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0075 3 HSI-EHIAD HUTUNG FEIPING, CHINA September 13th, 1938. Dear Dr, Andersson, Under separate cover I am sending you reprints of two recent papers which I prepared at the request of two of our local Societies, When Dr, Khaw, President of the Natural History Society, invited me to deliver the adäress at the Annual Meeting this year, I remembered yours of last year and a previous one by Pére Breul...
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0075 3 HSI-EHIAD HUTUNG FEIPING, CHINA September 13th, 1938. Dear Dr, Andersson, Under separate cover I am sending you reprints of two recent papers which I prepared at the request of two of our local Societies, When Dr, Khaw, President of the Natural History Society, invited me to deliver the adäress at the Annual Meeting this year, I remembered yours of last year and a previous one by Pére Breull, and I told him that I was not a scientist; I said that I should feel like Saul among the prophets, if I dared to accept his Anvitation, but when he sbggested my topic as "The Oracle Bones" I consented, for to that tople I had devoted much study. My review of the Bones naturally led me into the field of speculation where I have never before allowed myself to saunter. You will see from my paper the result of my stroll. In the course of my remarks I referred to your finds at Yangshao, which to me have always appeared to be the first reallization of a hope that I had cherished for many years,OM many occasions I had called attention to the necessity for excavations and discussed the matter seriously with Ur, Charles Freer, when he first proposed the scheme of an American School in, Peking similar to the American Schools in Rome and Athens. You may remember my hearty congratulations when I met you with Sowerby in Shanghai after your return from your notable trip. In suggesting in my paper that there were two kinds of painted pottery which you found at Yang- shao and emphasizing the importance of this fact, I hope that you Will agree with me that it does not detract one atom from the great value of your finds, I have only gone further than you in my suggestions that the bowls and jars with painted surfaces were brought there by some nomad tribe, kos gapasn sa from Anau to Tripolje, to Yangshao, to Sha-kuo-' . My examination of these specimens has led me to believe that these pleces were not made of clay from the: country near Yangshao, and even if it is granted that they are of the same clay, their occurence in other widely separated places points to their having been carried about by nomads. They are also in contrast to the other examples of palnted ware found by you and others at Yangshao, which are of the same varlety as articles found at Anyang and Ch'&ng-tzå-yal. It therefore seems to me best to call the
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bo76 finds of these three places "Shang" civilization rather than "Yangshao" on the same general principle by which I prefer "Ch'in" to "Hwai" in deseribing a certain type of bronze vessels, In both i...
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bo76 finds of these three places "Shang" civilization rather than "Yangshao" on the same general principle by which I prefer "Ch'in" to "Hwai" in deseribing a certain type of bronze vessels, In both instances the terms preferred by me describe in broad terms a historical period. My studies lead me to the general conclusion that probably the earliest contact between the East and West was through Northern India and not across Central Asia. It has taken us a long time to get away from Lacouperie's fanciful idea that China's civilization came from the West, but the break must be final and irrevocable. I hope that my proposition concerning the greater importance of the three thousand Chinese ideographs of the l4th century B. C. as compared with the stone monuments of Egypt, the buried cities along the Tigris and Euphrates or all artifacts will commend itself to you. As far as I know, it is a new theory in anthropology, but it seems to me sound and reasonable, on the principle that the product of the mind must be considered greater than the Work of man's hands. Thesé oracle bone inseriptions seem to me to be the greatest monument of all ancient history. With best regarås and all good wishes Yours sincerely bg
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