Janus: Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Needham/NRI2/SCC2 contains:
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24	Computerisation of Chinese
25	Geography of China, Human and Economic
26	History of China
27	Relations and contacts between China and the West, including Central Asia; travellers; Influence of China on Europe
28	'Rewriting of Contacts Chapter'
29	Christian tombs in Chhuanchow and Yangchow
30	Contacts: Earliest western writers on China (Portuguese, Dutch etc.)
31	Relations between China and the West: during the 17th and 18th centuries, Jesuit and post-Jesuit
32	'Fondazione Cini, Venice 1983: Contacts Prolusione, Gunpowder Epic, Variolation Epic'
33	Papers relating to 'TheTitsingh Project: The Exchange of Learning and Culture Between the Netherlands/Europe and Japan 1640-1853'
34	Chinese Humanism: the Classics, Canon etc.
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title	Christian tombs in Chhuanchow and Yangchow
Reference	SCC2/29
Covering Dates	1952–12 Sept. 1958
Extent and Medium	Paper

Content and context

This file was found as a sub-folder of the folder on 'Rewriting of Contacts Chapter', catalogued as SCC2/28.

Needham/NRI2/SCC2/29 contains:

Letter from Prof. A.C. Moule of Cambridge University, asking for Joseph Needham's help to obtain rubbings of inscriptions of the carved tombstones at Chhuanchow. The documents also include a copy of a letter from Joseph Needham to Kuo Mo-Jo [??? / Guo Moruo] asking for help in the matter.
Creator: Moule, A.C.; Needham, Joseph.
2 documents; Paper.

21 Apr. 1953–15 May 1953

Letter from Prof. John Foster of the University of Glasgow about his work on the inscriptions of mediaeval carved tombstones in China. The documents also include a copy of Joseph Needham's reply and script of a radio talk by Foster entitled 'A Virgin and Child from Mediaeval China'. Foster mentions a stone from Chhuanchow city wall which is possibly the gravestone of Andre of Perugia, Third Bishop of Zaitun, 1323.
Creator: Foster, John; Needham, Joseph.
9 sheets; Paper.

Mar. 1956–17 Apr. 1956

Copy of a letter sent to Kuo Mo-Jo [??? / Guo Moruo] asking for help in obtaining further information about the tombstones on behalf of Prof. John Foster and Prof. A. C. Moule. At the top of the letter Joseph Needham notes, 'Kuo Mo-Jo eventually replied that Wu Wên-Liang has a substantial book coming out on the Chhüanchow stones and copy will be sent to Moule'.
2 sheets; Paper.

17 Apr. 1956

Offprint of an article by John Foster published in the 'Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society' entitled, 'Crosses from the Walls of Zaitun [Chhuanchow]'.
Creator: Foster, John.
1 document; Paper.

Apr. 1954

Letter from John Foster of The University of Glasgow enclosing a photograph of 'the Yangchou stone'.
Creator: Foster, John.
2 pieces; Paper and photograph.

20 Apr. 1956

Letter from John Foster of the University of Glasgow about a book by Wu Wên-Liang on the tombstones.
Creator: Foster, John.
1 document; Paper.

12 Sep. 1958

Joseph Needham's original file title.
1 document; Paper.

1952–1956