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BITS OF WRITING

SECONDARY SOURCES

Stevan Harrell (ed.) Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers, University of Washington Press, Seattle.

James Hevia, Cherishing men from afar : Qing guest ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 Durham : Duke University

Press, 1995.

G. William Skinner, The City in late imperial China / edited by G. William Skinner ; contributors, Hugh D. R. Baker ... [et al.]. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1977. HT147.C48 C56

Kristin Stapleton, Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000

1992 "Han Images of China's Minority Nationalities in Historical Perspective"; University of Pittsburgh, Anthropology Dept. Seminar, Fall 1992

RANDOM STUFF

Description of Graham from http://www.geocities.com/robertalfredmurry/chingreal.html

David Crockett Graham (1884-1961) was born in Arkansas USA gaining a BA degree in 1908 and, after studying Theology in New York, was awarded a BD in 1916. In 1928, he published his PhD thesis 'Religion in Szechuan Province, China' after many years of fieldwork within China itself. He also studied archaeology, ethnology and anthropology at Chicago and Harvard Universities. Graham was ordained into the Baptist Ministry in 1911 and later that year went to China with the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. He stayed briefly in Shanghai before travelling to the city of Suifu (now Ipin) in Szechuan Province. This was to be his post for over twenty years. In the years between 1919 and 1939 - during his summer vacations and free time from missionary work - he made various expeditions in the Szechuan Province, collecting natural history specimens, anthropological relics and recording the culture, religions, language and song of the aboriginal peoples of these regions. In 1932, he was transferred to Chengtu, the capital of Szechuan Province, where he was stationed until his retirement in 1948. His written works on the songs, stories and folk religions of the Ch'uan Miao and the Ch'iangs were published by the Smithsonian Institute and his seminal paper "Folk Religion in South-West China" was published in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection vol 142 no. 2 (November 1961).

DC Graham took many photographs during his travels in China. However, as we can see from this short extract from his biography, the photograph of the 'Buddhist Abbot' was not taken in c1912, as Terry Dukes asserts. The Smithsonian records date the photograph at 1930 - with the likelihood that it was taken during the summer of that year. However, Graham's own notes suggest that he may have taken them in 1928 in his survey of the temples of Suifu conducted in that year. Whichever, either way, they were definitely not taken in 1912!

The Smithsonian holds over 600 photographs taken by DC Graham of many different aspects of Chinese cultural life at that time. Graham was, in fact, one of the last to describe and record the religious and cultural life of the indigenous Chinese peoples before they were swept away forever by the cultural, technological and political changes of the twentieth century. His insight into the religious practices within China at that time is unique.

"Beginning about 1930 it became increasingly evident to observers that the great changes taking place in China were having very important effects on the religious life of West China, especially evident in the use of temples and the worship in them. In 1928 two Chinese teachers assisted me in making a survey of the temples in I-pin or Suifu, the results of which were published in the Chinese Recorder. At this time, few changes were evident in the temples. From 1941-4, with the help of three university students, I made a careful survey of the temples of Chengtu, the capital of the province. The results were striking. In 42% of those that could be found, there was no worship at all and in 44% more, very little worship. Only 5% of the temples were used for worship only, and nearly all of these were small. It was evident that great and significant changes were taking place in the religions of West China"

"Folk Religion in South-West China" p.iv, 1961

From Smithsonian at http://ricci.rt.usfca.edu/Archives/repository.html?REPOSITORY=Archives(4,1AD5)

David Crockett Graham (1884-1961) was an American Baptist missionary and educator, and a field collector for the United States National Museum of the Smithsonian. He served in Shanghai in 1911, and then in Suifu (now Yibin), in Szechuan, for the next 20 years. After that he taught at West China Union University in Chengtu until his retirement in 1948. While on leave at various times, Graham returned to the United States for graduate study in religion, anthropology, and archaeology. From 1919 to 1939, Graham made 14 long summer expeditions and several short trips for the Smithsonian, collecting natural history artifacts and doing anthropological studies in Szechuan, Tibet, and Yunnan. See also the Human Studies Film Archives and the National Anthropological Archives below; and Whitman College Archives, Penrose Memorial Library, 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, WA, 99362.

A lady whose father was DCG, from the same city but in the wrong state:

I am interested in the family of Sarah Elizabeth OGLE, the daughter of Harkless OGLE. She married John Levi Graham and later moved with her daughter and family to Green Forest, AR, where my father, David Crockett Graham, was born. My father's parents were Elizabeth Belinda Atchley and William Edward Graham. Thank you for your help. Jean Graham Brown, 4295 S. Fox St. Englewood, CO 80110-4566 email: [email protected]

From National Anthropological Archives and Human Film Studies Archive

AS-83.13.1: [Ch'uan Miao Hill People of Western China, c. 1936]
c. 1936; 450 ft (14 min) silent b&w; video
Footage shot in southwestern China while Graham was curator of
the West China Union Museum of Archeology, Art, and Ethnology at
Chengtu. Film documents various customs of the Ch'uan Miao hill
people (more commonly known as the Ch'uang Meo) in the villages
of Chou Chia Keo and Wang Wu Chai near the borders of Szechwan,
Kweichow, and Yunnan provinces. Documentation includes: children
and adults in a Miao yard; a do nun (shaman) conducting a
ceremony to exercise demons; a mo (priest) conducting part of a
funeral ceremony accompanied by an assistant playing a liu shen
(six-tubed wind instrument); a trek to a Miao village led by
Graham and two legions of school children; Graham's medical
associates, W.R. Morse and Gordon Agnew, taking anthropometric
measurements and making dental observations of villagers; group
shots of Miao women and girls; a village do nun using divining
sticks and performing an exorcism; and a funeral ceremony for one
of the village women which involves sacrifice of a water buffalo
and procession of the coffin. Footage forms part of the U.S.
National Museum Division of Ethnology, Manuscript and Pamphlet
File, National Anthropological Archives.
Creator: David C. Graham, missionary

Creator/Author	Graham, David Crockett
Title	Explanation of the moving picture film showing the Ch'uan Miao and some of their customs. the picture taken by D. C. Graham probably in 1936 1936?
Forms Part of:	Manuscript and pamphlet file 8th century to 20th century 1870s-1950s
Physical Description:	2 pages
Medium	Typed document signed
Summary	The notes are for a reel of film that has been transferred to the Smithsonian Institution Human Studies Film Archives.
Cite As	Box 11, folder 141, China, Manuscript and pamphlet file, Records of the Division of Ethnology, Records of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives
Culture	Miao
Repository Loc.	National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland

Charles McKhann of Whitman College:

http://www.whitman.edu/anthropology/charles_f.htm