Register of the Nym Wales papers
Finding aid prepared by Harold P. Anderson; revised by Taylor Brady and Paige Minister
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Nym Wales papers
Date (inclusive): 1931-1998
Collection Number: 58002
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English, Chinese, and Arabic
Physical Description:
69 manuscript boxes, 7 oversize boxes, 11 oversize folders, 1 oversize envelope, 1 album box, 2 slide boxes, 2 videocassettes,
4 photographs
(31.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Personal and collected correspondence, speeches and writings, news dispatches, interviews, reports, memoranda, organizational
records, and photographs relating to the Chinese communists; the industrial cooperative movement, student movement, and labor
movement in China; the Sian incident, 1936; the Sino-Japanese Conflict; and Chinese art and literature. Digital copies of
select records also available at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Creator:
Wales, Nym, 1907-1997
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Access
Boxes 35-37, 41, 74-75, OCM12 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. There is digitized content from boxes 74-75
available in the reading room. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance
via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted
before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1958 with additional increments received from 1982 to 2011.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Nym Wales papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Alternate Forms Available
Biographical Note
*Nym Wales is the pseudonym of Helen Foster Snow, also known in various contexts as Peggy Snow, Hseuh Hai-lun, and Lo Fu.
1907 September 21 |
Born, Cedar City, Utah |
1925-1927 |
Student, University of Utah |
1931-1941 |
Lived in China and the Philippine Islands, held positions as a journalist, book reviewer, and editor |
1932 |
Married Edgar Snow (divorced, 1949) |
1934-1935 |
Student, Yenching University and Tsinghua University |
1937 |
Visited the headquarters of Chinese Communist leaders in Yenan for four months |
1937 |
Co-founder of
Democracy magazine
|
1938 |
Co-founder of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative movement in Shanghai |
1939 |
Author,
Inside Red China
|
1941-1951 |
Board of Directors, American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives |
1941 |
Co-author with Kim San,
Song of Arian: The Life Story of an Asian Revolutionary
|
1941 |
Author,
China Builds for Democracy: A Story of Cooperative Industry
|
1945 |
Author,
The Chinese Labor Movement
|
1952 |
Editor,
Red Dust: Autobiographies of Chinese Communists as Told to Nym Wales
|
1952 |
Author,
Fables and Parables for the Mid-Century
|
1958-1961 |
Author and compiler,
Historical Notes on China, 6 volumes designed to accompany the Nym Wales Collection at the Hoover Institution:
Notes on the Chinese Student Movement, 1935-1936;
Notes on the Sian Incident, 1936;
Notes on Korea and the Life of Kim San;
My Yenan Notebooks;
Notes on the Left-Wing Painters and Modern Art in China;
Notes on the Beginnings of the Industrial Cooperatives in China
|
1967 |
Author,
Women in Modern China
|
1972 |
Author,
The Chinese Communists (in part a reprint of
Red Dust)
|
1972-1973 |
Travelled in the Far East, including mainland China |
1984 |
Author,
My China Years: A Memoir
|
1997 January 11 |
Died, Guilford, Connecticut |
Scope and Content of Collection
Personal and collected correspondence, speeches and writings, news dispatches, interviews, reports, memoranda, organizational
records, and photographs relating to the Chinese communists; the industrial cooperative movement, student movement, and labor
movement in China; the Sian incident, 1936; the Sino-Japanese Conflict; and Chinese art and literature.
An increment added in 2011 includes Wales's unpublished manuscript, in which she gave penetrating insights into the occurrences
in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, Chinese-American relations, globalism, and a reflection on her eighty-second birthday
in 1989; as well as her correspondence with Communist Chinese provincial organizations and friends within and outside the
United States in the late 1980s and the early 1990s.
