Wilma Cannon Fairbank Papers, 1920-1991, undated

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Wilma Cannon Fairbank Papers, 1920-1991, undated

1920-1991, undated

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The Wilma Cannon Fairbank Papers contain original correspondence with Liang Sicheng (also spelled Ssu-ch’eng) and Lin Whei-yin from the 1930s and 1940s as well as articles, interview notes, and publications by and about Liang and Lin. This material was used in preparation for writing Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China’s Architectural Past and for editing A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture. Fairbank organized her material in notebooks using tabs and post-it notes. The original order has been preserved as much as possible.

3 linear feet (6 boxes)

eng, Latn

Peabody Essex Museum

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Liang, Sicheng, 1901-1972

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Liang Sicheng was a Chinese architect and architectural historian, known as the father of modern Chinese architecture. Liang authored the first modern history on Chinese architecture, and he was the founder of the Architecture Department of Northeastern University in 1928 and Tsinghua University in 1946. He was the Chinese representative of the Design Board which designed the United Nations headquarters in New York City. He, along with wife Lin Huiyin, Mo Zongjiang, and Ji Yutang, discovered and...

Fairbank, John, 1907-1991.

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Fairbank, Wilma.

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