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Chinese Nationality Room
October 6, 1939
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Title
Chinese Nationality Room
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
October 6, 1939
Identifier
CHCR01.UA
Description
The design of the Chinese Room was influenced by an 18th century reception hall in Peiping’s Forbidden City. The mural on the wall is a picture of the great Chinese thinker, Confucius. The table is designed to reflect his belief of equality between teachers and students around a circular table. The Chinese Room was dedicated October 6, 1939. This room, along with twenty-five other Nationality Rooms all with different architectural styles, was conceived in the 1920s by sociologist Ruth Crawford Mitchell as a means of linking the University of Pittsburgh with the immigrant culture of the steel working families.
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
Subject
Rooms
Classrooms
Cathedral of Learning (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Chinese Room
Geographic Subjects
Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs, 1884-present
Collection
Pitt Photographs
University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs
Pitt Nationality Rooms
Pitt Campus Life
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
Rights Information
Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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