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

Needham/NRI2/SCC2 contains:
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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.
35	Education: Chinese parallels with Comenius [1592-1670] etc.
36	Chinese education: Lecture notes
37	Museums of the History of Chinese Science and Technology
38	Folklore and folksong
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title	Papers relating to 'TheTitsingh Project: The Exchange of Learning and Culture Between the Netherlands/Europe and Japan 1640-1853'
Reference	SCC2/33
Covering Dates	Oct. 1987–24 Feb. 1988
Extent and Medium	Paper

Content and context

Isaac Titsingh was a Dutch explorer, diplomat and administrator, who went to Japan as the Dutch Envoy in 1778 and served as Director of the Dutch East India Company factory at Nagasaki (Deshima Island) for three periods between 1779 and 1784.

Needham/NRI2/SCC2/33 contains:

Letter from Frank Lequin of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Holland introducing the Titsingh project and asking Joseph Needham to act as referee in funding applications. The documents also include a copy of Needham's reply; a description of the project.
Creator: Lequin, Frank; Needham, Joseph.
2 sheets; Paper.

5 Nov. 1987–18 Nov. 1987

Letter from Frank Lequin of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Holland about the progress of his research on Isaac Titsingh. Lequin advises Joseph Needham of a find 'in the Archives' of 'a complete inventory of all his belongings, of his whole estate at the day of his death in Paris'..'including a description of his (the first) japanological collection plus chinese books and coins!'.
Creator: Lequin, Frank.
1 document; Paper.

5 Dec. 1987

Letter from Frank Lequin of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Holland advising Joseph Needham of progress of the Titsingh Project. The letter also mentions the death of Dorothy Needham.
Creator: Lequin, Frank.
1 document; Paper.

24 Feb. 1988

Detailed typescript plan for 'TheTitsingh Project: The Exchange of Learning and Culture Between the Netherlands/Europe and Japan 1640-1853'.
70 sheets; Paper.

Oct. 1987