HANDOUT Rare Books and Manuscripts
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HANDOUT Rare Books and Manuscripts
COLUMBIA GSAPP FALL 2016 / A4620 BUILDING CHINA MODERN / 1919-1958: EXPERIMENTS FOR A NEW PARADIGM Amy Lelyveld ([email protected]) RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS VISIT / ORDER OF THE CITY 1544 Chinae Pars Silver mines discovered in Potosi, Peru. Copernicus dies. Queen Catherine Howard executed in England. Mary Queen of Scotts ascends throne. Portuguese land in Japan and bring firearms. St. Francis Xavier (canonized 1602) arrives at Goa as a Jesuit missionary. First Protestant burnt at the stake by Spanish Inquisition. Holbein. Titian. Cellini. Watteau. Fischer von Erlach. Daniel Defoe. Cotton Mather. 1595 Pan Asia / China Tintoretto. Caravaggio. Galileo’s Golden Rule and his invention of the thermometer. Henry IV declares war on Spain. Dutch begin to colonize East Indies. Shakespeare writes “Richard II” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Tomatoes introduced to England. First water closets (Sir John Harrington for the Queens’s Palace, Richmond). Ralph Titch (English traveller) returns from overland journey to India and Ceylon. James Lancaster, (English navigator) breaks Portuguese monopoly on trade with India. Mercator’s Atlas published (posthumously). Sir Walter Raleigh explores 300 miles up Orinoco River (South America). 1700 “Amsterdam” University of Venice founded. Berlin Academy of Science founded, Leibniz is elected president. Yale Collegiate School founded in Saybrook, Connecticut / Yale College in New Haven. Development of Kabuki Theater in Japan. King James III enthroned in England. 1834 China and the Birman Empire With Parts of Cochin-China and Siam Spanish Inquisition finally suppressed. South Australia act allows establishment of colony there. Monopoly of British East India Company in China abolished. Abraham Lincoln enters politics as assemblyman in Illinois Legislature. National Gallery, London goes into construction. Abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Balzac. Hugo’s “Hunchback of Notre Dame” becomes a bestseller. Mendelssohn. Chopin. Ingres. Berlioz. Lloyds becomes register of shipping. 1897 The Century Atlas. Chinese Empire Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. J.J.Thompson discovers the electron. Germany occupies Guizhou in N. China. Russia occupies Port Arthur. “Boxer” formed. Sir Henry Tate donates the “Tate Gallery.” Matisse. Rodin. Conrad. Kipling. H.G.Wells. G.B. Shaw. 1939-45 No. 133-K’un-Ming, Yunnan, China to Chabua, Assam, India (Western Portion) TO BE FILLED IN…………………………. B899.621 D2392 Atlas Chinensis: Being a second part of a relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Vice-roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi and to Knochi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary B899.63 D8821 Description Geographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique De L’empire De La Chine Et De La Tartarie Chinoise B899.63 D88211 Nouvel Atlas De La Chine, De La Tartarie Chinoise Et Du Thibet B899.621 St22 An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China B910.4 m462 Voyages de la Chine a la Cote Nord-ouest d’Amerique, Fait Dans les Annees 1788 et 1789 G2306.G1F3 1917g Shanghai Yuan Don Di Li Xue Hui. The New Atlas and Commercial Gazetteer of China; a work devoted to its geography & resources and economic development