Guide to the Shau Wing Chan Papers
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
Call Number: SC0421
Creator:
Chan, Shau Wing, 1907-1986.
Creator:
Chan, Shau Wing
Title: Shau Wing Chan papers
Dates: 1911-1994
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear feet
Summary: Notebooks, exams, reading notes, and a draft of his thesis from
his graduate studies, 1930-1933; professional and personal correspondence, 1938-1949,
including letters pertaining to his immigration status; correspondence, memoranda, and
reports pertaining to Stanford administrative and departmental matters, 1935-1982; and
family papers, 1911-1994. Included in the family papers are extensive correspondence
between Chan and his wife Anna during his trips away from home, 1938-1960; letters (many
in Chinese) from his brothers Shou Yi Ch'en, 1937-1977, Stanley Hong (Shou Hong) Chan,
1938-1975, and Shau Wa (Wally) Chan, 1941-1950; correspondence of Chan's son Loren B.
Chan with his parents and uncles, 1964-1989; personal documents of Anna Mae Chan,
1911-1994; Shau Wing Chan's passports and travel papers, 1937-1982; and some ephemera
from China, 1925-1926.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift of Loren B. Chan, 1987, 1988, and 1995.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
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Cite As
Shau Wing Chan Papers (SC0421). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Chan received his M.A. (1932) and his Ph.D. (1937) in English from Stanford University.
He joined the Stanford faculty in 1938 and retired in 1972. He was instrumental in
founding what is now the Department of Asian Languages, serving as its executive head
from 1958-1962.
Description of the Collection
Notebooks, exams, reading notes, and a draft of his thesis from his graduate studies,
1930-1933; professional and personal correspondence, 1938-1949, including letters
pertaining to his immigration status; correspondence, memoranda, and reports pertaining
to Stanford administrative and departmental matters, 1935-1982; and family papers,
1911-1994. Included in the family papers are extensive correspondence between Chan and
his wife Anna during his trips away from home, 1938-1960; letters (many in Chinese) from
his brothers Shou Yi Ch'en, 1937-1977, Stanley Hong (Shou Hong) Chan, 1938-1975, and
Shau Wa (Wally) Chan, 1941-1950; correspondence of Chan's son Loren B. Chan with his
parents and uncles, 1964-1989; personal documents of Anna Mae Chan, 1911-1994; Shau Wing
Chan's passports and travel papers, 1937-1982; and some ephemera from China,
1925-1926.
Access Terms
Ch'en, Shou-yi, 1899-
Chan, Anna Mae.
Chan, Loren Briggs, 1943-
Chan, Shau Hong.
Chan, Shau Wa.
Chan, Shau Wing, 1907-1986.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Stanford University--Students.
Stanford University. Dept. of Asian Languages
--Faculty.
Stanford University. Dept. of English.
Chinese Americans --California.
General note
See AM 95-032 for Stanford student memorabilia owned by Chan.
Collection Contents
Box 2, Folder 1
Romance Languages A201, 1933
Box 2, Folder 2
Romance Languages A161, 1933
Box 2, Folder 7
Examination booklets, 1933 and undated
Box 3, Folder 1
Correspondence, outgoing, 1940-1949
Box 3, Folder 2
Correspondence, outgoing: letters of recommendation
Box 3, Folder 3
Correspondence, incoming: A-F
Box 3, Folder 4
Correspondence, incoming: G-O
Box 3, Folder 5
Correspondence, incoming: P-Z and unidentified
Box 3, Folder 6
Correspondence concerning Chan’s immigration status
1938-1940
Box 3, Folder 8
Stanford University, administrative correspondence and notices,
1940-1964
Box 3, Folder 9
Stanford University memoranda, reports, etc., 1935-1949
Box 3, Folder 10
Stanford University, School of Humanities, organization of
Box 3, Folder 11
Seminars on morale and peace
Box 3, Folder 12
Stanford Alumni Association papers, 1942-1944
Box 4
Slides: ca.1948: Hong Kong
Box 4
Slides: ca.1948: Ladies Style
Box 4
Slides: ca.1948: Hong Kong and Kowloon by Night
Box 4
Slides: ca.1948: Tiger Balm Garden
Box 4
Slides: ca.1948: (untitled)
Box OS
OS box storage: Photograph of Chan in dinner party honoring Superior
Judge Thomas A. Foley Feb. 28, 1939
Papers Accession ARCH-1995-257
Box 1, Folder 1
Shau Wing Chan: eulogy, memorial resolution, death certificate,
1986
Box 1, Folder 2
Immigration papers, letters, and passports
Box 1, Folder 3
Calligraphy in the hand of Shau Wing Chan's father (Chi-tong Chan,
1863-1918)
Box 1, Folder 4
Ephemera from China: Sun Yat-sen postcard, 1925; grade book of John C.
