Background
Xu Xusheng was born in 1888 in China.
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Xu Xusheng was born in 1888 in China.
In 1921, Xu Xusheng was appointed professor in the department of philosophy, Peking University, teaching History of Western Philosophy. In 1926, he served as provost of Peking University, and in the following year he led an expedition to northwest China to conduct archaeological investigations.
In 1929, Xu Xusheng served as dean of National Peking University Women's Teachers College. He also was president of Beijing Normal University from February 1931 to May 1932. He traveled to Xi'an in 1933, where he established the Shaanxi Archaeological Society. From 1934 to 1937 Xu Xushen investigated the Early Neolithic culture in Shaanxi Province, discovered by his team of archaeologists who carried out excavations at the Doujitai site in the middle Yellow River Valley, where his approach was said to have served as a model for archaeological methodology. Xu Xushen became director of the Institute for Historical Studies in 1936.
Xu Xusheng was elected to the Chinese National Assembly in 1947. He became a research fellow of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and surveyed Gaocheng in 1959. The Erlitou culture was discovered by him that year.
Persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, Xu Xusheng died during January 1976.
Xu Xusheng joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1957, and was elected to the Third National People's Congress in 1964.