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As one of the leading figures in Chinese archeology, Su Bingqi's main academic contributions are concentrated in three books. In addition to "Selected Archaeological Essays by Su Bingqi" and "Chinese·Chinese·Descendants of the Dragon", "New Explorations on the Origin of Chinese Civilization" was his last monograph during his lifetime. It is his review and experience in the process of exploring the origins of Chinese culture, Chinese civilization and Chinese tradition. It is also a book that is the culmination of a lifetime of academic research, and is also a popular read for the intellectual public who are interested in archeology. The book contains the main academic achievements of Mr. Su Bingqi's life, such as the theory of China's six major cultural regions, influential academic theories such as "ancient culture, ancient cities and ancient countries", "trilogy of origins of ancient Chinese countries" and "three types of development models"; as well as the global Chinese archeology proposed in the early 1990s. It still has guiding significance for today's archaeological research.

In China from the Neolithic Age to the Xia and Shang dynasties, many civilizations with similar levels of development existed at the same time, scattered in all directions in China, like stars in the sky. Mr. Su Bingqi vividly summarized this as a "sky full of stars" model. This model breaks the deep-rooted traditional concepts of the center of the ancient Central Plains, the Han people, and the dynasty in the field of historical archaeology, and raises many questions worth rethinking about the origin of Chinese civilization. "A Sky Full of Stars: Su Bingqi on Ancient China" has been carefully selected and arranged by philosopher Zhao Tingyang for readers to represent Mr. Su Bingqi's academic thoughts and style: paying attention to the ideas that can be developed by archaeological evidence, and developing almost philosophical analysis and speculation on the basis of empirical knowledge.