Jade : a study in Chinese archaeology and religion

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  Fifth Chinese daughter

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  Jade Snow Wong grew up in a traditional Chinese family in San Francisco's pre-World War II Chinatown. It was a world in which wives were introduced by their husbands as "my inferior woman," rules were taught with corporal punishment, and home life was literally connected to the family business. She becomes determined to go to college and gain more independence than she has been taught to expect. Her decision sets off a balancing process between cultures that Jade Snow Wong, in correct Chinese third person, explores with humor, reverence, and philosophical insight.

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  W – 3 items: "White Jade" (1926); "White Jade: Song" (1926); "White Jade: Chinese" (1926)

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  The majority of the collection deals with Vaughan's trip to the Orient (chiefly Japan, India and Indonesia) with Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers in 1925. Boxes 1 and 2 contain the following kind of material: Clifford Vaughan's music notebooks, photographs, postcards, booklets, maps, programs and ephemera all regarding the trip (much of the material is in Japanese). Also included is some ephemera about Clifford Vaughan (a biography of Vaughan, written after his death, and order forms for his music on CDs) and the Denishawn Dancers, mostly clippings, several publications owned by Vaughan, probably purchased during the trip, as well as programs for the Denishawn Dancers and a Tribute to Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn by "H. H." Box 1 also contains a folder of modern letters regarding the Denishawn Dancers and their history; these are between Jane Sherman Lehac, Margaret Vaughan Meyer, and Michelle Mathesius.

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  "Singhalese Mask Dance; White Jade (Chinese Pantomime) – Clifford Vaughan."

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  Subjects of the entire collection include: Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, American dance and dancers, dance instruction and notes, exercises and warm-up routines, various dance types (international as well as American), famous dancers from around the globe, Denishawn dancers, the Ruth St. Denis Center, the Ruth St. Denis Foundation, the Ruth St. Denis Theatre Intime, Jacob's Pillow dance festival, American Dance Film Association, Society of Spiritual Arts Church, the various teachers and pupils at St. Denis' dance studio and school, the Orient trip the Denishawn dancers took in 1926, as well as dance productions and events St. Denis put on throughout her career. There is also much material about St. Denis' effort to have her studio and school become a non-profit entity and her desire to create an artist colony in Hemet, California. More specifically, several dancers show up in the notebooks and photographs, including: Harold Kreutzberg, Peter di Falco, La Meri, Karoun Tootikian, Miriam Schiller, Jean Léon, Gladys Bowen, Antonio Gades, Devi Dja, Doris Humphrey, Mary Wigman, and Martha Graham.

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  a. "Singhalese Mask Dance; White Jade (Chinese Pantomime) – Clifford Vaughan."

  Manuscripts

  Subjects of the entire collection include: Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, American dance and dancers, dance instruction and notes, exercises and warm-up routines, various dance types (international as well as American), famous dancers from around the globe, Denishawn dancers, the Ruth St. Denis Center, the Ruth St. Denis Foundation, the Ruth St. Denis Theatre Intime, Jacob's Pillow dance festival, American Dance Film Association, Society of Spiritual Arts Church, the various teachers and pupils at St. Denis' dance studio and school, the Orient trip the Denishawn dancers took in 1926, as well as dance productions and events St. Denis put on throughout her career. There is also much material about St. Denis' effort to have her studio and school become a non-profit entity and her desire to create an artist colony in Hemet, California. More specifically, several dancers show up in the notebooks and photographs, including: Harold Kreutzberg, Peter di Falco, La Meri, Karoun Tootikian, Miriam Schiller, Jean Léon, Gladys Bowen, Antonio Gades, Devi Dja, Doris Humphrey, Mary Wigman, and Martha Graham.

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  Three essays on Mormons in Arizona [microform] : after 1913

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  Microfilm of three typescript essays by Evans Coleman, and which primarily trace the history of the Alpine, Nevada, area. The first essay, entitled "Firsts in Alpine," describes early events in shaping the settlement, including the arrival of the first settlers and the introduction of agricultural implements, a school, and mail service. The second essay, "Land Transactions in the Eighties," is a brief account of the influx of Mormon pioneers to the Alpine area and the decision of the first settler, a non-Mormon named Bush, to sell his land in the area. The final essay is a biography of Coleman's mother, Emma Beck Coleman (1840-1913). The account reads like an autobiography and is written in the first person as Emma. It describes the nomadic lifestyle Emma and her family were forced to lead as they faced persecution in Illinois and Missouri, and describes the hardships of traveling in wagons, specifically focusing on the discomfort suffered by the pack animals and Emma's recollections of going hungry. It briefly traces Emma's life in southern Utah, her move to Alpine, Arizona, in 1881, and her eventual settlement in Thatcher in the Gila Valley in 1899.

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  The junks and sampans of the Yangtze ; a study in Chinese nautical research

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  In the prefatory note to Mr. Worcester's earlier book -- "Junks and Sampans of the Upper Yangtze"-Sir Frederick Maze, former Inspector General of Customs, pointed out that the Chinese have probably shown more originality than any other people in connection with shipbuilding, and commented on their ingenuity in designing vessels to suit special requirements and different conditions. Mr. Worcester's present book, which deals with the craft of the Yangtze Estuary, provides further striking evidence of the high degree of specialization in design and function achieved by Chinese shipbuilders. Steam and internal combustion engines, with their superior speed and economy, have already supplanted the sail and the oar on certain routes and in certain types of vessels, and these developments must inevitably continue, but even to-day an immense tonnage of cargo, and uncounted thousands of passengers, are carried by the junks and sampans described in this book. -- Prefactory note.

  499066 no. 53-54.