Contents: Introduction / Arnold Toynbee -- Signs and meanings: Chinese writing through four millenia / E. Glahn -- The middle kingdom: Chinese politics and society from the Bronze Age to the Manchus / D.C. Twichett -- Beyond the wall: China's relations with her northern neighbors / Owen Lattimore -- The Path to wisdom: Chinese philosophy and religion / Wing Tsit-chan -- The empirical tradition: science and technology in China / S. Nakayama -- Worlds and language: the Chinese literary tradition / James J.Y. Liu -- Chinese culture overseas: Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Tibet / Zenryu Tsukamoto -- Feudal Japan: Politics and society from the eighth century to 1868 / Charles D. Sheldon -- Cult and Creed: Religion in Japan before the Meiji / Carmen Blacker -- A literature of the court and people: Japanese poetry, drama and the novel before the Meiji / Donald Keene -- Europe goes East: the first impact of the West on China and Japan / Paul A. Cohen -- A new role for Japan: the Meiji revolution and its sequel / Y. Toriumi -- Rebellion, reform, and revolution: China, Korea and Vietnam in the modern world / Jean Chesneaux -- Chronology.

***Graphic resource: Chinese calligraphy, bronzes, rubbings, scientific instruments, Chinese mathematics, astronomy, Christian century in Japan, Jesuits, Matteo Ricci, Zheng He, credential tablets, maps, history of writing, popular religion, gods, door-gods, Chong Kui, Guan Yu, and many other details. An overlooked item, with many interesting graphics, including a page from the Ricci-Ruggieri Portuguese-Chinese dictionary.

Memorabilia of J.S. (John Silas) Rex Cole, 1892-1969.
Gift of Cole's granddaughter Tina Kreitz (Nov. 14, 1997).

"J.S. Rex Cole was born to John Clark Cole and Emma K. Anderson Cole. His siblings were Georgia W. Cole Halladay (1881-1969), Leslie A. Cole (1883-1951), and Jessie Belle Cole Dutton (1885-1968). He graduated from the Univ. of Chicago in 1916, served in the US Army 1918-1919 (World War I), married his high school sweetheart, Martha Patterson, on Sept. 21, 1919. In 1920 he worked for the International Trade Developer as Manager for Japan, working and living in Kobe, Japan. His first child, Wayne Stanley Cole, was born in Kobe, Japan in 1921. His daughter Alice Annette (Ann) Cole was born in 1924 in California.

Rex Cole was a world traveler, but settled in Los Angeles County, California, where he was an insurance agent, then financial manager and agent for many Hollywood stars of the time. He became famous in his day and was a friend of many famous people including George Putnam (husband of Amelia Earhart)."

Source: Find a grave.

GLASS PLATE POSITIVE "MAGIC LANTERN" SLIDES OF JAPAN, CA. 1919. (2 Boxes)
Includes some views of China and Korea.

Two heavy wooden boxes contain hand-colored glass magic lantern slides of scenes from early 20th century Japan, China, and Korea. Some slides were commercially made and purchashed by tourists and visitors (and labelled) whiole others were made from random photographs. A note from the donors family indicates that Rex Cole's business area included Japan, Manchuria (Northeastern China), Taiwan, and Korea. While he arrived in 1920, there is indication that the slides were made in around 1919.