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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Confucius Institute talk - The first Chinese books in L
 ondon: the collection of Sir Hans Sloane
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DESCRIPTION:This talk has had to be cancelled\, but we hope to reschedule
  it soon.\n\n With Dr Frances Wood\, Curator of Chinese Collections\, Th
 e British Library. The collections of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753)\, phys
 ician to Queen Anne and the man who introduced chocolate to a grateful B
 ritish public\, were used to found the British Museum. He collected ever
 ything from natural history specimens (stuffed alligators from his time 
 in Jamaica) to fine editions of the Bible and his printed book collectio
 n included a fine range of Chinese books from the late Ming and early Qi
 ng periods. Many collectors of the time had single Chinese volumes as 's
 pecimens' but Sloane's recently re-discovered Chinese collection ran fro
 m Buddhism and Confucianism through geography to literature and painting
  manuals\, most collected for him in China by members of the East India 
 Company who did not know a word of the language. Organised by The Confuc
 ius Institute.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Manchester Museum\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, Phone: 0161-27526
 48\, Email: museum@manchester.ac.uk
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