Chronology Entries
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| 1 | 1914 |
Carl Whiting Bishop wird Assistant Curator of Oriental Art des University of Pennsylvania Museum.
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| 2 | 1914 |
Mu Xiangyue erhält den M.A. des Texas Agriculture and Mechanical College und reist nach Shanghai zurück.
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| 3 | 1914 |
Yeats, W.B. Art and ideas. In : New weekly ; 20 June, 27 June (1914).
http://books.google.ch/books?hl=de&id=m4QabtHKSCsC&q=chinese#v=snippet&q= chinese&f=false. "Our appreciations of the older schools are changing too, becoming simpler, and when we take pleasure in some Chinese painting of an old man, meditating upon a mountain path, we share his meditation, without forgetting the beautiful intricate pattern of the lines like those we have seen under our eyelids as we fell asleep ; nor do the Bridge and Bridegroom of Rajput painting, sleeping upon a house-top, or wakening when out of the still water the swans fly upward at the dawn, seem the less well painted because they remind us of many poems." |
| 4 | 1914 ca. |
Ezra Pound and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska were attracted to ritual bronzes of the Shang and Zhou societies in London museums.
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| 5 | 1914 |
W.B. Yeats was spending the fall and winter with Ezra Pound and read the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, some Japanese Noh plays. He felt that he had at last found the dramatic form which would allow him to explore 'a deep of the mind'.
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| 6 | 1914 |
Fritz Max Weiss eröffnet ein deutsches Konsulat in Kunming.
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| 7 | 1914-1925 |
Lowell, Amy. Works.
1912 Lowell, Amy. A little song. In : Lyrical poems. In : Lowell, Amy. A dome of many-coloured glass. (Boston : H. Mifflin, 1912). … In a single flash, while your streaming hair Catches the stars and pulls them down To shine on some slumbering Chinese town... 1914 Lowell, Amy. Sword blades and poppy seed. (New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, 1914). A little shop with its various ware Spread on shelves with nicest care. Pitchers, and jars, and jugs, and pots, Pipkins, and mugs, and many lots Of lacquered canisters, black and gold, Like those in which Chinese tea is sold… These vases, poisoned venoms spout, Impregnate with old Chinese charms; Sealed urns containing mortal harms, They fill the mind with thoughts impure, Pestilent drippings from the ure Of vicious thinkings… At last, he poured it back into The china jar of Holland blue, Which he carefully carried to its place… Of sandalwood, and pungent China teas, Tobacco, coffee!"… At highest tide she lets her anchor go, And starts for China… Loose in a china teapot, may confess His need, but may not borrow till his friend Comes back to give… I brought from China, herbs the natives smoke, Was with me, and I thought merely to play a game… 1916 Lowell, Amy. Men, women and ghosts. (New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, 1916). The china shone upon the dresser, topped By polished copper vessels which her skill Kept brightly burnished. It was very still… He drew her into the shade of the sails, And whispered tales Of voyages in the China seas, And his arm around her Held and bound her… Tramp of men. Steady tramp of men. Slit-eyed Chinese with long pigtails Bearing oblong things upon their shoulders March slowly along the road to Longwood… And one of them Captain Bennett's dining-table! And sixteen splendid Chinamen, all strong and able And of assured neutrality… The fire snaps pleasantly, and the old Chinaman nods—nods… The china mandarin on the bookcase nods slowly, forward and back--forward and back--and the red rose writhes and wriggles, thrusting its flaming petals under and over one another like tortured snakes… A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven flowers and fruits in blackening gold… He took his Chinese pastilles and put them in a mass Upon the mantelpiece till he could seek a plate Worthy to hold them burning… I saw them as a circle of ghosts Sipping blackness out of beautiful china, And mildly protesting against my coarseness In being alive… A man carries a china mug of coffee to a