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

Needham/NRI2/SCC2 contains:
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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
39	Ball games, recreation etc
40	Philosophy: Confucianism
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title	Education: Chinese parallels with Comenius [1592-1670] etc.
Reference	SCC2/35
Covering Dates	1942–25 July 1982
Extent and Medium	Paper

Needham/NRI2/SCC2/35 contains:

Letter from Otokar Chlub of the 'Commission for the Organisation of the International Conference for Comeniologues in Prague, 1957', inviting Joseph Needham to the Conference and asking for his views on its organisation. The documents also include Needham's notes list the main themes of the conference and the names of British delgates. He also notes that he should write to Dr. Josef Brambora 'about the Chinese children's encyclopaedic picture-books'.
Creator: Chlub, Otokar; Needham, Joseph.
3 sheets; Paper.

1 June 1957

Copy a letter to Lord Chorley of Stanmore, Middlesex, passing on an invitation to a 'conference and symposium on the work of Comenius' in Prague and Chorley's reply. This refers to the International Conference for Comeniologues in Prague, 1957. (See SCC2/36/1). Joseph Needham's letter describes his interest in Comenius and a recent visit to Prague with Dorothy Needham.
Creator: Chorley; Needham, Joseph.
2 sheets; Paper.

20 July 1957–23 July 1957

Copy of a letter to Dr. Josef Brambora of the Education Department of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, about early children's encyclopedias in China and education in China in the same century as Comenius.
2 sheets; Paper.

22 July 1957

Copy of a letter to Dr. Josef Brambora of the Education Department of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague which accompanied a gift copy of 'our collective volume on Comenius, 'The Teacher of Nations''.
1 document; Paper.

19 Aug. 1957

Joseph Needham's notes on Comenius from a work by Fitzgibbon Young.
3 sheets; Paper.

1950–1959

Letter from Dr. Josef Brambora of the Education Department of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague inviting Joseph Needham to write an article on Chinese encyclopedias. The documents also include a copy of Joseph Needham's reply. Brambora requests the article for the magazine, 'The Archives for Researches into Life and Work of J. A. Comenius'..
Creator: Brambora, Josef; Needham, Joseph.
2 sheets; Paper.

18 Dec. 1957–17 Jan. 1958

Letter from Dr. Josef Brambora of the Education Department of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague originally accompanying a copy of the journal 'Acta Comeniana' and copy of Joseph Needham's reply. Brambora refers to an article contributed at Needham's suggestion by Chêng Tsung-Hai.
Creator: Brambora, Josef; Needham, Joseph.
2 sheets; Paper.

24 Apr. 1961–29 May 1961

Letter from Guy S. Métraux of the International Commission for a History of the Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind about a series of articles on encyclopedias for the 'Journal of World History. The documents also include a copy of Joseph Needham's reply.
Creator: Métraux, Guy S.; Needham, Joseph.
3 sheets; Paper.

10 June 1964–10 July 1964

Correspondence with Denis Cooke of the Cambridge Institute for Education about arrangements for a Joseph Needham lecture on 'The Place of Education in Chinese Society' as part of a series on 'Comparative Education'.
Creator: Cooke, Denis; Needham, Joseph.
5 sheets; Paper.

5 Nov. 1964–6 May 1965

Correspondence with P. A. Kusel of the Cambridge University Arnold Society about a Joseph Needham lecture on 'Chinese Educational Traditions'. The documents also include a lecture 'Programme for the Michaelmas Term 1963'.
Creator: Kusel, P.A.; Needham, Joseph.
5 sheets; Paper.

15 June 1963-Oct. 1963

Photograph of 'Students at Peking University talking after my lecture in 1958'.
1 document; Paper.

1958

Photograph of 'The ancient buildings of Yo-lu Shan College just outside Chhangsha in Hunan province..'. Joseph Needham's caption goes on to describe the college as the place 'where in the 12th cent A. D., Chu Hsi, the greatest of all Chinese philosophers taught. Now a middle (i.e. secondary) school attached to Hunan University'.
1 document; Paper.

1964

Letter from Dr. Josef Brambora of the Education Department of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague arranging introductions for his colleague Dr. Svetla Solarová for a visit to England. The documents also include a copy of Joseph Needham's reply; copies of Needham's letters of introduction for Solarová to the British Museum and Cambridge University Library.
Creator: Brambora, Josef; Needham, Joseph.
5 sheets; Paper.

19 July 1966–26 July 1966

Letter from Dr. Josef Brambora of the Education Department of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague inviting Joseph Needham to take part in a symposium on 'Komensky [Comenius] and Science'. The documents also include a copy of Needham's reply; further letter from Brambora; programme for the symposium. Needham declines the invitation but suggests others who might attend.
Creator: Brambora, Josef; Needham, Joseph.
5 sheets; Paper.

20 Nov. 1967–1968

Letter from Brian Southam of Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, Publishers of London asking for Joseph Needham's view on a book on 'Chinese Education' and copy of Needham's reply.
Creator: Southam, Brian; Needham, Joseph.
2 sheets; Paper.

10 Apr. 1968–27 Apr. 1968

Printed extract from the ??? [Lao Chhi Ta / Lao Qi Da], the 'oldest text book for teaching Chinese to non-Chinese people', (15th centrury). The extract has been annotated by Joseph Needham. He notes that he acquired it at the 29th International Congress of Oriental Studies in Paris, 1973.
1 document; Paper.

1973

Letter from Gerald Fleming of the Department of Linguistic and Religious Studies, University of Surrey advising of a visit to Hong Kong to lecture on 'visual media in language teaching' and related telegram from Fleming in Hong Kong.
Creator: Fleming, Gerald.
3 sheets; Paper.

13 Feb. 1973-Mar. 1973

Printed descriptions of 'Hsin-Pien. Tui-Hsiang, Szu-Yen: 15th Century primer. Facsimile Reproduction with Introduction and Notes by L. C. Goodrich', (1967).
2 sheets; Paper.

28 May 1969–15 Jan. 1973

Letter from Richard Liu and Wee Chong Tan of Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Canada, inviting Joseph Needham to contribute to the education journal, 'Interact' and copy of Needham's reply.
Creator: Liu, Richard; Wee Chong Tan; Needham, Joseph.
2 sheets; Paper.

10 Mar. 1977–18 Mar. 1977

Letter from Alan Jackson of the Department of Education, Teeside College, Middlesborough, about his study of the teaching of Chinese history in British schools since 1900 and copy of Joseph Needham's reply.
Creator: Jackson, Alan; Needham, Joseph.
2 sheets; Paper.

22 June 1982–25 July 1982

Related bibliographical references and advertisements for books.
9 sheets; Paper.

1942–1969

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

1950–1959