{"id":3688,"date":"2017-04-26T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2017-04-22T20:53:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T12:53:48","slug":"nytimes-on-the-elling-eide-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3688","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes on the Elling Eide Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The New York Times <\/em>has published “Amid the Spanish Moss of Florida, a Treasure Chest of Chinese Literature<\/a>,” by Ian Johnson, on translator and scholar Elling Eide and his eponymous Center in Sarasota. Johnson writes how Eide<\/span><\/p>\n

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decided to bring the world of Sinology to Sarasota. Already a voracious collector, he doubled down on his passion, buying entire collections of academic journals and books. His research specialty had been China\u2019s most famous poet, Li Po, who lived during the Tang dynasty of the seventh to 10th centuries, often called China\u2019s greatest. That dynasty became his focus. He amassed 75,000 volumes, including 50,000 in Chinese: one of the largest private Chinese-language libraries in the world, and larger than many well-known universities\u2019 Chinese collections.<\/p>\n

The project reflected what friends and relatives call Mr. Eide\u2019s sometimes-manic personality. A onetime fitness buff with a dark brown beard, he became a paunchy recluse. He wore old clothes, chain-smoked Winstons and drove a beat-up Volkswagen bus. He poured his efforts into acquisitions but often neglected the details of cataloging and housing the books.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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