The excavation of the Yinxu site at Anyang stands as a cornerstone of modern Chinese archaeology, ushering in a methodology that fused Western field techniques with China's lonng tradition of historigraphical and textual study. While these early efforts successively verified the authenticity of the Shang dynasty narrative, they often constrained the interpretative scope of archaeological data. In last few decades, however, Chinese scholors came to realize the limitation of relying primarily on oracle bone inscriptions and historiographical concern. A more expansive approach sebsequently emerged, exemplified by anthropological and sociological lines of inquiry into settlement patterns, political organization, kinship structures, craft specialization, and ideology—lines that illuminated Yinxu not merely as a political entity but a  social and ceremonial center. Researchers from both China and abroad contributed to reimagining Yinxu, shifting the focus toward social complexity, ritual systems, and the processes of state formation. This broad perspective has tried to move beyond the “Dual Evidence method” that framed Chinese archaeology. The paper calls to continue expanding research horizons, integrate global theoretical advances, and achieve a richer, more nuanced reconstruction of ancient Chinese civilization that transcends traditional text-centered approaches.