[KS] Percival Lowell

[Wayne Patterson]

Keila's photograph of Lowell sitting under a tree with a group of Koreans
seems to be incorrectly placed in China.  Jenchuan is the Chinese
pronunciation of the characters for Inch'on, and in fact such variant
pronunciations were fairly common in the 1880s.  For example, Wonsan has
been variously written/pronounced as Yuensan (Chinese pronunciation for the
first character and Korean pronunciation for the second character) and
Gensan (Japanese pronunciation).

Wayne Patterson

Dr. Wayne Patterson
Department of History
St. Norbert College
100 Grant Street
DePere, Wisconsin
54115-2099, USA
TEL: 920-403-3096
FAX: 920-403-4086
E-MAIL: wayne.patterson at snc.edu


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Keila Diehl <kdiehl at berkeley.edu> wrote:

>  While we're on the topic of Percival Lowell... here is a wonderful photo
> of him taken by Asa M. Mattice, an officer on the USS *Juniata*, which
> toured East Asia in 1883-1885:
> https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/photo-essay/499?page=5
>
> This image is part of a remarkable collection of glass negatives owned by
> U.S. photographer John Dowling, who curated this *Cross-Currents* photo
> essay about the voyage of the *Juniata.* Read Dowling's curator's
> statement here
> <https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-7/voyage-uss-juniata/curatorstatement>
> .
>
> --
> Keila Diehl, Ph.D.
> Managing Editor*Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review*
> Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
> 1995 University Avenue #510H
> Berkeley, CA 94720-2318
> tel. 510-643-3378
> fax 510-643-7062http://cross-currents.berkeley.eduhttps://www.facebook.com/crosscurrentsjournal
>
>
>
> On 4/10/15 3:20 PM, Hyung Pai wrote:
>
> Thank you all for a lively inter-exchange. It is gratifying to know that
> other scholars have insights and information on this era of the dawn of
> American Korean studies
> I sometimes feel I am the only crazy one here,  out in California.
> These anecdotes are still helpful to fill in the blanks. So, Lowell was
> exaggerating after all of his singular status which has already been
> pointed out earlier.
> There is in fact a candid photo of Lowell in which he photographed the
> English teacher at the foreign school ( he was the one with the Japanese
> wife and two Eurasian kids) and multi-ethnic servants household .
>
>
>  Hyung Il Pai
> Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
> HSSB Building, University of California, Santa Barbara
> CA 93106. U.S.A.
> Fax: 805-893-7671
> Email: hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu
> Dept Home-page profile:
> http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/home/faculty/hyung-il-pai/
>
>
>
>
>  On Apr 9, 2015, at 7:57 AM, Wayne Patterson <wayne.patterson at snc.edu>
> wrote:
>
>  Dear Koreanists --
>
> Since William Elliot Griffis' name has surfaced in this discussion, here's
> a piece of trivia that falls into the category of interesting but useless
> information:  There are two graduates of Central High School in
> Philadelphia, both of the Class of '64, who have written on Korean history
> - William Elliot Griffis and Wayne Patterson.  (Thought I'd put in a plug
> for my high school - WP)
>
>  Dr. Wayne Patterson
> Department of History
> St. Norbert College
> 100 Grant Street
> DePere, Wisconsin
> 54115-2099, USA
> TEL: 920-403-3096
> FAX: 920-403-4086
> E-MAIL: wayne.patterson at snc.edu
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Frank Hoffmann <
> hoffmann at koreanstudies.com> wrote:
>
>> Robert Provine wrote:
>>
>> > Griffis is an interesting candidate for being Haddo - looks at a
>> > glance as though he was in the USA at the same time as Sô Kwangbôm,
>> > whom he had met in 1883 in New York, and could have been in touch
>> > with him in the 1890s when Sô was in the USA.
>>
>>
>> Yes, Griffis had met with Sŏ and other delegates of the first Korean
>> mission to the U.S. on 27 November 1883 at the Victoria Hotel in New
>> York (see below source). Griffis has seemingly writen a lot of books
>> and articlen on Korea. One big book already came out in 1882 and was
>> based mostly on Japanese sources. I was not aware of these *many*
>> publications until now -- quite an amazing writer and hard-working
>> researcher.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> Mention of his meeting with the Korean delegation in New York:
>> William Elliot Griffis, _Corea, without and within: Chapters on Corean
>> History, Manners and Religion. With Hendrick Hamel's Narrative of
>> Captivity and Travels in Corea, Annotated_, Philadelphia: Presbyterian
>> Board of Publication, 1885, p. 216.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>> Frank Hoffmann
>> http://koreanstudies.com
>>
>
>
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