The History of the Chinese Collections in the British Library

南大中文系|中文图书馆 联办

Seminar co-organized by Division of Chinese and Chinese Library

主讲人： Speaker	吴芳思博士 Dr. Frances WoodKeynote speaker of Imagining Asia Symposium 2015Lead Curator (until retirement in 2013) of Chinese Collections at the British Library
主持人：Moderator	关诗珮 Uganda Sze Pui KwanAssociate Professor of Division of Chinese, NTU

讲座以中文进行 Seminar is conducted in Chinese

 

大英图书馆中文馆藏的历史

The History of the Chinese Collections in the British Library

 

2015年1月15日 周四下午3:00—4:30 人文与社会科学图书馆

15 January, 2015 (Thursday) 3p.m. – 4:30p.m. HSS Library @S4-B3c-05

 

主讲人简介 About the speaker

吴芳思（Frances WOOD）博士1967年入学利物浦艺术学校，曾先后在剑桥大学、北京大学学习华文，在伦敦大学亚非学院获得博士学位。1977年进入伦敦大英图书馆工作，负责管理中国典藏，并出任中文部主任，直到2013年退休。吴芳思博士曾在英国多个博物馆授课并多次参与“英国广播公司”节目。她还出版了多部关于中国和中国文化的专著，如：《马可波罗到过中国吗？》、《紫禁城》等。目前，她正在撰写一本关于汉语写作的新书。

Frances WOOD studied art at Liverpool Art School, and Chinese at Newnham College, Cambridge, before a year in Peking University and a PhD on Beijing courtyard houses at SOAS, London. She worked in SOAS library and then as Curator of the Chinese Collections in the British Library until retiring last year. She has lectured in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and participated in a number of BBC ‘In Our Time’ programmes. She has written a number of books on China and Chinese culture including: Did Marco Polo go to China?, The Forbidden City, The Silk Road and Picnics Prohibited: diplomacy in a chaotic China during the First World War (2014). She is currently working on a book intended to introduce more Chinese writing (from Laozi to the 20th century) tentatively entitled The Sixty Best Chinese Books.

 

演讲大纲 About the Seminar:

汉斯·斯隆（Hans Sloane 1660-1753）爵士既是医师又是收藏家。他在牙买加行医时开始他的自然历史标本收藏，后来扩大到收藏各类人种学资料，其中以图书和手稿为主。斯隆爵士去世后，其收藏品成为大英博物馆的重要馆藏，而他收集的中文图书，作为英国首批重要的华文藏书，会有哪些惊喜呢？

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was a medical doctor and collector. He started with natural history specimens when he served as a doctor in Jamaica but his collection grew to encompass ethnographic items of all sorts with books and manuscripts at the core. Acquired for the nation after his death, his magpie gatherings formed the most significant of the founding collections of the British Museum. His collection of Chinese books, the first substantial grouping in the United Kingdom, may come as a surprise.