“Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Chinese civilization” (Publication, 2009)
Year
2009
Text
Wang, Dave. Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Chinese civilization.
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Contributors (1)
Wang, Dave
(um 2011) : Manager of Hollis Library, Adjunct Professor of St. Johns University, Queens New York
Mentioned People (3)
Franklin, Benjamin
(Boston 1706-1790 Philadelphia) : Staatsmann, Drucker, Verleger, Naturwissenschaftler, Erfinder, Naturphilosoph, Schriftsteller
Jefferson, Thomas
(Shadwell, Va. 1743-1826 Monticello, Va.) : Dritter Präsident Amerikas
Washington, George
(Wakefield, Westmoreland, Va. 1732-1799 Mount Vernon, Va.) : Erster Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika
Subjects
Literature : Occident : United States of America
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References / Sources
Chronology Entries (8)
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| 1 | 1724 | Benjamin Franklin borrowed money and traveled to London to buy a printing press. When he stayed in London, he was passionate about reading various works. It was in this period that Franklin contacted the Confucius moral work. He read The morals of Confucius (1691) [ID D26897]. |
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| 2 | 1733 | James Logan acquired for his personal library a copy of the first European printing of Confucius philosophy. |
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| 3 | 1752-1755 | Hugh Hamersley gothicised Woodside House, Berkshire, by laying cout a rococo wildness with an elegant Chinese kiosk, inspired by the House of Confucius at Kew. |
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| 4 | 1771 | Thomas Jefferson regarded Monticello, Near Charlottesville, Va. as a building, in which he could test his architectural ideas and experiments. He adopted a Chinese style, making drawings of Chinese lattice. |
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| 5 | 1785 |
George Washington : Diary July 8 (1785). Washington chose a good place next to the garden wall in his botanical garden and sowed the Chinese flowers seeds given by Mr. Porter and James Craik. He took a detailed record of the procedure he used to plant the seeds. His experiment failed : "Whether these plants are unfit for this climate, or whether covering and thereby hiding them entirely from the Sun the whole winter occasioned them to rot, I know not." |
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| 6 | 1788 | The Columbia Magazine ; May (1788) introduced to its readers to Confucius' filial piety. |
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| 7 | 1793 | The New Hampshire Magazine ; Sept. (1793) published an outstanding tribute to Confucius and Chinese religion. |
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| 8 | 1796 | Andreas Everard van Braam Houckgeest built a home near Philadelphia known as "China's retreat". The building adopted a Chinese-style cupola on the roof. The windows, similar to screen in Chinese homes, were double leaves that slid into pockets in the walls. Destruction in 1970. |
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