Separated Materials Note
Additional material constituting part of the Nym Wales Collection can be located by consulting the following Hoover Institution
Library card catalogs: Main catalog, Integrated Book Collection catalog, Society Publications catalog, Serials catalog, Newspaper
catalog; and in the East Asia Collection--Chinese catalog, Chinese periodical catalog, and particularly, the Special Collection
card file.
Printed material of the following organizations and publications has been integrated into the society publication, serial,
and newspaper collections of the library:
-
Allied Labor News
-
Amerasia
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Asia
-
Asia and the Americas
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Asian Horizen
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C.B.I. Roundup
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Central News Agency, Peiping Branch
-
China Aid Council, newsletter
-
China Air Mail
-
China at War
-
China Clipper
-
China Critic
-
China Defense League
-
China Defense League, newsletter
-
China Digest
-
China Forum (Shanghai)
-
China Information Bulletin
-
China Information Committee, news releases
-
China Information Service, newsletter
-
China Magazine
-
China Press Weekly
-
China Reference Series
-
China Today
-
China Weekly Review
-
China Welfare Appeal
-
China Youth
-
Chinese Affairs
-
Chinese delegation to the U.N., official press releases
-
Chinese Nation
-
Chinese News Service, special features and releases, Voice of China weekly edition
-
Chinese Opinions on Current Events
-
Chinese Press Editorials (Reuters translation)
-
Chinese Recorder
-
Chinese Workers' Correspondence
-
Chinese Workers' Pictorial
-
Chinese Writers Monthly
-
Chinese Youth
-
C.I.C. Newsletter
-
Chengtu News Bulletin
-
Committee for a Democratic Policy toward China, information bulletin
-
Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy
-
Contemporary China
-
Current Comment on Events in China
-
Daily Worker (London)
-
Democratic Youth
-
Far East Bulletin
-
Far East Spotlight
-
Far Eastern Mirror
-
Far Eastern Policy News
-
Far Eastern Quarterly
-
Far Eastern Review
-
Far Eastern Survey
-
Gung Ho News
-
Indian Information
-
Indusco Bulletin
-
Indusco C.I.C. News from China
-
Indusco, Inc. American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives
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International Literature
-
International Press Correspondence
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Korean Independence
-
Kuo Min News Agency
-
Labour Monthly
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Left News
-
Nankai Social and Economic Quarterly
-
National Reconstruction Journal
-
New China Review
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New China Weekly News Letter
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News of China
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Northwest Indusco News
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Oriental Affairs (Shanghai)
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The Outlook
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Pacific Affairs
-
Pacific Digest
-
Peoples Age
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Philippines Herald
-
Photo-History
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The Sentinel
-
Service d'archives, bulletin mensuel
-
The Showdown (Shanghai)
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Southwest Indusco News
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Szechuan Weekly Bulletin
-
Tass translation service
-
United China Relief
-
Voice of China (China news by shortwave radio)
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Voks Bulletin
-
Znamia
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Video tapes
Journalists
Communism -- China
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949
Chinese literature
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949
China -- Economic conditions -- 1912-1949
China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949
Chinese industrial cooperatives
Art -- China
Cooperative societies -- China
Fascism -- China
Labor movement -- China
Youth movements -- China
Industries -- China
CHINESE INDUSTRIAL COOPERATIVES
1936-1950, 1958
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, writings, speeches, records, and printed matter related to the establishment and development of the Chinese
Industrial Cooperative (C.I.C. or INDUSCO) movement during the 1930s and 1940s and especially to the participation of Nym
Wales (Helen Foster Snow), Edgar Snow, Rewi Alley, and Ida Pruitt. Part of this material forms the basis for Wales'
China Builds for Democracy, published in 1941. A guide to the material, prepared by Nym Wales, appears at the beginning of the series.
box 1, folder 1-3
"Notes on the Beginnings of the Industrial Cooperatives in China,"
1958
Scope and Contents
Contains mimeograph transcripts of reports, minutes, correspondence, and manuscripts, as well as notes prepared by Nym Wales
as a guide to the use of the following material.
