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Inter-Asia Research Networkssuggesting the popularity of such images to the expatriate community. [Images 3, 4]E. Morrison’s first house, located in the Legation Quarter, was destroyed during the Boxer Rebellion. In 1902 he moved to the Chinese quarter to a house in Wangfujing Street, part of the grand residence of Prince Pu Lun 貝子溥伦. In order to accommodate his extensive collection of books in Western languages concerning China and East Asia, the southern wing of the residential compound was converted into a library. Owing to Morrison’s reputation, Wangfujing Street came to be known among expatriates as ‘Morrison Street.’ The house was described in an article in the North China Daily:Walk past outside the Legation quarter in Peking, and you come to a typical Chinese house, its outer lodge facing the street, a big courtyard within, a house on one side, a long low building on the other... The long building is his library, containing probably the finest collection of books on the Far East in existence today. It is managed on a plan which reveals the man. Everything is systematised and indexed. The least fact can be ascertained at once. ... Here he works; here he maintains constant correspondence with men of all nationalities throughout the Middle Kingdom. System, accuracy, constant intercourse with all classes, and a tremendous correspondence have been the foundations on which he has built up his knowledge. [Pearl 1967: 209]The library comprised some 24,000 volumes in Western languages about China and her neighbours, including books maps, engravings, photographs, pamphlets and periodicals that Morrison had collected in the course of his working life. When Morrison decided to sell his massive library, Yamamoto was commissioned to record the building and its contents. The series of documentary photographs make clear the extent of the library and the care with which it was managed. [Image 5] An inscribed photograph of George E. Morrison flanked by Odagiri Masunosuke (seated left) and Ishida Mikinosuke (seated right) commemorates the sale of the collection in 1917 to Iwasaki Hisaya. [Image 6]At the time of the sale of his collection to what would become the Toyo Bunko, Morrison did not know that he only had three years to live. Five years earlier he had married Jennie Wark Robin, his young New Zealand-born secretary. A photograph taken by the S. Yamamoto studio records a proud father with his three sons who were all born in Peking: Ian in 1913, Alastair in 1915 and Colin two years later. [Image 7] The boys were extremely young when their father died. Alastair, the middle child, was only five years old. Tragically, their mother died three years later, in 1923. The boys were brought up by their nanny and an elderly maiden aunt and educated in England. Each of them would grow up to become remarkable travellers whose lives, like their father’s, were entwined with the fate of China and her neighbours.Ian, the eldest child, started his career in East Asia and taught English at Hokkaido University from 1935–1937 [Morrison I. 1938]. Later, he followed in the footsteps of his father and became a committed and fearless journalist, and war correspondent for The Times. He travelled extensively in the course of his work and became proficient in Chinese and Japanese. After serving in Malaya, Java, New Guinea and the Pacific, he was tragically killed during the Korean War. In an obituary, written by Colin MacDonald, a friend and former Times correspondent in China, Ian Morrison is described as ‘[g]ifted with a sensitive mind, restless energy and an almost prolific pen’ [McDonald 1950].Ian and Morrison’s youngest son Colin married sisters, Maria and Steffi Neubauer, daughters of a ‘Shanghai industrialist from Vienna.’ For a time Colin Morrison worked for the Hong Kong government. 021

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