Charles Nelson Spinks

Charles Nelson Spinks (1906-1980) was an American scholar and collector of Japanese art and books, acquired during residence in Japan first as an English professor (beginning 1936, the same year he had earned his PhD from Stanford University) and editor of Japan News-week (1938-1941). He served in US Naval Intelligence 1942-46 and later at American embassies in Bangkok (1952–56), Jakarta, and Canberra (from 1957). He later donated the bulk of his collections to American University though some items are also held in the Freer Gallery.[1][2][3][4] He also published on Japanese culture and history as well as Thai ceramics and Khmer archaeology.[5][6][7] He delivered the 1959 Morrison Lecture on Preah Vihear Temple.[8][9]

References
  1. "Fragment of neck and mouth of brown-glazed jar". Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
  2. "Currently on Display – Japanese Illustrated Books from the Charles Nelson Spinks Collection | AU Library Archives / Special Collections: New and Noteworthy".
  3. "Charles Nelson Spinks Collection". American University.
  4. Hellegers, Dale M. (September 14, 2001). We, the Japanese People: World War II and the Origins of the Japanese Constitution. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804780322 – via Google Books.
  5. Spinks, Charles Nelson (September 14, 1978). "The ceramic wares of Siam". Siam Society – via National Library of Australia (new catalog).
  6. Spinks, Charles Nelson (September 14, 1939). "Behind Japan's anglophobia: an observation by an American in Japan". Association of Far Eastern Affairs – via National Library of Australia (new catalog).
  7. https://thesiamsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/1956/03/JSS_044_2b_Spinks_SiamAndPotteryTradeOfAsia.pdf
  8. Spinks, Charles Nelson (September 14, 1959). "The Khmer temple of Prah Vihar". Australian National University – via National Library of Australia (new catalog).
  9. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/145830/2/Morrison%20Oration%2021.pdf
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