Interview with Lydia Messmer: oral history.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Cammann, Schuyler Van Rensselaer, 1912-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Pennsylvania. School of Arts and Sciences. Department of Oriental Studies.

University of Pennsylvania.

American Oriental Society.

Asia--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Asia.

University of Pennsylvania--Faculty.

University of Pennsylvania--History--20th century.

College teachers--China--Shanghai.

College teachers.

Physical Description:

2 videotapes (U-matic tapes): accompanying material in the manuscript section of the collection.

Contained In:

University of Pennsylvania. School of Arts and Sciences. Computing Facilities and Services. Multimedia Educational Technology Services. Records, 1969-1991

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania, c[1987].

Biography/History:

Schuyler Van Rensselaer Cammann obtained his A.B. from Yale in 1935, M.A. from Harvard in 1941 and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1949. He served as instructor in English and European History in Changsha, China, from 1935 to 1937, and had special assignments in China from 1944 to 1945. He joined the faculty of Chinese studies of the University of Pennsylvania in 1948 and taught in the department of Oriental Studies until 1982.

Summary:

The interviewee recalled his experiences in China and reviewed his teaching career at the University of Pennsylvania for over thirty years.

Notes:

Produced by the Multimedia Educational Technology Services, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1346383967