W Perceval Yetts
Biographic Data
| ID | 698036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Perceval Yetts |
| GIVEN NAMES | W Perceval |
| FAMILY NAME | Yetts |
| SIGNATURE | YETTS W P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1911 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
West' and 'East' and the Chou Dynasty
A Notable Chinese Bronze
As is usual with bronze inscriptions the terms of these two offer no decisive clue to the historical setting. Year, place, queen, chieftain, and court-official are named in a way which no doubt was adequate at the time of drafting when to name the reigning king would have been redundant. Without his name any attempt made now to correlate the terms and scanty history is only guesswork. On style we must base our judgment: style of the vessels' desi…
Lionel Charles Hopkins, I.S.O
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Edward Butts Howell
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Concerning Chinese Furniture
This neglected subject received a notable contribution lately from Professor Gustav Ecke in Peking. His Chinese Domestic Furniture is, I believe, the first attempt at an organized treatise (9). Existing literature was scanty. From Chinese sources there were sundry entries in encyclopædias, and chance allusions and woodcuts to be found in unexpected places. Specialized Western publications comprised only three portfolios of plates (3, 8, and 27), …
Henri Maspéro
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The Cull Chinese Bronzes
Notes on Flower Symbolism in China
Scant attention has been paid to this subject by Western writers, so even an incomplete approach to it may not come amiss. The field being far too wide for any attempt at comprehensiveness within the space of a short article, I have singled out the numerical categories, since they offer a fairly coherent and manageable group
George Eumorfopoulos
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Hon. Desmond Parsons
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Recent Finds near An-yang
Two years ago an attempt was made in these pages to give a general survey of archæological events since 1899 at An-yang, in the north of Ho-nan province. Though excavation was still in progress, and investigation of results far from ended, the great interest taken by Western students called for an interim statement. This was specially needed because most of the literature of the subject is written in Chinese. Besides the clandestine activities of…
Bird Script” on Ancient Chinese Swords
Hsü Shên in his postface to the Shuo wên gives a list of eight styles of script practised in the Ch'in period. The fourth of these is called ch'ung shu and a note is added by Hsü Ch'ieh one of the editors of the revised text which was published in a.d. 986 at the emperor's command. He remarks that the term is equivalent to niao shu “bird script”, so called because the tops of the characters represent bird forms. There is, however, tangible eviden…
The Shang-Yin Dynasty and the An-yang Finds
The fact seems strange that thirty years elapsed between the known discovery of inscribed bones and tortoise shells near An-yang and the first systematic exploration of the site. Towards the end of 1928 digging was begun by an expedition sent by the National Research Institute of History and Philology, and partly financed by the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. The work suffered from obstruction owing to the prevailing unrest; but s…
A Chinese Bronze Ritual Vessel
THE archaic Chinese bronze, which is the subject of this article, is in the collection of Captain the Hon. E. G. Spencer-Churchill. It belongs to the class called chüeh , which, among the ritual wine vessels, has the smallest capacity. A Chinese tradition assigns the origin of the peculiar shape to the form of a bird's head, and some support for this view is derived from supposed pictograms which are accepted as having been used to write chüeh in…
A Note on the “ Ying tsao fa shih
The vicissitudes suffered by this famous architectural treatise, and especially the sources of the splendid re-edition published in 1925 were the subject of an earlier article in the Bulletin (Vol. IV, Pt. Ill (1927), pp. 473–92). A happy chance throws new light on the 1925 edition and allows me to add this note to what was said before. It is the presence in England of a sixteenth century manuscript copy of a part of the Ying tsao fa shih . If th…
Exhibition of Chinese Art in Berlin
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A Chinese Treatise on Architecture
The chinese have held to the architectural standards of the past no less tenaciously than to other traditions of their ancient civilization. Buildings standing at the present day testify to this fact, and innumerable written records indicate a continuity of architectural practice lasting more than 2,000 years. The probability is that foreign importation has affected Chinese architecture least of all the arts
