was the leader of an excavation team working on the site of Wangwan 王湾 near Luoyang and led archaeological fieldwork training for students of Peking University. The publication of the Luoyang excavations was written during the period 1960-1961, however, after the period of economic reforms in the early 1980s, the manuscript was edited by Zhao Zhiquan 赵芝荃 and published in 1989.

In the Autumn of 1962, Zheng was assigned leader of an excavation team working at Anyang researching the Yinxu culture. She was joined by 59 Peking University students, whom Zheng taught archaeological field methods to. During this field season, the four period dating framework for Yinxu was established, with the first period calibrated to the period of King Wu Ding using oracle bones. Further excavations were run at Miaopu North (Miaopu bei di 苗圃北地) between 1963—1964.

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