{"id":1721,"date":"2013-11-20T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T10:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2013-11-20T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T10:17:30","slug":"chinese-rare-books-on-display-for-peking-university-at-edinburgh-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2013\/11\/20\/chinese-rare-books-on-display-for-peking-university-at-edinburgh-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese rare books on display for Peking University at Edinburgh Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/Inglis-23resized.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1723\" alt=\"Inglis-23\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/Inglis-23resized-300x225.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/Inglis-23resized-300x225.gif 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/Inglis-23resized-400x300.gif 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New College Library was\u00a0part of the University of Edinburgh&#8217;s Peking at Edinburgh day on Monday 18 November\u00a0with a display of Chinese items from our Special Collections. These included the beautiful <em>Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting<\/em> (Inglis 23). This is a classic treatise of calligraphic art on silk, by calligraphers Wen-Yuan T&#8217;ang and Chin-Ch&#8217;ang in 1682.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/Inglis-20resized.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1724\" alt=\"Inglis 20\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/Inglis-20resized-300x225.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/Inglis-20resized-300x225.gif 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/Inglis-20resized-400x300.gif 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Also on display was Robert Morrison&#8217;s Chinese New Testament (Inglis 20). Robert Morrison (1782\u20131834) arrived in\u00a0China in\u00a0September 1807, on the commission\u00a0of the\u00a0London Missionary Society first to learn Chinese, and then to make a Chinese translation of the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/CSWCresized.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1725\" alt=\"CSWC\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/CSWCresized-300x225.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/CSWCresized-300x225.gif 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/11\/CSWCresized-400x300.gif 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We were also pleased to have on display a rare item from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity Archives, an Imperial Edition of the New Testament. Thank you to Dr Alexander Chow for providing this information about the item :<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a rare\u00a0edition of the New Testament presented by a group of female missionaries to the Empress Dowager Cixi, on the occasion of her 60th birthday in 1894. The Bible is a Shangdi edition of the Delegates Version, printed in classical wenli Chinese by the American Bible Society. This particular copy was presented to the Church of Scotland missions hospital by the American Bible Society in October 1903. There were 250 copies of this Bible printed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New College Library was\u00a0part of the University of Edinburgh&#8217;s Peking at Edinburgh day on Monday 18 November\u00a0with a display of Chinese items from our Special Collections. These included the beautiful Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting (Inglis 23). 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