{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/x05x63cv4m/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["The Möllendorff Cylinders: Primeval Recordings of Chinese Poetry in Performance"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Patrick Feaster (Presenter)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2024-05-17 (Created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio","Slides"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003ePaul Georg von Möllendorff (1847-1901) was a diplomat of Prussian origin who spent most of his career in China and Korea. While serving as Commissioner of Customs at Ningbo, he undertook an ambitious project to document Chinese languages for the benefit of the Universal Exposition of 1900 in Paris. As he explains in his book Classification des dialectes Chinois, he asked speakers of sixteen Chinese “dialects” to recite the same poem—“Returning Home” by Tao Yuanming—into the graphophone and then transcribed the results phonetically. Today, the resulting cylinders are the earliest known surviving sound recordings made in China for which a year of origin can be documented (1899). These include not only the set originally sent to Paris Exposition (which is partially preserved among the holdings of the Musée de l’Homme), but also other sets that remained in private hands: one intact boxful that found its way into the Charley Hummel collection, and another boxful that was split up and dispersed among different private collectors. Möllendorff’s own interest lay specifically in documenting and classifying languages, but because he chose poetry as his subject matter, his recordings also provide uniquely early documentation of traditions of Chinese literary recitation, sometimes referred to as “chanting.”\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003ePaul Georg von M\u0026ouml;llendorff (1847-1901) was a diplomat of Prussian origin who spent most of his career in China and Korea. While serving as Commissioner of Customs at Ningbo, he undertook an ambitious project to document Chinese languages for the benefit of the Universal Exposition of 1900 in Paris. As he explains in his book Classification des dialectes Chinois, he asked speakers of sixteen Chinese \u0026ldquo;dialects\u0026rdquo; to recite the same poem\u0026mdash;\u0026ldquo;Returning Home\u0026rdquo; by Tao Yuanming\u0026mdash;into the graphophone and then transcribed the results phonetically. Today, the resulting cylinders are the earliest known surviving sound recordings made in China for which a year of origin can be documented (1899). These include not only the set originally sent to Paris Exposition (which is partially preserved among the holdings of the Mus\u0026eacute;e de l\u0026rsquo;Homme), but also other sets that remained in private hands: one intact boxful that found its way into the Charley Hummel collection, and another boxful that was split up and dispersed among different private collectors. M\u0026ouml;llendorff\u0026rsquo;s own interest lay specifically in documenting and classifying languages, but because he chose poetry as his subject matter, his recordings also provide uniquely early documentation of traditions of Chinese literary recitation, sometimes referred to as \u0026ldquo;chanting.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/253/125/small/ARSC_conf_2024_Feaster_thmb.jpg?1727388192","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2875/collection_resources/136529/file/253125","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - ARSC_conf_2024_Feaster_audio.mp3"]},"duration":2514.216,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/253/125/small/ARSC_conf_2024_Feaster_thmb.jpg?1727388192","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2875/collection_resources/136529/file/253125/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2875/collection_resources/136529/file/253125/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/253/125/original/ARSC_conf_2024_Feaster_audio.mp3?1727387968","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":2514.216,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2875/collection_resources/136529/file/253125","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}