Links between Ancient China and the West
C HINESE historians have consistently fostered the notion that the civilization of their race is a spontaneous and indigenous product. Until recent years Western estimates have followed their lead, and our prevailing belief has been that this great civilization sprang from the soil of China and flourished little influenced by the outside world and scarcely changed since its glorious apogee in the Confucian era. Yet to accept this belief is to sup…
Professor Henri Cordier
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Public Health in Ancient China
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Books on China in the Hankow Club Library. 1922
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More Notes on the Eight Immortals
The following notes are intended to supplement an article written in 1912 and published in JRAS. for October, 1916, pp. 773–807. The theme then was the tradition of the group as generally accepted at the present day, and limitation of space confined the study to one hero-tale for each of the Eight. The tales were translated intact from an illustrated compilation of Taoist mythology which continues in popular favour and provides a fairly represent…
Chinese Tomb Jade
Outlines of Chinese Art. By John C. Ferguson. The Scammon Lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1918. Chicago
XXI. The Eight Immortals
One of the subjects beloved of Chinese artists is a venerable figure in an attitude of profound reverie shown as part of a wild and romantic scene of forest, crag, and torrent. Sometimes below his rocky hermitage there stretches a plain with far-off shadowy outlines of ordinary mortal habitations, of which the faint remoteness suggests the gulf separating him from mundane cares and vanities. Looking at such a one, instinct tells us that he feels,…
George Eumorfopoulos
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Bird Script” on Ancient Chinese Swords
Hsü Shên in his postface to the Shuo wên gives a list of eight styles of script practised in the Ch'in period. The fourth of these is called ch'ung shu and a note is added by Hsü Ch'ieh one of the editors of the revised text which was published in a.d. 986 at the emperor's command. He remarks that the term is equivalent to niao shu “bird script”, so called because the tops of the characters represent bird forms. There is, however, tangible eviden…
The Shang-Yin Dynasty and the An-yang Finds
The fact seems strange that thirty years elapsed between the known discovery of inscribed bones and tortoise shells near An-yang and the first systematic exploration of the site. Towards the end of 1928 digging was begun by an expedition sent by the National Research Institute of History and Philology, and partly financed by the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. The work suffered from obstruction owing to the prevailing unrest; but s…
More Notes on the Eight Immortals
The following notes are intended to supplement an article written in 1912 and published in JRAS. for October, 1916, pp. 773–807. The theme then was the tradition of the group as generally accepted at the present day, and limitation of space confined the study to one hero-tale for each of the Eight. The tales were translated intact from an illustrated compilation of Taoist mythology which continues in popular favour and provides a fairly represent…
XIX. Notes on the Disposal of Buddhist Dead in China
In China the corpse of a Buddhist priest is commonly disposed of by one of three methods, viz.: cremation, burial, or preservation by drying
Ian C. HannahM.A., Eastern Asia, A History. London
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La Grande Artère de la Chine
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XIX. Notes on the Disposal of Buddhist Dead in China
In China the corpse of a Buddhist priest is commonly disposed of by one of three methods, viz.: cremation, burial, or preservation by drying
Ars Asiatica. Vol
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XXI. The Eight Immortals
One of the subjects beloved of Chinese artists is a venerable figure in an attitude of profound reverie shown as part of a wild and romantic scene of forest, crag, and torrent. Sometimes below his rocky hermitage there stretches a plain with far-off shadowy outlines of ordinary mortal habitations, of which the faint remoteness suggests the gulf separating him from mundane cares and vanities. Looking at such a one, instinct tells us that he feels,…
The Chinese Isles of the Blest
g N alte rnative title for this paper might suitably be " A "dy m Universal Folk-Lore " ; for the subject offers not e ty a fascinating page in oriental myth and legend, but strung common to all races in their imaginings of a Ppy Otherworld, and I propose, while investigating an ent Chinese belief, to draw some analogies between a \V Cm Western tradition. denf 0 about to entcr a realm Ii** 10 explored by occien a[s, a world of wizards, alchemists…
