Item 110: Bookplate, St. John’s University Shanghai Low Library, 1913
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 110
Dates
- Created: 1913
Creator
- Fisher, William Edgar, 1872-1956 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Bookplate
Condition Note:
Good, no issues.
Measurements:
4 ⅝ in. x 3 ⅛ in.
Title:
St. John’s University Shanghai Low Library
Description:
A bookplate featuring a Chinese education center in Shanghai with Chinese characters written on the entrance. There is a person walking into the center and the sun is shining in the background. St. John’s University Shanghai was a Christian university started by American Missionaries William Jones Boone and Joseph Scherechewsky, bishop of Shanghai, in Shanghai, China in 1879. They did this by joining two Anglican schools in Shanghai. “It was one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China, often regarded as the Harvard of China.” It started out with only thirty-nine students and they mostly learned in Chinese. The school was able to make it through World War II, and the Chinese Civil War, but after the People’s Republic of China was started, the government shut the school down in 1952 because it had a law of making “specialist universities in the Soviet style of the time.” Because of this law, teachers, students, and library collections became a part of East China Normal University. Its medical school was made into the Second Shanghai Medical School, “which became the School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2005. The campus became the site of the East China University of Politics and Law.” When the revolt in China was done, the remaining staff from the first St. John’s University Medical School Association made the choice to be aware of the students who had to change schools and they graduated from Shanghai Second Medical College, but got their degrees from St. John’s University. “Their diplomas were signed by the president of St. Johns.” It was then relocated to Hong Kong where Chung Chi College, a faction of the Chinese University of Hong Kong was started. The old campus is now used by the East China University of Political Science and Law. “The architect for the college’s original quadrangle of buildings was Newark, New Jersey architect William Halsey Wood. Its first president was Yen Yun-ching.” She served for sixty years, from 1838-1898. When the school was first starting out, Lydia Mary Fry, “a missionary of the Protestant Episcopal China Mission (or the American Church Mission) participated in starting Duane Hall, “a secondary school which later became part of St. John’s College.” Bookplate creator William Edgar Fisher was born in Wellsville, N.Y. on October 24, 1872. He attended Phillips, Andover Academy, and Cornell University. He was a well known artist, advertiser, and bookplate designer and was a former president of the American Book Plate Society. He became an art editor of Judge magazine during the early 1920s. Additionally, Fisher was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of Colonial Wars. He was also a member of the Players of New York City. He died at the age of 84 in 1956. To see other bookplates created by William Edgar Fisher, please visit Yale University’s archive and finding aids here.
Locations:
Shanghai, China; Queens, New York
Creator
- Fisher, William Edgar, 1872-1956 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu