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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/IBP0001759/00001
Notes
- Abstract:
- Note on the back of card: At Ch'ing Lung Ch'iao (Train from Kalgan, at Peking) ( ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, )
- Abstract:
- Qinglongqiao railway station (Chinese: 青龙桥站), also known as Ching-lung-chiao railway station, is a historic station of Jingbao Railway located in Beijing. It was built in 1908, and includes the famous zigzag railway designed by the Chinese railroad engineer Zhan Tianyou (Jeme Tien-Yow). For more information on the Peking - Kalgan Railway see https://railwaywondersoftheworld.com/peking_kalgan.html (last viewed 2020.07.27)
- Abstract:
- The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway or Jingzhang Railway (simplified Chinese: 京张铁路), also known as the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway, is China’s first railway that has been designed and built solely by Chinese, situated in the nation’s capital Beijing and Zhangjiakou City in Hebei Province. It was built in 1905–1909 under the proposal of Viceroy of Zhili Yuan Shikai (袁世凯) and Assistant Director-General of Railways Hu Yufen (胡燏棻), with Zhan Tianyou (詹天佑) or Jeme Tien Yow as engineer-in-chief. Seen in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing-Zhangjiakou_Railway (last viewed 2020.07.27)
- General Note:
- Source of Acquisition: Bequeathed to SOAS library on Ifor Ball Powell's death in December 1985 with the collection being received the following January.
- General Note:
- Biographical information: Ifor Ball Powell was born on 12 September 1902, at Llanfihangel Talyllyn, Brecon. He was a student at Aberystwyth in the early 1920s, where he came under the influence of C.K. Webster and Sidney Herbert in the then newly founded department of International Politics. A Rockefeller fellowship took him to the University of Michigan to study American history. While there he became interested in the Far East. Powell became particularly interested in the Philippines, when he arrived there as a Rockefeller scholar in 1926. He spent three years visiting islands in the central and southern Philippines, collecting a vast amount of information and material on the government, economy and history of the islands. He was particularly interested in the history of the British in the Philippines and collected material on British firms and society. After his return to Britain, and for the rest of his life, Ifor Powell continued his interest in and links with the Philippines, writing to many Filipino friends and colleagues and maintaining an extensive collection of press cuttings. -- During the 1930s, Ifor Powell taught history at Barry County Grammar School for Boys. In 1940 he took up wartime duties as a temporary civil servant in the Ministry of Labour. He also visited the United States as a representative of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. In 1945 he was appointed to the Department of History, University College, Cardiff, to teach modern European history. In this position he introduced courses on the expansion of Europe, Far Eastern and American history. From 1949 his teaching was entirely in these fields. Cardiff was thus among one of the first history departments in the UK to widen its syllabus to accommodate new areas of interest created by the Second World War. -- He married Anne Nora Lewis (d. 9 March 1983) on 18 August 1931. There were no children. Ifor Ball Powell died on 11 December 1985, at Barry, Glamorgan.
- General Note:
- Peking is present day Beijing
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
- Resource Identifier:
- PP MS 26/3/1/4 ( SOAS Manuscript Number )
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