| Title |
Contacts |
| Reference |
NRI2/4 |
| Covering Dates |
1943–1995 |
| Extent and Medium |
3 boxes; Paper |
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| Content and context |
This material comprises Joseph Needham's records of names of people encountered by Joseph Needham in his role as an historian on science and technology in East Asia. This section includes the set of namecards compiled by Needham in his role as head of the Sino-British Scientific Cooperation Office in Chungking, 1943-1946 as well as various later registers of names. |
| Needham/NRI2/4 contains: |
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1
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Namecards of all the people Joseph Needham met whilst in Chungking, 1943-1946, in his role as head of the Sino-British Scientific Cooperation Office. The cards are arranged alphabetically in a 4-drawer wooden card cabinet. Each card gives the name and brief description of the activities and often Needham's impression of the person. In the case of Chinese contacts, Needham has recorded the name in Chinese and in his own form of romanisation. [Note: At that time Needham had not finalised the method of romanisation used in the 'Science and Civilisation in China' volumes. Occasionally the names have been amended at a later date to reflect this]. A database of information contained on the cards has been prepared and is available for consultation at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge. See also NRI2/4/2, 4.
1 cabinet; Paper. |
1943–1946 |
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2
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'Register of Chinese Scientists compiled 1943-1946 by the Sino-British Cooperation Office'. This is a typed list of contacts made by Needham in his role as head of the Office. It is a typescript of the information contained in the namecards catalogued as NRI2/4/1. Chinese characters have been added in manuscript and there are some manuscript notes. See also NRI2/4/4.
1 bundle; Paper. |
1943–1946 |
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3
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Joseph Needham's book of Chinese friends, 1939-1941. The document is in the form of a hard-backed notebook. Needham notes people's names and in what capacity he knew them. Many of the notes have been pasted into the book. Some entires have been written by the 'friends' themselves.
1 volume; Paper. |
1939–1942 |
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4
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Joseph Needham's book of contacts for the Sino-British Scientific Cooperation Office, Chungking, China, 1942-1946. This book is arranged alphabetically. See also NRI2/4/1-2 for Needham's records of contacts made during the period. Loose inserts include the namecard of ??? [Huang Yen-Yu / Huang Yanyu], Professor of History, Lingnan University, Canton, China; membership list of the Chinese Physiological Society, June 1936; namecard for ??? [Wu Tso-Jen / Wu Zuoren / Ou Sogene]; letter from Lin Ying-Shi of the Chinese Ministry of Education to Dr Hu Chien-Shan of the British Council, Chungking, noting the contact details of Prof. Hu Jeh-Kong in Peiping, (9 February 1946); letter from Chao-Lun Tseng [??? / Zeng Zhaolun] of the National University of Peking to Joseph Needham, about arrangements for a forthcoming visit by Needham, (11 March 1946); other notes of contacts.
1 bundle; Paper. |
1942–1949 |
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5
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?????? - Dorothy Needham memorial volume. This a chinese style booklet, with a small group of signatures, presumably for when Dorothy Needham left China in 1946.
1 volume; Paper. |
1946 |
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6
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Joseph Needham's notebook of contacts made on a trip to China in 1952. The names are arranged alphabetically. Needham notes that the book was 'bought at Canal Terminal on way to ? 1952'.
1 document; Paper. |
1952 |
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7
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Joseph Needham's notebook of contacts made on a trip to China in 1958. The names are arranged alphabetically.
1 document; Paper. |
1958 |
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8
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Joseph Needham's notebook of contacts made on a trip to China and Japan in 1964. The names are arranged alphabetically. Some documents are loosely inserted including notes of further contacts; namecards; photograph of Miyashita Saburo with 2 children;.
1 bundle; Paper. |
1964 |
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9
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Joseph Needham's notebook of contacts made on a trip to Japan and India in 1971. The names are arranged alphabetically. Loose inserts include namecards; further notes of contacts.
1 bundle; Paper. |
1971 |
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10
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Joseph Needham's notebook of contacts made on a trip to China in 1972. The names are arranged alphabetically. Loose inserts include namecards; further noets of contacts; New China News Agency report of a meeting of Chinese government officials with a group of Chinese-bron American scholars, (13 July 1972) [Also pasted into the notebook is a Chinese newspaper report of the event]; letter from Charllie Crawley of Trintiy Hall, Cambridge, about a Chinese scholar in Cambridge ni 1947, (12 September 1972);.
1 bundle; Paper. |
1972 |
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11
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Joseph Needham's notebook of contacts made on a trip to Hong Kong in 1979. The names are arranged alphabetically.
1 document; Paper. |
1979 |
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12
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Address book belonging to Joseph Needham, [post 1990?]. The names are arranged alphabetically. Loose inserts include further notes of contacts.
1 bundle; Paper. |
1990–1995 |
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13
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Address book compiled by Joseph Needham's assistant, [c. 1994].
1 document; Paper. |
1992–1995 |
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14
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Joseph Needham's notebook labelled 'Lent' recording books lent to other people. It appears as if Needham crossed out entries once the books were returned. Loose inserts include a letter from Victor Purcell, about an 'interesting German book of comparative dates of historical personages shown diagramatically', (7 August 1962); further notes of books lent. Entries at the back and front of the book, show that it had a former use as a family account book, possibly by Needham's parents, (1908).
1 bundle; Paper. |
1908–1962 |
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15
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'Register of Chinese correspondents and their Addresses'. A large address book, possibly for common use in the East Asian History of Science Library, Cambridge, up until the late 1980's [?]. Entries made alphabetically, mostly by Lu Gwei-Djen. Loose inserts include namescards; notes of further contacts; typed list of contacts at The Breat Britain - China Centre, London, 1982-1983; list of delegates from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who visited Cambridge in 1981; typed list of members of a Chinese Publishers Delegation , 1982;.
1 bundle; Paper. |
1970–1989 |
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16
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Collection of miscellaneous name cards found in Joseph Needham's room in 1995. The cards are divided geographically, with the majority being from Beijing and Japan.
1 bundle; Paper. |
1960–1995 |
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17
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Joseph Needham's collection of contacts made during the course of writing 'Science and Civilisation in China'. These are arranged on cards, alphabetically in 12 metal card drawers.
12 drawers; Paper. |
1940–1989 |
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