Correspondence of Nym Wales and Edgar Snow
1936-1947
Arrangement
The correspondence of Nym Wales and Edgar Snow has been kept together because many of the letters are addressed to or concern
both parties. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
box 1, folder 4
Allen, Donald M.
1939, undated
box 1, folder 6
Babcock, Mrs. W. R. (Polly)
1941
box 1, folder 12
Chiang, Shu-Huan (Mrs. K. M. Lu)
1940
box 1, folder 14
Fairfax-Cholmeley Elsie
1940
box 1, folder 18
Hogg, George Aylwin
1940, 1942-1943
box 1, folder 19
[Hooker], Helene M. (Organizing Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives)
1941
box 1, folder 21
Hull, Cordell (Secretary of State)
1940
box 1, folder 23
Johnson, Delbert (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives)
1941
box 1, folder 24
Johnson, Nelson Trusler (Ambassador to China)
1938, 1940
box 1, folder 26
Kennard, J. Spencer, Jr.
1940
box 1, folder 28
Leacock, David (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives)
1941-1942
box 1, folder 29
Lem, Frank (Len Su-yi)
1939
box 1, folder 30
Liang, Hubert S. (Liang Shih-shun)
1938-1940
box 1, folder 31
Dr. Robert K. S. (Chinese Red Cross)
1940
box 1, folder 34
Loomis, Helen (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives)
1941
box 1, folder 37
Pruitt, Ida (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives)
1939-1944, 1947
box 1, folder 38
Roosevelt, Eleanor (Mrs. Franklin D.)
1942
box 1, folder 39
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
1940
Scope and Contents note
Contains a copy of a petition.
box 1, folder 40
Selsbee, Elizabeth (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives)
1943
box 1, folder 42
Sycip, Mrs. Alfonzo Z.
1940
box 1, folder 43
Tereshtenko, Valery J. (The Cooperative Project)
1942
box 1, folder 47
Woodman, Dorothy (Anglo-Chinese Cooperative Development Society)
1940, 1944
box 1, folder 49
Yarnell, Admiral Harry E.
1942
box 1, folder 50
Yeh, T'ing (Commander of the New Fourth Army)
1939
box 1, folder 51
Miscellaneous and unidentified
undated
Writings
1938-1941
Scope and Contents note
Contains the writings of Nym Wales arranged by literary form, then chronologically.
Articles and essays
1938-1966
box 2, folder 1
"Industrial Cooperatives Needed to Strengthen China,"
China Weekly Review, printed copy
1938 December 24
box 2, folder 2
"The Philippines Aid China's Industrial Cooperatives," by "A Manila Correspondent" (Nym Wales),
China Weekly Review
1939 June 24
Scope and Contents note
Includes printed copy and typescript drafts with carbon copies.
box 2, folder 3
"Outline of the Development of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives," carbon copies of typescript draft
circa 1939
box 2, folder 4
"China's New Line of Industrial Defense," carbon copy of typescript draft
1939 April
box 2, folder 5
"A Suggestion for Medical Cooperatives and Cooperative Clinics in China," typescript draft
circa 1939
box 2, folder 6
"Emergency Wartime Industry for China," carbon copy of typescript draft
circa 1939-1940
box 2, folder 7
"Industrial Cooperatives for Economic Defense," carbon copies of typescript drafts
circa 1939-1940
box 2, folder 8
"A Guiding Genius in the Destinies of China," carbon copy of typescript draft
circa 1940
Scope and Contents note
Includes annotations by Rewi Alley.
