裴文中

裴文中 enters the wiki through 19.荒野上的大师：“我辈于乱世求研究，本为逆流之妄举” as the fieldworker who remained at [[Zhoukoudian|周口店]] when confidence was low and discovered the first Peking Man skull near the end of a dig. The episode presents him as a concrete example of discovery depending on patient local presence, not only on famous institutions or foreign funding.

His story sits inside the transition from geology and mining-related survey to paleontology and human-origins research. The source also notes the later loss of the skulls during wartime and the symbolic importance of later bone fragments that could fit earlier models.

Key Claims

• Pei Wenzhong’s discovery shows how Fieldwork As Knowledge Method / 田野作为知识方法 can depend on staying with an uncertain site.
• The source links him to the institutional shift from geological survey to paleontology.
• The lost Peking Man skulls make Scholarship In Wartime / 乱世求研究 a problem of physical evidence, not only people and schools.

Connections

• [[Zhoukoudian|周口店]] - main site associated with him in the episode.
• [[GeologicalResearchInstitute|地质研究所/地质调查所]] - institutional research branch that leads toward the site.
• Fieldwork As Knowledge Method / 田野作为知识方法 and Scholarship In Wartime / 乱世求研究 - concept links.
• Cosmopolitan Chinese Scholarship / 世界主义的中国学术 - Rockefeller, hospital, and Chinese survey collaboration context.