28 Jun 2006

Herbert Offen [Chinese Art] Research Collection
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, US
Supplied note: "The Herbert Offen Research Collection focuses on Chinese furniture, architecture and gardens, with supporting sections that explore Japanese, Korean and South East Asian studies of like topics. In the spring of 2004, the Offen family made an initial gift of 490 books as well as generous funds to continue purchasing new, recently published and antiquarian books on these subjects. In two years the collection has grown to over 3,000 items and is now one of the finest research collections for scholars and enthusiasts in these fields. The donations have been made in memory of Herbert Offen, an inspiring and passionate devotee of Chinese culture, who resided in China for several years. Included in the Herbert Offen Research Collection are the 1925 Ernst Boerschmann two-volume set Chinesische Architektur, Maurice Dupont's 1920's studies of Chinese furniture, Chuta Ito's beautifully photographed 1941 series on Chinese architecture Shina Kenchiku Soshoku, Albert Nachbaur's Les images populaires chinoises, 1926, Okuyama Tsunegoro's 'Pekin kojo kenchiku soshoku : fuzu hachijoyo' Decoration of palace buildings of Peking. Meiji 39 [1906] George Louis Le Rouge's Jardins Anglois-Chinois et Jardins de la Mode 1776-1778, Emile Gsell's Monuments Khmers, 1865, and the Wilma Fairbank papers. A bibliography of the titles is included http://pem.org/museum/Herbertoffen.pdf (PDF format, 2.29 MB) - bmcl."
[The Peabody Essex Museum is also a home to the 'Frederick Townsend Ward China Collection' of "[a]pproximately 10,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, and periodicals, and many rare maps, prints, and photographs document the history and culture of China and the interactions of [Imperial] China with the West up to the early 20th century establishment of the Chinese Republic. The publications document diplomatic and commercial relations between China and the Westerns nations, and missionary activities in China from the 16th to the 20th centuries." - ed.]
URL http://pem.org/museum/lib_offen.php
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://pem.org/museum/lib_offen.php
Link reported by: Bruce MacLaren (Bruce_MacLaren-at--pem.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Museum
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30