Pope, Arthur Upham, Sir, 1881 - 1969 (Knight, archaeologist and historian of Persian art)
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence with Arthur Upham Pope of The Asia Institute, Connecticut, U.S.A., 1947-03 - 1955-09-02
Pope's letters praise Joseph Needham's work and discuss work by Lauriston Ward entitled including an article entitled 'Relative Chronology of China'. The documents also include a copy of a letter sent by Pope to Ward about the article; copy of a letter by Pope published in the 'New York Herald Tribune' entitled 'Far East Crisis', 1 May 1955; copy of Pope's reply to a 'review by Maenchen of Dr. Ackerman's work on the ritual bronzes', published in the 'The Art Bulletin', March 1947.
Correspondence with Prof. Arthur Upham Pope of the International Association for Iranian Art and Archaeology about the Association's 4th Congress, 1959-09-20 - 1960-04-06
Letter from Arthur Upham Pope of New York discussing 'Dr. Ackerman's research on the beginnings of Chinese culture' and other matters, 1945-11-30
The letter is written to Joseph Needham at the British Scientific Mission, Chungking, China. Other matters discussed include 'the Chinese archaeologist to whom you introduced me in Leningrad', (Joseph Needham has noted in the margin that this was Kuo Mo-Rjo [郭沫若 / Kuo Mo-Jo / Guo Mouro]); the political situation in China.
Letter from Arthur Upham Pope of The Asia Institute, Pahlavi University, Shiraz, Iran inviting Joseph Needham to attend a colloquium on the 'Diffusion of Persian Art across Eurasia' and copy of Needham's reply, 1969-03-31 - 1969-04-15
This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.