box 2, folder 9
"The Guiding Genius Behind China's Industrial Cooperative Movement," carbon copies of typescript drafts
circa 1940
box 2, folder 10
"'Front Line Industry' and the International Industrial Cooperative Centers in China," typescript draft with carbon copy
circa 1940
box 2, folder 11
"The 'Bailie Boys' of China's Industrial Cooperatives,"
Manila World, drafts and printed copies
1940 February 14-15
box 2, folder 12
"The Bailie Boys of China,"
Hong Kong Sunday Herald, drafts and printed copies
1940 August 11
box 2, folder 13
"China's New Industrial Defense Line: An Account of the Development of Industrial Cooperatives in China," typescript draft
circa 1940
box 2, folder 14
"Chinese Industrial Cooperatives,"
Sunday Tribune Magazine, printed copy
1940s
box 2, folder 15
"China's New Industrial Defense Line," typescript draft with carbon copies
circa 1940
box 2, folder 16
"A Thought for Bishop Gregorio Aglipay," poem
1940 September 28
Scope and Contents note
This poem was published in
Democracia and
Philippines Free Press. Includes printed copies of the poem with news clippings attached.
box 2, folder 17
"Comments and Suggestions for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives," carbon copy of typescript draft
1940s
box 2, folder 18
"Industrial Cooperatives for China's National Defense," incomplete copy of draft
1940s
box 2, folder 19
"A Story of Cooperatives in Asia. Gung Ho,"
Mother Earth Quarterly, photocopy
July 1966
Pamphlets
circa 1939-1940
box 2, folder 20
An Industrial Defense Line for China
Scope and Contents note
Also includes typescript drafts with carbon copies.
box 2, folder 21
Chinese Industrial Cooperatives
Scope and Contents note
Contains notations by Nym Wales and possibly Edgar Snow.
box 2, folder 22-23
China Builds for Democracy, chapter drafts and notes
1941
box 2, folder 24
Miscellaneous notes
undated
Collected writings and speeches
1938-1942
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author, literary form (where the variety warrants it), and then chronologically.
Alley, Rewi
1939-1949, undated
box 3, folder 1
"Report on the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives,"
Manila Telegraph (sic), printed copy and carbon copy of typescript
1939 February 28
box 3, folder 2
"Chinese Industrial Cooperatives,"
Manila World
1939 July 5-6
Scope and Contents note
Contains a printed copy, mimeograph copy, and carbon copy of the typewritten transcript of a speech first given at Chengtu.
box 3, folder 3
"Report on C.I.C. Work Seen in N.W.H.Q. [Northwest Headquarters] Area," typescript
1939 January-February
box 3, folder 4
"Chinese Industrial Cooperatives Gain Headway in Interior,"
China Press, printed copy
1939 March 13
box 3, folder 5
"A Plan for the Development of Industrial Cooperatives in the Border Government Area of the North West Yennan Office C.I.C.,"
typescript
1939 March 18
box 3, folder 6
"Chinese Industrial Cooperatives for a New Southeast," Tingchow, typescript with carbon copies
1939 April 28
box 3, folder 7
"General Report on Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, May 1, 1939,"
Manila World, printed and carbon copy of typescript
1939 June 13
box 3, folder 8
"The Chinese Industrial Co-operatives," Reprints from the
China Journal
1939 May
box 3, folder 9
"Model Constitution for Chinese Industrial Cooperative Societies,"
Manila World, printed copies
1939 May 19
box 3, folder 10
"Searching Old Trails for New Industry,"
China
Weekly Review, printed copy
1939 June 3
box 3, folder 11
"New Men--New Industries,"
Manila World, printed copy
1939 September 5
box 3, folder 12
Speech before the finance department of the Kansu Provincial Government, Lanchow, Kansu, carbon copy of typewritten transcript
1939 November 29
box 3, folder 13
"Some Comments on Work for C.I.C. 1940 Conference," mimeograph copy
1940 July
box 3, folder 14
"The Sungpan Valley Awakes,"
Asia, printed copy
1940 January
box 3, folder 15
"Two Years of Indusco,"
1940
Scope and Contents note
Contains an autographed booklet and annotated carbon copies of typescript drafts.
