Dear George,
You might want to look at 《釋氏稽古略》T49.2037.833a12-23. It is about a 布氏侍 = 布毛侍 who wants to become a Buddhist monastic. The passage ends:《釋氏稽古略》卷3：「建伽藍於喜鵲寺之東葛嶺之西塢曰招賢(傳燈錄)。」(CBETA, T49, no. 2037, p. 833, a22-23)
best,
Dan
Dear George,
This place name (葛嶺) comes up in an eighteenth-century text (戸隠山代權現縁起, 1736?) I've been working on as shorthand for Katsuragi-san 葛城山, which you'll recognize as En no Gyōja's home turf.
Incidentally, there are Daoist references in this text that construct associations between En and Daoism (particularly 天師道). I'd be curious to hear from others if 葛嶺 doubles as a reference to a Chinese site as well.
Best wishes,
Hello George,
The landmark is Daoist related. In "Ge Ling," there is a Daoist monastery called 抱樸道院, named after Ge Hong's "Bao Pu Zi" 抱樸子.
You may also check "西湖夢尋·葛嶺": “ 葛嶺者，葛仙翁稚川修仙地也。仙翁名洪，號抱樸子，句容人也。從祖葛玄，學道得仙術，傳其弟子鄭隱。洪從隱學，盡得其秘……” (https://www.google.com/books/edition/西湖夢尋/QWMJP8MLW80C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%E8%A5%BF%E6%B9%96%E6%A2%A6%E5%AF%BB&printsec=frontcover).
I am not expertise in Daoism, but shall you find much more Daoist references
for "抱樸" or "抱樸子."
Hope it helps,
AL
Dear List Members,
Dear Mr. Reavis:
Most 495-261 files I've seen have a mixture of material in English and Russian. Often the English consists of biographical forms filled out by the subject of the file when he or she attended a Comintern school or conference. But it has been more than a decade since I was at RGASPI and I'm no longer in touch with Russian researchers who assist RGASPI research. Nor do I know what is the current RGASPI policy on access to 495-261 files. American researchers who have been to Moscow more recently would be a better source.
John Earl Haynes
Mr. Haynes:
I am used to working with the CPUSA files in the Comintern Records. But your report--which gives me great hope!--seems to indicate that the files mentioning a Dzhonson are in Russian, which I can't read. I am hoping that in this web-connected world, I could hire someone who could follow him in that language. Do you or does anyone have a suggestion about how I could hire a researcher who is competent in that language?
There is a Tom Johnson (Dzhonson, Tom) file in the Comintern’s collection of USA personal files at the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI): fond 495, opis 261, delo 5200. Probably it is your Tom Johnson but I have no idea what the file contains or from what period.
John Earl Haynes
I have no direct information. However, it is interesting to note, as per his papers at Tamiment, that James Allen, who was also working in the deep South, left, after about a year or two, the reason being as I recall, the stress involved in the work
Hi Sebastián,
Thank you so much for your answer. To be a bit more specific, I am especially looking for Bolivian newspapers, that I can access digitally, with a focus on coverage of the following years / topics:
- the years 1975-1978 and the legislative of Mario Mercado Vaca Guzmán as Mayor of La Paz,
- 1985-1991 (Ronald MacLean Abaroa as Mayor of La Paz)
- the years 1999 (with special focus on the municipal elections in 2010) until 2014 (from there on it's quite easy to access articles online)
- local politics, urban development / transportation
I have seen a reference (e..g Eric Foner's textbook, Give me Liberty) to the turn-of-the-20th century (1890-1920) as a time of female activism that "would later be called the 'women's era.'" (see ch. 17). In the accompanying 4 paragraphs, he discusses the activism and groups of white women and black women. He does describe the racism of white-dominated groups, although most of his discussion of black women's club work falls earlier in the chapter in a section called, "The Segregated South.'
I have a number of questions
