James Cahill dies at 87; scholar of Chinese art

http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-james-cahill-20140222,0,625432.story#ixzz2uSDSCivh

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7/16/07

Details: Created on Monday, 16 July 2007 08:00

Again, I must use this blog to apologize for faults in the website and announce the correction of them, thanks to my able research assistant Barry Magrill. First, an extraneous text had been inserted wrongly into the CYCTIE, the "Imperishable Ephemera" section, as Part 2. It has been removed, and the CYCTIE is complete in two parts. (The "Hamlet at Wittenberg" piece is at the end of Part 1.) Secondly, I gave out the wrong numbers for the CLP texts that correspond to the two attachments to my announcement: CLP 178 is the "Berkeley Talk," and CLP 176, now openable, is the "Visual, Verbal, and Global?" paper. Apologies to those who wasted time trying to open it over the past few days.

I have had many positive and interesting responses to my sendout, some from people I haven't heard from in years. Thanks to all who sent encouraging emails. The website will be further improved with corrections and additions; write me if there are problems.

7/3/07

Details: Created on Friday, 07 September 2007 23:56; Written by James Cahill

My first words on this "blog" will be an acknowledgment that the name is probably wrong—it appears that "blog" is more often understood as something like "chatroom," with anybody who wants to contributing, and that certainly wasn't what I had in mind—I don't want to take on the administering of any such grand collective forum. This is only to be a place where I can post information and ideas from time to time. As stated in the Welcome, you can email me and I will try to respond, especially if the response can be simple and quick.

7/9/07

Details: Created on Monday, 09 July 2007 08:00; Written by James Cahill

There are still a few minor glitches in the website that need to be corrected, but it is close enough to ready for me to announce it. A note on opening the "Writings" section: There is a "Directory" at left, with the categories in orange type below; clicking once on any of those should make a more detailed menu appear below it in small black type, and clicking on the items in those menus should make the texts appear. For some reason, clicking the "Responses and Reminiscences" one doesn't yet produce a menu, and the latter part of it is unavailable until that is fixed; it goes only to 26 now and should go to 36. For some reason, under WCP, WCP 5 and WCP 5 Illustrations are reversed. The "illustrations" are only notes for myself on where to find slides etc.; not much real information on where to find the pictures. That can come later. In the "Writings" category, there is a "Search" box at the top which should allow you to locate references to particular subjects.

Under CLP, the whole list appears first, with asterisks beside those items that are digitized and accessible on the website. Call down the menu by clicking on that item under the Directory, and then click any CLP by number. Items on the complete CLP list lacking asterisks can in principle be obtained, by anyone with a legitimate research purpose, by writing me and paying the cost of copying it from my hard copy and sending it to you; my research assistant is willing to do a limited amount of that work, with pay for his time of course included. I assume that requests of that kind will be few.

So, have fun. Jim

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