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6
John C. Ferguson, “Chinese Art,” The China Yearbook, ed., H.G.W. Woodhead
(Shanghai: North China Daily News & Herald, 1938), 407. See also Jeannette
Shambaugh Elliot, with David Shambaugh, The Odyssey of China’s Imperial Art
Treasures (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005), 83. For biographical
information on Ferguson’s role in China since the late Qing in the political arena,
journalistic circles, and art connoisseurship in Republican Beijing, see Warren Cohen,
East Asian Art and American Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 65-
67; and Thomas Lawton, A Time of Transition: Two Collectors of Chinese Art (Kansas
City: Spencer Museum of Art, 1991), 65-106.

7
See the Foreword and also Wen Fong’s chapter in Possessing the Past: Treasures from
the National Palace Museum, Taipei, eds., Wen C. Fong and James Watt (New York:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996), vii, 2. See also other articles in Possessing the Past:
Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei exhibition catalogue which describe
the 1935-1936 Exhibition in such similar and grandiose ways. Jason Steuber, “The
Exhibition of Chinese Art at the Burlington House, London, 1935-36,” The Burlington
Magazine 148:1241 (2006): 528-536; Jiang Jiehong ۴ືح, “Diyici yuanzheng 1935

nian Zhongguo yishu guoji zhanlanhui zai Lundun” ୋɓϣჃᗇ1935 ϋʕ਷ᖵஔ਷ყ
࢝ᚎึίࡐ౱ [The first International Exhibition of Chinese Art in London, 1935]
Zhanlan yu shoucang wenti ࢝ᚎ׵ϗᔛਪᕚ [Issues in Exhibition and Collecting] nv,ni
(nd): 346-365. I thank Professor Kuiyi Shen for providing me a copy of this article.

8
Recent archaeological digs in Hebei were also sent, as recorded in Fu Zhenlun ௩ࣈࡐ,
“Zhongguo yishu Lundun guoji zhanlan hui chenlie zhi Hebei guwu,” ʕ਷ᖵஔࡐ౱਷
ყ࢝ᚎึ௓ΐʘئ̏̚ي [Hebei artifacts exhibited at the London International
Exhibition of Chinese Art] Hebei bowuguan huakan ئ̏௹ي᎜೥̊139 (June, 1937): 6.

9 Xinwenbao April 15, 1935. See Chinese Organizing Committee, Catalogue of Exhibits
at The Preliminary Exhibition in Shanghai April 18-May 1, 1935 (Nanjing: Chinese
Organizing Committee, 1935). This is an English language catalogue.

10 See reportage in Xinwen bao and Shenbao, April 9, 1935-April 16, 1935.

11
See Xinwen bao, April 10, 1935.

12 See Shenbao, April 24-25, 1935; and Xinwenbao, April 13, 1935. Painters and
archaeologists who attended included: Zhang Daqian, Pan Tianshou, Lin Yutang, Xu
Beihong, Xie Gongzhan, and Wang Shengyuan.

13
Xue Quanceng ᑡლಀ, “Lundun Yizhanhui Zhongguo zhanpin guomu ji,” ࡐ౱ᖵ࢝
ึʕ਷࢝ۜཀͦা [Record of looking at the Chinese selected objects for the London
Exhibition] Zhongguo xinlun ʕ਷อሞ 2:6 (July, 1936): 116.