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(33. THE NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CHINA 9 PING MA SSU, WEST CITY, PEIPING, CHINA EE IR TER Prof. B. Karlgren, University, Gothenburg, Sweden. Dear Prof. Karlgren:- Many thanks för your letter of the 28th Jan. I have given your list to the bookseller and asked him to let me i see some of the things mentioned because the lithographic editions ry of the novels are often so poorly printed as to b...
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(33. THE NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CHINA 9 PING MA SSU, WEST CITY, PEIPING, CHINA EE IR TER Prof. B. Karlgren, University, Gothenburg, Sweden. Dear Prof. Karlgren:- Many thanks för your letter of the 28th Jan. I have given your list to the bookseller and asked him to let me i see some of the things mentioned because the lithographic editions ry of the novels are often so poorly printed as to be unreadable. Please let me know if you really want some of the novels in seven syllable verse as for example, F>>) and &F FH & . These were written especially for women and were read out to them by profes- sional «& & & . I had no idea that you were interested in this & subject. If you like, it is possible to collect 535-600 of the com- moner novels without counting the dramatic plays. Years ago I started myself to make a collection, but prices have gone up tre- mendously during the last few years and I have given up this ex- pensive hobly. I have read wiih very great interest your care- m— fullty written påper on the Fecundity Symbols. I think some of the ; 5 EA i details may not be acceptable - your new theory about the £7 », for [Jade Pte] example, seems to me to suffer frona ovgrelaåboration. But”om”the Å + whole you have proved the existence of phallic worship - the rela- Ka fören ba fTion between 28 , 44 and. 2 or rather between Bm , & and + bete fa Mnust be considered proved. The discovery of 5 is especially happy: RAR: ev c You will be interested to hear that a typicaF Shallus in stone has ÅAR Er Fo osle just been discovered by a Mr. Tung in the fä ögon of the Smith- K = " sonian., It is much smaller than the specimen illustrated in your fon : paper, but quite unmistakable. It is said to have been excavated by Mr. Tung himself from an undisturbed site in 5. Shansi containing typical Yangshao culture. I hope to send you a photograph in a few weeks - I have only seen a photograph myself, as Mr. Tung and his collection are still in Shansi. TI think however the inscriptions on AA your specimen must be all false. Oracle bone inscriptions have never been found on anything else but bone, Besides if the 2 inscriptions were genvine the original seller would not risk the chance of dis- covery by adding a false one. Apropos the passage that Wu Tang &R r on a car with him into the battle, I vaguely Snor hå ihe late £ M AF suggested va same better explanation. I think inr the sacrifices p means some living person representing the spirit of the person to whom the sacrifice was made. SR not Wu Vang merely took some one to represent the spirit of his father? - Urg -wt ta
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0135 THE NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CHINA 9 PING MA SSU, WEST CITY, PEIPING, CHINA —LPR re HÅRT . of the customs and religion of the peasants and the nobility on owhat seems to be we questionable l...
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0135 THE NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CHINA 9 PING MA SSU, WEST CITY, PEIPING, CHINA —LPR re HÅRT . of the customs and religion of the peasants and the nobility on owhat seems to be we questionable literary evidence put together without much regard to its relative date. He employs Lie Tsi, Shan Hai King etc whenever it suits his theory. His geographical knowledge seems to be quite limited. At no time could the valley of the Fen have been a marsh. Nor was the Loess area forested. Even in the delta region marshy land had its limits, The exagerated account of the clearing and draining work supposed to have carried out by the fetidal War Lords has a very slender foundation. On the whole Maspere is far d&tter. I wish I could write a thorough re- view, but I canrot afford the time. bf is very kind of you to offer to lend me your copy of Koppers /On "Die Frage des Mutherrechts u., des Totemismus in Alten China." No copy of Anthropos exists in Peking I shall be very glad to take advantage of your offer, The address of GY & 3 2 180 a dfokMowa:- Ik FRA FPA RA With best regards, Yours sincerely, VV. Ly (IV Ke TIRg)A
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0187, THE NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CHINA 9 PING MA SSU, WEST CITY, PEIPING, CHINA Rest 2 The similarity between the Swedish rock pictures and Chinese bronze inscriptions is most striking. Of late...
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0187, THE NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CHINA 9 PING MA SSU, WEST CITY, PEIPING, CHINA Rest 2 The similarity between the Swedish rock pictures and Chinese bronze inscriptions is most striking. Of late I am more and more convinced of the unity of the Eurasian cultural capital. It is a strange fart that out of the tenms of thousands of bronze discovered in the last 1,000 years not a single piece can be attributed to the Hsia (I do not doubt the existänce of the Hsia). There is also some evidence that chariot warfare was introduced by the Shang,. The survival of the polychrome pottery in the oracle bone stratum is highly significant. surely it is the most natural thing to identify the Hsia with the culture of Yangshao. If so, then the Shang introduced a fullgrown bronze culture into China. No antnropologist would maintain that bronze was independantly discovered twice on the Eurasian continent. hen we remember that between the palaeolithic found below the loess and the chalcolithic abpve no true neolithic has ever been discovered, we are forced to,Conclusion that during the time of loess formation, which is the Chinese equivalent to the Fiss- Vurm glaciation in Europe, Chinese was not habitable. Therefore we must seek the origin of the chalcolithic culture as well as the Shang bronze culture outside China. For numerous reasons they could not have been developed in the south. It is far more likely that the southern stepp was their re&l home. The use of the cowrie, "öivination,hieroglyphie writing, the dating by the cycle of 60 and wewy chariot4å - all in full developnent in the shang - seem to have their inspiration either from the Prearyan civilisation in the Indus valley, or from Sumeria or from some other centre coamon to thehbv both, The extensive use of jade which occur in Turkestan, the 7 day week, primogeniture, partriarchal family, strict exogamie marriage, and fendaliun based on a graded nobility belonging as a rule to the same clan: as the king mark the Chou off fron the Shang. Moreover eynuchs came into use. Do we suppose that the highly dif- ficult art kcastration was independently invented in China? If not, then the whole system of kingship must have had its origin elsewhere. Yourcown conclusions, although very cauRtiously stated, can only confirm the above hypothesis. All these things, taken singly, may mean little, but on the whole the weight of accumulated eviderce is on the side of diffusion, I have just been reading Gramnet's "Civilisation Chinoise"., I must confess that I am disappointed., It is a typical French book in the sense that ii is superficially profound if one may use a contradiction of terms. I do not like the sarcastic way he speaks of the work of others. He is evidently quite ignorant of the importance of palaeography - he even insinuates that the oracle bones belonged to the sung! It is surprising how a man so critical- ly seeptic about the material which others have used for their work, cen built up a highly imaginative and impressively detailed account,
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Mottagen av Karlgren, Bernhard.
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Tillverkad 1931-02-28 av Ding Wenjiang (V. K. Ting).
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Undersökningar i Yangshao, Henan (1921)
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