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The correspondence is between Quam-Wickham, Lu Gwei-Djen and Joseph Needham. Quam-Wickham's letters describe his work and his frustration at the lack of interest shown towards it. The documents also include a paper written by Quam-Wickham on the subject.

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The correspondence comprises 1 letter from Sivin; copy of part of a letter of reply from Joseph Needham. The related documents comprise Needham's draft of the letter; related notes by Lu Gwei-Djen.

Scope and Contents The correspondence comprises 1 letter and part of 1 letter from Sivin; copies of 2 letters from Joseph Needham. The related documents comprise a typed list of 'Articles by European and American Scholars on Chinese Science for Translation into Japanese'; copy of a letter from Lu Gwei-Djen to Heinemann Educational Books, asking for permission to translate into Japanese her article 'The Inner Elxir (Nei Tan); Chinese Physiological Alchemy' originally published in the Joseph Needham...

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The correspondence comprises 1 letter from Hawkes; copy of 1 letter from Joseph Needham.

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The correspondence comprises a letter from Qi to Lu Gwei-Djen; copy of a letter from Qi to Joseph Needham; copy of a letter of reply from Lu.
The letter also accompanied a paper by Qi on the 《飲膳正要》 [Yin Shan Cheng Yao / Yin Shan Zheng Yao].

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The documents also include notes written by Lu Gwei-Djen summarising the content of Chang and Lü's letter.

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The correspondence comprises 5 letters from Chang; copy of 1 letter from Joseph Needham.
The related documents comprise handwritten copies of papers by Chang on the subject; English summaries of Chang's letters prepared by Lu Gwei-Djen; cuttings of 'China Daily' articles by Chang entitled 'Proof of Chinese-American Contacts' and 'Sun-worship drove Chinese eastward'

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The correspondence comprises 1 letter from Hu; copy of 1 letter from Joseph Needham.
Other matters disucssed include Chinese journals on agriculture; Chinese publications relating to botany. The documents also include a page of related notes by Needham; English summary of Hu's letter written by Lu Gwei-Djen.

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This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

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The article discusses Joseph Needham's lecture. The related documents comprise a copy Hu's report on the Newcomen Tercentenary celebrations published in 《科學史研究動態》; Lu Gwei-Djen notes on the content of a letter received from Hu about Needham's Newcomen lecture.

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The 'Dictionary' is handwritten in a notebook. Several pages of notes are included as loose inserts. Also loosley inserted is a Christmas gift tag from Muriel [Moyle] to Lu Gwei-Djen.

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This part is subtitled, 'The Invention of 'Dishing'.

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This part is subtitled 'Scenes in the Workshop'. The paper was published in 'Physis', 1959.

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The documents comprise a postcard from Joseph Needham to C. D. Sheldon of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, enquiring about the author and his work; notes by Sheldon; notes by Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen.

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The contribution was entitled 'The Inner Elixir (Nei Tan); Chinese Physiological Alchemy'. The documents comprise 2 drafts of the paper; lists of Chinese characters for the paper; copy of a letter from Lu to Dr. Mikulas Teich, originally accompanying a copy of her contribution; letter from Paul Richardson of Heineman Educational Books Ltd to Lu, about the correction of proofs for the contribution; copy of Lu's reply to Richardson.

Scope and Contents The documents comprise Lu Gwei-Djen's note of telephone conversation with Philip Mao about the collapse of the conference and the possible arrangements for the conferment of Joseph Needham's honorary degree in October 1982; telex message from Peter Lee about the visit; copy of Needham's telexed reply; copy of a letter from Needham to Mao, about the arrangements; letter from Ho Peng-Yoke to Ma Lin of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, about the cancellation of the conference and plans for...

Scope and Contents The documents comprise notes on mixed late Chinese and western 'Materia Medica', including a typed extract from a 1949 letter from Charles Singer describing such a volume held at the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, London; other notes by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen; copy of a letter from Needham to the Librarian of the Bib. Nat. Courant, France, requesting photocopies from the 'Pên Tshao Pu [本草補 / Ben Cao Bu], (1697), (5 March 1967); table showing 本草 [Pen Tshao / Ben Cao]...

Scope and Contents The documents comprise notes by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen; photographs of two manuscripts of the 'Pên Tshao Phin Hui Ching Yao [本草品彚精要 / Ben Cao Pin Hui Ching Yao] and related notes; notes on the 《本草蒙荃》 [Pên Tshao Meng Chhüan / Ben Cao Meng Quan] made by Ting Chih-Kang [丁志剛 / Ding Zhigang] at Peking Library, 30 September 1964; typescript 'Biography of Li Shih-Chen [李時珍 / Li Shizhen]' prepared by Lu Gwei-Djen, (Joseph Needham notes 'for full notes & correspondence see special FILE...

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The documents comprise notes by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen.

Scope and Contents The file contains a letter from Reuben Levy of Cambridge, providing translations of Persian inscriptions about the pulse, (23 December 1954) and copy of Joseph Needham's reply, (26 December 1954); typescript translation of a biography of Pien Chhio [扁鵲 / Pian Que] from the 'Shih Chi [史記 / Shi Ji]'; copy of notes by M. J. Hagerty on 氣 [Chhi / Qi] and copy of his translation of the relevant entry in 'Cyclopedia of Chinese Medicine'; copy of a Lu Gwei-Djen review of Chou Feng-Wu [周鳳捂 / Zhou...

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The documents comrpise a photocoy of a chapter entitled 'The Private History of Queen Feiyen' from Lin Yü-Thang [林語堂 / Lin Yutang], 'The Wisdom of China', (London, 1944); notes by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen.

Scope and Contents The documents comprise notes by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen; copy of a chart prepared by Kimura Koichi providing an historical bibliography of the 本草 [Pen Tshao / Ben Cao] literature, (Tokyo, 1942); notes of literature held in the library of Dr. Ching Li-Pin; copy of a letter from Joseph Needham to John Lust , Librarian of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, enquiring about relevant works, (19 October 1966); 2 letters from Lust, (23 and 26 October 1966)Specific...

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The notes are by Lu Gwei-Djen. The file also includes notes on 'individual illnesses'.

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The notes are mostly by Lu Gwei-Djen.

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These include notes on 'Shunyu I's cases', 'Problems discussed in 'Shang Hai Lun' and 'Nei Ching'', 'Characters for diseases on oracle bones', 'G-D's Chart of General Development of Ancient Medicine'.