HAN Kangxin

The Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Beijing 100710 China; MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433 China

Editor’s Summary: Anthropological studies in China began in 19th century with some relevant investigations by some Europeans. In early 20th century, Chinese anthropologists, such as WOO Tingliang, came back to China and started teaching and research in China. By now, many anthropologists educated in China have worked for almost all their lives and made splendid achievements. Since 2010, Shanghai Society of Anthropology confers “Lifetime Achievement Award in Anthropology” to honor certain anthropologists worked hard for a life. The laureate of this year, Professor HAN Kangxin, an alumni of Department of Anthropology at Fudan University (Class 1957), has worked alone for more than a half century, studied thousands of the modern human skeletons of different periods in East Asia to learn the relationships among the ancient populations and the physical and pathological characters, and made great achievements in the relevant field of human migration, population communication, religious cultures, etc.