China

Abstract:

This collection is comprised of publications, field notes, photographs, and correspondence by Joseph Francis Charles Rock. Rock worked as a botanist, anthropologist, explorer, linguist, and author for various agencies while travelling in Asia. Rock’s affiliation with the Arnold arboretum was that of a researcher in China and Tibet from 1924-1927. The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, records, and images developed during that visit

Content Description: Includes unpublished memoir, 1956, (325 pp.) describing Canaday's experiences in China in the 1920's; correspondence containing his observations on the social, political and economic climate prevailing in China at the time and notes pertaining to his business activities there; ca. 200 photographs, mostly of North China, and also some depicting the funeral of Sun Yat-sen; 9 scrapbooks, chronologically arranged, containing memorabilia and 27 notebooks, most relating to China. Also monograph on...