distant chair… 1917 Lowell, Amy. Ombre chinoise. In : The Yale review ; Jan. (1917). Red foxgloves against a yellow wall Streaked with plum-coloured shadows ; A lady with a red and blue sunshade ; The slow dash of waves upon a parapet That is all. Non-existent – immortal – A solid as the centre of a ring of fine gold. 1917 Lowell, Amy. Tendencies in modern American poetry. (New York, N.Y. : Macmilan, 1917). What are these names ? Some are Anglo-Saxon, aome are clearly German ; one, 'Russian Sonia', tells of an origin, if not distinctly national, at least distinctly cosmopolitan ; an other, 'Yee Bow', is as obviously Chinese. We do not find German, French, Chinese names in Mr. Frost's books… Sometimes the poet's conception of more Chinese than Japanese : An Oiran and her Kamuso. Gilded hummingbirds are whizzing Through the palace garden, Deceived by the jade petals Of the Emperor's jewel-trees. That is almost distinctly Chinese… In 'Spoon River', there are no primary characters, no secondary characters. We have only a town and the people who inhabit it. The Chinese laundry-man is as important to himself as the State's Attorney is to himself… 1918 Lowell, Amy. Can Grande's castle. (Boston : H. Mifflin, 1918). The coaling ships have arrived, and the shore is a hive of Negroes, and Malys, and Lascars, and Chinese… The beautiful dresses, Blue, Green, Mauve, Yellos ; And the beautiful green pointed hats Like Chinese porcelains !... Vessels glaore choke the wharves. From China, Siam, Malaya ; Sumatra, Europe, America… Winter, with green, high, angular seas. Bot over the water, far toward China, are burning the furnaces of three great steamers, and four sailing vessels heel over, with decks slanted and sails full and pulling… Ten ships sailing for China on a fair May wind. Ten ships sailing from one world into another, but never again into the one they left… 1919 Lowell, Amy. Pictures of the floating world. (London : Macmillan, 1919). Foreword : The first part of this book represents some of the charm I have found in delving into Chinese and Japanese poetry… From China I thought : The moon, Shining upon the many steps of the palace before me… It plays at ball in old, blue Chinese gardens, And shakes wrought dice-cups in Pagan temples Amid the broken flutings of white pillars… Above, the models of four brown Chinese junks Sailing round the brown walls, Silent and motionless…The brown Chinese junks sail silently round the brown walls… Thrust back against the swaying lilac leaves, Will bloom and fade before the China asters Smear their crude colours over Autumn hazes… Toss on some Chinese white to flash the clouds, And trust the sunlight you've got in your paint. Warm it on tea-pots She sat in a Chinese wicker chair Wide at the top like a spread peacock's tail, And toyed with a young man's heart which she held lightly in her fingers… A Dresden china shepherdess, Flaunted before a tall mirror On a high mantelpiece… 1925 Lowell, Amy. What's o'clock. (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1925). The strange pink colour of Chinese porcelains ; Wonderful – the glow of them… I might be sighting a tea-clipper, Tacking into the blue bay, Just back from Canton With her hold full of green and blue porcelain, And a Chinese coolie leaning over the rail Gazing at the white spire With dull, sea-spent eyes… Pipkins, pans, and pannikins, China teapots, tin and pewter, Baskets woven of green rushes… Charging the noses of quill-driving clerks When a ship was in from China. You called to them : "Goose-quill men, goose-quill men, May is a month for flitting," Until they writhed on their high stools And wrote poetry on their letter-sheets behind the propped-up ledgers… I might be sighting a tea-clipper, Tacking into the blue bay, Just back from Canton With her hold full of green and blue porcelain, And a Chinese coolie leaning over the rail Gazing at the white spire With dull, sea-spent eyes… |
| 8 | 1914 |
Amy Lowell discussed oriental poetry with Ezra Pound and Frank Stuart Flint on her second visit to London, this time as a full member of the Imagist group. It was on this visit that her acquaintance with John Gould Fletcher blossomed into a friendship that was to last throughout her lifetime. Fletcher was absorbed in Chinese and Japanese poetry, especially after having been shown the Fenollosa manuscripts by Ezra Pound.
