Xia Nai
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Xia Nai 夏鼐(1910-1985). Chinese archaeologist.
Xia Nai (or Hsia Nai) was born in 1910 in Wenzhou, southern Zhejiang, China. He majored in economic history at the elite Qinghua University in Beijing (BA, 1934), winning a scholarship to study abroad. He went to University College London and studied Egyptology earning a doctorate that was finally awarded to him in 1946. In the meantime, he had returned to China joining the staff of the Central Museum and then in 1944 joining the Department of Archaeology of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica (1943-1949), becoming acting director in 1948. When the Institute moved to Taiwan in 1949, Xia stayed behind in China, teaching at Zhejiang Univerity for a year before joining the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1950-1982), eventually becoming director of its Institute of Archaeology.
Further reading K.C. Chang, 'Xia Nai (1910-1985)', in American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 88, No. 2 (June 1986), pp. 442-444.
E. Field and Wang Tao, 'Xia Nai: the London connection', in Orientations, June 1997.
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