{"id":875,"date":"2022-12-16T15:56:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/?p=875"},"modified":"2022-12-16T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T14:56:17","slug":"china-books-christmas-calendar-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"China books Christmas calendar (16)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1872-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"191\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"876\" src=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1872-191x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1872-191x1024.jpeg 191w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1872-56x300.jpeg 56w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1872-382x2048.jpeg 382w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1872-scaled.jpeg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1873-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"792\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"877\" src=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1873-792x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1873-792x1024.jpeg 792w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1873-232x300.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1873-768x993.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1873-1188x1536.jpeg 1188w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1873-1585x2048.jpeg 1585w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1873-scaled.jpeg 1981w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Samuel Couling (1859-1922) was a British missionary to China, a large part of his time working in Shandong province \u5c71\u4e1c\u7701<span style=\"font-size: revert;\">. Together with American missionary colleague <\/span>Frank Herring Chalfant (1862\u20131914) ha was also an early collector of &#8221;oracle bones&#8221; \u7532\u9aa8 <em>jiagu<\/em>. Their joint <a href=\"https:\/\/britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk\/asian-and-african\/2014\/06\/the-couling-chalfant-collection-of-oracle-bones-in-the-british-library.html\">Couling-Chalfant collection of oracle bones<\/a> was gathered 1903-1908, and is kept at the British Library in London. Chalfant is credited with the invention of the English name &#8221;oracle bones&#8221;, supposedly first used in his book <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/earlychinesewrit00chalrich\/mode\/2up\"><em>Early Chinese Writing<\/em> from 1906<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1874-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1874-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1874-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1874-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1874-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1874-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1874-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1875-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"879\" src=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1875-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1875-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1875-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1875-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1875-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1875-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1876-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"880\" src=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1876-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1876-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/boke.fallmankonsult.se\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_1876-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1917 Couling published the one-volume <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/encyclopaediasin00couluoft\">Encyclopaedia Sinica<\/a> <\/em>with Kelly &amp; Walsh, a Shanghai based publisher of English language books still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swindonbooks.com\/index.asp?from=www.kellyandwalsh.com\">remaining in Hong Kong as a book seller (under Swindon)<\/a>. The <em>Encyclopaedia<\/em> covered many important aspects of China-related topics from a Western perspective. One might imagine that an encyclopaedia covering China in a wide sense would have been at least ten volumes, but it is only one with concise descriptions. Our copy is the original 1917 edition, and while in reasonably good shape it has indeed seen some usage. The <em>Encyclopaedia <\/em>became a classic, and has been reprinted several times, even as late as 1984 by Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Couling (1859-1922) was a British missionary to China, a large part of his time working in Shandong province \u5c71\u4e1c\u7701. Together with American missionary colleague Frank Herring Chalfant (1862\u20131914) ha was also an early collector of &#8221;oracle bones&#8221; \u7532\u9aa8 jiagu. 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