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| 9 | 1914 |
London, Jack. The mutiny of the Elsinore. (New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, 1914).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2415/2415.txt I spoke to the steward, an old Chinese, smooth-faced and brisk of movement, whose name I never learned, but whose age on the articles was fifty-six… I found myself greeted by a delicate-faced, prettily-gowned woman who sat beside a lacquered oriental table on which rested an exquisite tea-service of Canton china… He pretty old man--fifty-five years, he say. Very smart man for Chinaman… And then I heard a slight tinkling of china from the pantry as the steward proceeded to set the table, and, also, it was so warm and comfortable, and George Moore was so irritatingly fascinating… "His name Louis," he said. "He Chinaman, too. No; only half Chinaman. Other half Englishman… To all intents he was a Chinese, until he spoke, whereupon, measured by speech alone, he was an Englishman… I found myself neglected, out there on top the draughty house, while Miss West talked chickens with the Chinese ex-smuggler… Andy Fay and Mulligan Jacobs burn with hatred unconsumable, and the small-handed half-caste Chinese cooks for all. She avers that she loves the sea and the atmosphere of sea-life, yet, verily, she has brought her home-things and land-things along with her--even to her pretty china for afternoon tea… "I was once on a voyage on a tramp steamer loaded with four hundred Chinks--I beg your pardon, sir--Chinese. They were coolies, contract labourers, coming back from serving their time… As for the murder, when pressed by me, he gave me to understand that it was no affair of the Japanese or Chinese on board, and that he was a Japanese. But Louis, the Chinese half-caste with the Oxford accent, was more frank. I caught him aft from the galley on a trip to the lazarette for provisions… And the Eurasian Chinese-Englishman bowed himself away… "It was an ancient Chinese philosopher who is first recorded as having said, what doubtlessly the cave men before him gibbered, namely, that a woman pursues a man by fluttering away in advance of him."… And yet, even as Mr. Pike grudgingly admits, he is a good sailorman and second mate save for his unholy intimacy with the men for'ard--an intimacy which even the Chinese cook and the Chinese steward deplore as unseamanlike and perilous… Wise, clever, cautious, old Chinese steward! He made no emergence… I hear the shrill laughter of the steward and Louis over some ancient Chinese joke… Assisted by the old steward, who knows, as a Chinese ought, a deal about fireworks, and getting my materials from our signal rockets and Roman candles, I manufactured half a dozen bombs… "They have been fighting," I said. "It is good that they should fight among themselves." But the old Chinese merely grinned and shook his head… |
| 10 | 1914 |
London, Jack. The strength of the strong. (New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, 1914).
http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/StrengthStrong/samuel.html The sea farmer. Beneath them, on the main deck, two Chinese stokers were carrying breakfast for'ard across the rusty iron plates that told their own grim story of weight and wash of sea… They were Chinese, with expressionless, Sphinx-like faces, and they walked in peculiar shambling fashion, dragging their feet as if the clumsy brogans were too heavy for their lean shanks… Coals again to Oregon, seven thousand miles, and nigh as many more with general cargo for Japan and China… And again he held her away from him, this wife of ten years and of whom he knew so little. She was almost a stranger - more a stranger than his Chinese steward, and certainly far more a stranger than his own officers whom he had seen every day, day and day, for eight hundred and fifty days… 'We regret tull note the loss o' two Chinese members o' yer crew of Newcastle, an' we recommend greater carefulness und the future.' Greater carefulness! And I could no a-been more careful… Samuel. In the centre of the mantel was a stuffed bird-of-paradise, while about the room were scattered gorgeous shells from the southern seas, delicate sprays of coral sprouting from barnacled PI-PI shells and cased in glass, assegais from South Africa, stone axes from New Guinea, huge Alaskan tobacco-pouches beaded with heraldic totem designs, a boomerang from Australia, divers ships in glass bottles, a cannibal KAI-KAI bowl from the Marquesas, and fragile cabinets from China and the Indies and inlaid with mother-of-pearl and precious woods… The rumour died down, and the island fell to discussing in all its ramifications the loss of the Grenoble in the China seas, with all her officers and half her crew born and married on Island McGill… |
| 11 | 1914-1940 |
Frank L. Norris ist Bischof in Nord-China.
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| 12 | 1914 |
Norris, Frank. Vandover and the brute. (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914).
