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0216 Dr: Ja, Ge Andersson, Sa fr Sr Page Two. I am sending you under separate cover copies of tre literature which we prepared for this school for this year, togetrer with the student publication which will give you some idea of the spirit we are trying to convey through our work. In the advanced classes we have had two full time students qualified to read Wenli and devot- ing themselves very earn...
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0216 Dr: Ja, Ge Andersson, Sa fr Sr Page Two. I am sending you under separate cover copies of tre literature which we prepared for this school for this year, togetrer with the student publication which will give you some idea of the spirit we are trying to convey through our work. In the advanced classes we have had two full time students qualified to read Wenli and devot- ing themselves very earnestly to full time study, There have been about ten others that have done steady work in at least one work of serious Study. Beyond that there have been between forty and a hun- åäred who have come with regulerity to tre various lecture courses in cultural subjects. Our library has become increasingly useful to Peking people, and I believe we have made some real progress dur- ing the year in trying to realize some of the dreams of which we were speaking to you and others a year ago. I wish we could include you in the invitation to our luncheon for Pekinos students of Things Chinese, We want them to come and see the comnmleted plans and to hear an informal report on this work. We shall be happy if they will be good enough to give us once more their eriticism and advice. The funds for the development for this school wiich we have expected from America seem to be assured but have not yet been paid over, So that we have not been able to make beginnings in pub- lications as we had hoped to do by this time. We have added a Chinese colleague to our staff, Professor Y,. L. Feng, whose sneciality is Chinese Ethics and Philosophy. He is unusual among the Chinese whom I have met in being rezl1ly eager to devote himself throughout his live to the task of interpreting Chinese culture to Westerners., I have long been hoping to find a Chinese who would feel the call to such a duty. Mr. Feng and I hope to cooperate during many years in the work of putting Chinese ideas into English or some other Zuropean language and in the cor- responding task of putting into Chinese Western studies of Chinese subjects. I am really very happy in the prospects of the school as we view them after this year of experiment. We are plannitg now summer school during the month of July to which we hope to attract many of those who are interested in Chinese culture but who find it impossible because of their tasks to devote time to that study dur= ing the other parts of the year. I shall be glad to know of your own work and life as you have time to report now and again. Will you be good enough to make a list of Scandinavian scholars of Chinese and related Oriental subjects? We have not been able to get material from eitr er France or Germany as yet and not completely from Russia, so our "Minerva" has not yet appeared. I have a fine list of Chinese scholars and know fairly well what is being done and tne peonle who are working in America and England. Very sin ely 0 With warm regards,
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0219 YENCHING SCHOOL OF CHINESE STUDIES (LANGUAGE SCH90L) DIRECTING BODIES American Board Mission Young Women's Christian Association Te!ephenes 1633, 1629, 2959 East American Methodist Mission Americ...
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0219 YENCHING SCHOOL OF CHINESE STUDIES (LANGUAGE SCH90L) DIRECTING BODIES American Board Mission Young Women's Christian Association Te!ephenes 1633, 1629, 2959 East American Methodist Mission American Legation Telegraphic Address "Language Feking” American Presbyterian Mission American Chamber of Commerce Codes Used: "Missions” and "G.I.M.” Church of England RM ER Eejaton of Commerce London Missionary Society ritish Legation Young Men's Christian Association Peking Union Medica! College PEKING, CHINA. Yenching University April 1, 1926. Dr: Je GG. Andersson, Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm,Sweden. Dear Dr. Anderson: I have to thank you for your interesting letter of November 17 and for the conies of your address to the Universal Christian Confer- ence on Life and Work, in which you spoke so generously of my humble little book, and for your very pretty Christmas card and the warm ogreetinss it conveyed. I was really very much touched by what you said of the attitude toward China taken in my book, and am glad that it could be useful to you in presenting to so noble an audience as that which you addressed at Stockholm the point of view which we both believe in. Your reinforcement gave my attitude a far wider in- fluence than it could possibly have received otherwise. I knew that you ould find Carter's book on the"Invention of Printing in China" a valuable contribution to Chinese research. It is indeed sad that Carter's life should have ended so suddenly and pre- maturely. 3Zesides being a very deep personal 1088 to me, it was a bitter disapnointment to have my work at Columbia in reorganizing the Department of Chinese and of securing a successor, so speedily overthrown., I have been trying to advise Columbia University with regard to anotrer avpointment, but there is no one fitted as Carter was to do the work with what seemed to -me just the right union of sound scholarship and attractive style in presentation. I was much interested in what you said regarding Professor von 1e Coq's views on the Art of Central Asia. He is an entrusiastie advo- cate of the Greek origin of all good artistic influence throughout the world. His evidence is certainly very convincing and carries greä&t weight so far as it goes, but I agree with you in feeling that he has quite underestimated the Chinese factor. Surely his. position will be revised when more is known of tre earlier Chinese art devel- opment. We have his magnificent pictures and are studying his posi- tion while we try to discover evidence on which to build up a view of the indiginous Chinese art prior to the introduction of Central Asian influences in historic tines., Of course, you know discoveries indicate tre transmission of cultural elements from Central Asia in- to China from tke late pre-historic periods.
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