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- children grew in appreciation of things Chinese, they too received gifts of Chinese artifacts. After her death in 1962 this collection was divided among their three children: Mrs. Marion Menzies Hummel, Mrs. Frances Menzies Newcombe and Arthur Menzies. Some of the oldest artifacts were included in the exhibition of The Wonders of Earliest China shown in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria from August 26-November 6, 1988. Later pieces are included in the current exhibition. This exhibition shows the eclectic taste in Chinese art developed by Dr. Menzies as he learned to value highly the art forms which already were so advanced in the Shang Dynasty 3,000 years ago, and which have so greatly influenced the subse�quent evolution of art in China.
Arthur Menzies Ottawa, January 1989
Bibliography
of works by Rev. Dr. James M. Menzies
IN ENGLISH:
Oracle Records from the Waste of Yin, Shanghai, 1917
The Culture of the Shang Dynasty, Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1931
Early Chinese Ideas of God, The Honan Quarterly, Vol. IV, No. 2,
April, 1935, pp. 2-4.
The Culture of the Shang Dynasty, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1931
God in Ancient China, Cheelo University, Tsinan, 1936 �The Appreciation of Chinese Bronzes�, An Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ritual Bronzes, C.T. Loo and Co. New York, 1940
The Shang Ko, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1965
IN CHINESE:
The Culture of the Shang Dynasty, Ch�i-ta chi-k�an (Tsinan), No. 1, 1932, pp. 1-7.
A Comparative Study of the New and Old Editions ofLo Chen-yu�s Earlier Compila�tion of Written Inscriptions from the Waste of Yin, and the Resultant Newly Dis�covered Historical Materials, ibid., No. 2, 1933, pp. 119-132.
F. A. Nixon�s Collection of Nestorial Crosses, ibid., Nos. 3 and 5, 1934, pp. 1-185.
Chinese Oracle Bone Characters�the PaulD. Bergen Collection, ibid., No. 6,1935, pp. 1-28; No. 17, 1936, pp. 17-74. (This also appears as a separate pamphlet, published in Tsinan, 1936, with some substantial changes.)
(Several other manuscripts dealing with the Shang, complete and incomplete,
remain unpublished.)
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