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=14712. He was not what would be called in America a rich man, but he had made money enough to travel, to allow himself any reasonable relaxation, to cultivate a taste for art, music, literature or the drama, to indulge in any harmless fad, such as collecting etchings, china or bric-a-brac… There were the usual bottles of olives and pepper sauce, a plate of broken crackers, and a ribbed match-safe of china… Her father had a three-fourths interest in a carpet-cleaning establishment on Howard Street, and her mother gave lessons in painting on china and on velvet… The family kept two servants, June the "China boy," who had been with them since the beginning of things, and Delphine the cook, a more recent acquisition… Her hands were red and knotty, smelling of soap, and they touched the chinaware with an over-zealous and constraining tenderness as if the plates and dishes had been delicate glass butterflies… The stores were closed and in their vestibules one saw the peddlers who were never there on week-days, venders of canes and peddlers of glue with heavy weights attached to mended china plates… The single bartender was reading a paper, and in the passage between the private rooms a Chinese with a clean napkin wound around his head was polishing the brass and woodwork… The mixing of his tobacco was a positive event and undertaken with all gravity, while the task of keeping it moist and ripe in the blue china jar… He found amusement for two days in twisting and rolling these "lights," cutting frills in the larger ends with a pair of scissors, and stacking them afterward in a Chinese flower jar he had bought for the purpose and stood on top of the bookcases…. A Chinese "boy" in a stiff blouse of white linen, made a great splashing as he washed down the front steps with a bucket of water and the garden hose… The college men in the front ranks were singing one song, those in the rear another, while the middle of the column was given over to an abominable medley of fish-horns, policemen's rattles and great Chinese gongs… The work that Field secured for him was the work of painting those little pictures on the lacquered surface of iron safes, those little oval landscapes between the lines of red and gold lettering--landscapes, rugged gorges, ocean steamships under all sail, mountain lakes with sailboats careening upon their surfaces, the boat indicated by two little triangular dabs of Chinese white, one for the sail itself and the other for its reflection in the water… The neighbourhood was low--just on the edge of the Barbary Coast, abounding in stores for second-hand clothing, saloons, pawnshops, gun-stores, bird-stores, and the shops of Chinese cobblers… A Chinese woman passed him, pattering along lamely, her green jade ear-rings twinkling in the light of a street lamp, newly lighted… |
| 13 | 1914-1919 |
Edwin Sheddan Cunningham ist Konsul des amerikanischen Konsulats in Hankou.
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| 14 | 1914-1935 |
Johan Wilhelm Normann Munthe als Generalleutnant ist Kommandant der Sicherheitskräfte für Sicherheit ausländischer diplomatischer Vertretungen in Beijing.
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| 15 | 1914 |
Ausstellung chinesischer Kunst (Zhou-Qing) in Stockholm.
Gustav Adolf von Schweden besucht die Ausstellung. |
| 16 | 1914 |
Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. (Moskva : Tip. I.D. Sytina, 1914).
Er schreibt : "The Chinese are perfect yellow-faced positivists ; the Europeans are still imperfect white-faced Chinese. Here is the main 'yellow peril' – not outside, but inside ; not in China's coming to Europe, but in Europe's coing to China. Our faces are still white, but under the white skin there already flows not that previously thick, scarlet, Aryan blood, but a more and more 'yellow' blood similar to the Mongolian inchor. The shape of our eyes is straight but the look is beginning to squint, to narrow. And the straight white light of the European day is turning into an oblique 'yellow' light of the setting sun of China or the rising sun of Japan." |
| 17 | 1914 |
[Andreyev, Leonid Nikolaevich]. Hong xiao. Zhou Shoujuan yi. [ID D37669].
Zhou Shoujuan schreibt im Vorwort : "The great modern Russian author Leonidas Andreief was moved by his regret over the war between Japan and Russia to write The red laugh. His writing, stern and serene, does not stray from the path of the permanent, while his description of the misery of war even surpasses that of Li Hua in Dirge on an ancient battlefield. For a time, it was on the lips of readers all over the world, unanimously regarded as one of the modern masterpieces. That is why I translated it : so as to present it to our countrymen, and perhaps also to bring the tidings of world peace." "I have translated this piece very carefully. Whether names or paragraphs, structure or meaning – all follows the original text. I have not dared to cut or add at will. With a real masterpiece, as soon as its true is lost, it becomes worthless. This piece is full of hidden meaning. Readers should approach it earnestly to understand it, and in no case to read it in a careless and negligent manner." |
| 18 | 1914-1930 |
Henry K. Murphy designed several educational campuses in Chinese cities : University of Shanghai [University of Shanghai for Science and Technology], Tsinghua University, Beijing.
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| 19 | 1914-1918 |
Stanley Wilson works as Supervising Architect for Yale-China and supervised the construction of the new campus at Changsha, which included educational and medical buildings.
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| 20 | 1914 |
Wolfgang Limpricht nimmt an der Expedition von Walther Stötzner nach Tibet teil.
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