Outlines of Chinese Art. By John C. Ferguson. The Scammon Lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1918. Chicago
More Notes on the Eight Immortals
The following notes are intended to supplement an article written in 1912 and published in JRAS. for October, 1916, pp. 773–807. The theme then was the tradition of the group as generally accepted at the present day, and limitation of space confined the study to one hero-tale for each of the Eight. The tales were translated intact from an illustrated compilation of Taoist mythology which continues in popular favour and provides a fairly represent…
Chinese Tomb Jade
Books on China in the Hankow Club Library. 1922
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Public Health in Ancient China
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Professor Henri Cordier
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Links between Ancient China and the West
C HINESE historians have consistently fostered the notion that the civilization of their race is a spontaneous and indigenous product. Until recent years Western estimates have followed their lead, and our prevailing belief has been that this great civilization sprang from the soil of China and flourished little influenced by the outside world and scarcely changed since its glorious apogee in the Confucian era. Yet to accept this belief is to sup…
A Chinese Treatise on Architecture
The chinese have held to the architectural standards of the past no less tenaciously than to other traditions of their ancient civilization. Buildings standing at the present day testify to this fact, and innumerable written records indicate a continuity of architectural practice lasting more than 2,000 years. The probability is that foreign importation has affected Chinese architecture least of all the arts
Exhibition of Chinese Art in Berlin
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A Note on the “ Ying tsao fa shih
The vicissitudes suffered by this famous architectural treatise, and especially the sources of the splendid re-edition published in 1925 were the subject of an earlier article in the Bulletin (Vol. IV, Pt. Ill (1927), pp. 473–92). A happy chance throws new light on the 1925 edition and allows me to add this note to what was said before. It is the presence in England of a sixteenth century manuscript copy of a part of the Ying tsao fa shih . If th…
The Shang-Yin Dynasty and the An-yang Finds
The fact seems strange that thirty years elapsed between the known discovery of inscribed bones and tortoise shells near An-yang and the first systematic exploration of the site. Towards the end of 1928 digging was begun by an expedition sent by the National Research Institute of History and Philology, and partly financed by the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. The work suffered from obstruction owing to the prevailing unrest; but s…
A Chinese Bronze Ritual Vessel
THE archaic Chinese bronze, which is the subject of this article, is in the collection of Captain the Hon. E. G. Spencer-Churchill. It belongs to the class called chüeh , which, among the ritual wine vessels, has the smallest capacity. A Chinese tradition assigns the origin of the peculiar shape to the form of a bird's head, and some support for this view is derived from supposed pictograms which are accepted as having been used to write chüeh in…
Bird Script” on Ancient Chinese Swords
Hsü Shên in his postface to the Shuo wên gives a list of eight styles of script practised in the Ch'in period. The fourth of these is called ch'ung shu and a note is added by Hsü Ch'ieh one of the editors of the revised text which was published in a.d. 986 at the emperor's command. He remarks that the term is equivalent to niao shu “bird script”, so called because the tops of the characters represent bird forms. There is, however, tangible eviden…
Recent Finds near An-yang
Two years ago an attempt was made in these pages to give a general survey of archæological events since 1899 at An-yang, in the north of Ho-nan province. Though excavation was still in progress, and investigation of results far from ended, the great interest taken by Western students called for an interim statement. This was specially needed because most of the literature of the subject is written in Chinese. Besides the clandestine activities of…
Hon. Desmond Parsons
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George Eumorfopoulos
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Notes on Flower Symbolism in China
Scant attention has been paid to this subject by Western writers, so even an incomplete approach to it may not come amiss. The field being far too wide for any attempt at comprehensiveness within the space of a short article, I have singled out the numerical categories, since they offer a fairly coherent and manageable group
The Cull Chinese Bronzes
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