Examples (Details)
Eugene Opie Papers
Box: A – American Bureau for Medical Aid for China. No. 1.
Folder: American Bureau for Medical Aid to China(ABMAC) #1>
American Bureau for Medical Aid to China
Headquarters Budget for Calendar Year 1943
Folder: Amer. Bur. For Med to China. Board of Directors
[Appendix to Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of ABMAC. Feb. 10, 1944.]
…Of China’s many difficulties during the period of war, finance has been one…Due to the fact that China’s medical profession is not strong and most doctors, especially those practicing outside of the big cities, are underpaid and in many instances carry on merely because of love of their profession, there has been almost no opposition to the measure taken with a view of establishing a state supported health system [this refers to the KMT & Chiang Kai-Shek, with who ABMAC worked, and not the Communists. At this point the civil was had not yet concluded]…
In all its efforts on behalf of Chinese public health the Government is faced with certain specific problems. There is the rivalry between old and modern medicine. The old practitioner has still a very considerable public following in China. The number of practitioners is much larger than that of modern doctors. The practitioner also usually charges less and his prescriptions are cheaper and more easily obtained than those of the modern doctor…
The most serious problem, however, is that China’s supply of doctors and nurses is far from sufficient…There are districts which have a budget for public health centers but are unable to secure a qualified doctor, and sometimes they finally engage an old practitioner…
Another problems is the manufacture of drugs. China is too dependent on importation.
Elisha Kent Papers
Box: 5
Folder: China miscellaneous 1, 1844
[Extract of letter of June 16th, 1844]
The English gentlemen were driven out of the Company’s garden last night by some Chinese with [?] and stones.
[Extract of letter June 17th]
When will riots cease in Canton! We are hourly expecting another in continuation of one which commenced on the afternoon of the 15th when several English gentlemen had to retreat from the Company’s garden into boats on the river – It was renewed again last evening and the foreigners were driven from the American garden. Several shots were fired and one Chinese killed. Chops are up today stating that unless $2000 are paid before night the Factories will be burnt.
[Extract of letter June 21st]
All quiet today the mandarins with a large force keep the rabble from the factories – High walls about the factories are talked of now & I hope something will be done.
[Extract of letter June 22nd]
We have no trouble here today – the mandarins keep the gates at each end of the walk in front closed and let no one but businessmen pass through – this is as it should be and if they will continue it I do not fear for the present but have no doubt we shall be burned? out when the N.E. monsoon sets in C___ is of the same opinion but does not fear fire till then.
[Extract of letter June 25th]
Everything continues quiet tho [sic] the mob are far from being satisfied. W___ was just in the office, and tells me there has been an interview this morning between one of the high Mandarins [?...] and that [?...] wants to find the foreigner who killed the man and simply to ask the question “Did you shoot that man?” It appears to be reviving the old Chinese policy of demanding life for life and if they once get a foreigner inside of the city we can easily fancy what will become of him – I think if W. Cushing is firm with Kyung this affair may be used to advantage – that is – our position, rights, and privileges will be better defined and whether we are to be submissive to a Chinese mob – the worst of all mobs – or if we are to be permitted to defend ourselves will be settled.
[Extract of letter June 29th]
The Chinese seem to be waiting Kyung’s return before a settlement of the matter of the death of the Chinese can be had – they want a man to be given up – they do not care who. It appears to me that the only way is to take a high stand with them & put all the blame on the Mandarins where it belongs telling them that if they do not keep a better watch on their people and better order in future – a great many people will be killed.
Benjamin Smith Lyman Papers (1835-1920)
[From “The Benjamin Lyman Smith Collection in the University Library of Massachusetts at Amherst]
As a part of the modernizing process [that is, modernization and ‘westernization’ under the Emperor Meiji], the Bureau of Development for Hokkaido—the Kaitakushi—invited a cadre of Western specialists to Japan’s northernmost island to introduce modern techniques, especially in the fields of agriculture, engineering, medicine, and geological research. One of the Americans, Benjamin Smith Lyman (1835-1920), a native of Northampton, Massachusetts, went as Chief Geologist and Mining Engineer to conduct the first survey of Hokkaido for significant mineral deposits. He carried with him both the skills and the attitudes of a well-educated Yankee scientist of his era.
The Books of the Fairs
589. Japan. London
A descriptive catalog of the exhibits of the Sanitary Bureau of the Japanese Home Department…The exhibits are primarily of food, dress, and housing. Reel 77, no. 6.
910. Descriptive catalogue of exhibits relating to the fisheries of Japan at the World’s Columbian Exposition held at Chicago
A descriptive catalog of Japanese exhibits of cultivated fish and other animals.
929. Explanation of the Japanese lady’s boudoir. Chicago.
A brief description and a catalog of a Japanese domestic exhibit.
Reel 105, No. 13
957. The history and an account of the prisons of the Empire of Japan
A short history of Japanese prisons from medieval times to the nineteenth century followed by a description of the contemporary prison system.
Reel 107, No. 11
965. Illustrated guide to the world’s fair and Chicago.
A visitor’s guide to the exposition grounds, state buildings, and foreign buildings…[Page 155: “In an attempt to overcome the era’s prejudice against the Chinese, the Wah Mee Exposition Co. built a theater, bazaar, and this temps, or Chinese joss house, at the west end of the Midway at the World’s Columbian Exhibition”]
1323-1328. Guides to the Buffalo Pan-American Exhibition of 1901
The exhibition included a Japanese Pavilion (page 192)
A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
668. Peter J. Lesley. (B/L56; L56.1)
He was a Unitarian, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, with whom he often corresponded. Emerson also corresponded with Benjamin Lyman. Lesley was interested in Javanese and East Indian words and customs.