Griggs, teacher at Lingnam University, Canton, 1925-26; and booklet on a
missionary school in Ningpo, Chekian province
Box 1, Folder 5
Amma Mae Chan: eulogies, birth and death certificates, passport, and
school grade cards
Box 1, Folder 9
Ray Lyman Wilbur, letters to Chan re Stanford matters, 1933-1943; and
notice of Wilbur's death, 1949
Box 1, Folder 10
Stanford, 1930-1936: expense record, student body cards, two
letters
Box 1, Folder 11
Stanford, 1938-1982: administrative correspondence and ID card; also
includes letters from other colleges and travel papers
Box 1, Folder 12
Hip Wo School: two lettes re appointment, 1939 and 1941
Box 1, Folder 13
National Shantung (Shandong) University, letters, 1937 (some in
Chinese)
Box 1, Folder 14
Utah State University, 1941, 1964: correspondence with King Hendricks
and others re Chan's lectures there
Box 1, Folder 15
Correspondence: Loren B. chan to his parents, 1966-1972, re his
graduate work at UCLA and subsequent teaching jobs
Box 1, Folder 16
Correspondence: Loren B. Chan with his parents, 1964
Box 1, Folder 17
Correspondence: Anna and Wing Chan, 1960
Box 1, Folder 18
Correspondence: Chan family, summer 1951 (Chan was teaching summer
school at Pomona College)
Box 1, Folder 19
Correspondence: Anna and Wing Chan, 1948, during Chan's trip to
China
Box 1, Folder 20
Correspondence: family letters to Chan while he was in China,
1948
Box 2, Folder 1
Correspondence: Anna and Wing Chan, 1946
Box 2, Folder 2
Correspondence: Anna and Wing chan, 1944 (Chan was teqaching summer
school at the University of Utah)
Box 2, Folder 3
Correspondence: Anna and Wing Chan, 1936-1942
Box 2, Folder 4
Correspondence: Helen Lei Ch'en (wife of Shou Yi Ch'en) to Anna Chan,
1937
Box 2, Folder 5
Correspondence: unsent Chinese letter by Wing Chan, ca.
1930-1933
Box 2, Folder 6
Correspondence: letters from Annie Tak-yi Chan Ng (Wing's eldest
siste), in chinese, 1938-1940; unsent letter in Chinese by Wing, ca. 1941;
letters from Annie's children Poon Keung Ng, 1955, and Ng To Yeuk,
1962
Box 2, Folder 7
Correspondence: Shou Yi Ch'en to Wing Chan, in Chinese,
1937-1945
Box 2, Folder 8
Correspondence: Shou Yi Ch'en to Wing and Anna Chan, in English,
1940-1977; obituaries for Shou Yi Ch'en, 1978
Box 2, Folder 9
Correspondence: Stanley (Shau Hong) Chan to Wing Chan, mostly in
Chinese, 1938-1975
Box 2, Folder 10
Correspondence: Lily Luella Lum Chan (wife of Stanley) to Anna and Wing
chan, 1936-1940, in English
Box 2, Folder 11
Correspondence: Shau Wa (Wally) Chan to Anna and Wing Chan, 1941-1950,
in Chinese and English; leter from Maude Martha Don Chan, wife of Shau Wa,
1955; and eulogy for Shau Wa Chan, 1987
Box 2, Folder 12
Correspondence: Shou Yi Ch'en to Loren B. Chan, 1966-1975, mostly in
Chinese
Box 2, Folder 13
Correspondence: Shau Wing and Anna Chan to and from Loren B. Chan,
1967-1989, in English
Box 2, Folder 14
Shau Wing Chan's Chinese signet seal ("chop"); and his rubber signature
stamp used while chairperson of the Dept. of Asian Languages