box 3, folder 16
"War-time Industry,"
South China Morning Post, printed transcript of speech
1940 August 13
box 3, folder 17
"Shantan Bailie School," printed copy
1949
box 3, folder 18
"The Engineer in Cooperative Society," typescript
undated
box 3, folder 19
"Rebuilding China's Industry by Cooperatives," typescript with carbon copy
undated
box 3, folder 20
"New Men and New Industries in China's New Northwest," carbon copies of typescript
undated
box 3, folder 21
"Development of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives in the Northwest," printed copy
undated
box 3, folder 22
Poems and stories
undated
box 3, folder 23
Arnold, Dorothy, "From the Ashes of Devastation Rises the Phoenix of China's Industrial Cooperatives,"
Manila World, printed copy
1939 September 12
box 3, folder 24
Bertram, James, "Chinese Industrial Co-operatives,"
World Telegraph (Manila), printed and typescript copies
1939 April 6
box 3, folder 25
Buck, Pearl S., "Free China Gets to Work,"
Asia, printed copy
1939 April
box 3, folder 26
Carlson, Evans Fordyce, "Economic Democracy in China,"
Amerasia, reprint
1941 March
box 3, folder 27
Chen, Jack, "Progress of China's Industrial Cooperatives,"
1939
Scope and Contents note
Includes various reproductions of a series of twenty annotated drawings.
box 3, folder 28
Chiang, Madame Kai-Shek, "Chinese Industrial Cooperatives,"
World Telegraph (Manila), printed copy
1939 May 6
box 3, folder 29
Crouter, Natalie C. "A Drop in the Bucket," carbon copies of typescript
undated
box 3, folder 30
Deane, Hugh. "Chengtu Cooperatives Chalk Up Big Gains After One Year of Activity,"
China Weekly Review, printed copy
1940 February 24
box 3, folder 31
Durdin, F. Tillman. "Co-operatives Spreading Over China,"
Manila World, printed copy
1939 August 15
box 3, folder 32
"Far from the maddening headlines...," carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 3, folder 33
Fischer, Galen M. "The Cooperative Movement in Japan,"
Pacific Affairs, printed copies
1938 December
box 3, folder 34
Foster, John B. "Chinese Industrial Cooperatives in the Far Southwest,"
China Weekly Review, printed copy
1939 November 18
box 3, folder 35
Fowler, Bertram B. "China's Guerilla Industry," reprints from
Survey Graphic
1941 February
box 3, folder 36
"Industrial Hope for China,"
World Telegraph, printed copies
1939 March 2
box 3, folder 37
"Co-ops Thrive in Mid-China River Valley,"
World Telegraph, printed copy
1939 May 9
box 3, folder 38
"How China Learns to Build Anew,"
Christian Science Monitor, printed copy
1940 January 30
box 3, folder 39
Graham, Dorothy, "China Offers a Solution,"
Manila World, printed copies
1939 August 22
box 3, folder 40
Hadley, Watson, Jr., "Industrial Cooperatives Forward Reconstuction,"
China Press, reprints
1939 October 10
Hogg, George Aylwin
1939-1943, undated
box 4, folder 1
"C.I.C. Gold Mining and Washing in Southwest Shensi,"
1939 December 16
Scope and Contents note
Contains a carbon copy of typescript with biographical note by Nym Wales attached.
box 4, folder 2
"Chinese Industrial Cooperatives and Refugees from the Hopei Flood Areas," typescript with carbon copies
1940 January 10
box 4, folder 3
"Personal History of K. M. Lu," carbon copy of typescript
1940 March 14
box 4, folder 4
"C.I.C. Education in the Northwest," carbon copy of typescript
1940 May 31
box 4, folder 5
"My Neighbors Build a City," carbon copy of typescript
1940 June 2
box 4, folder 6
News release from Second Annual Conference of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, Chungking, typewritten transcript
1940 July 13
box 4, folder 7
"Dragon's Iron," carbon copy of typescript
1940 July 2
box 4, folder 8
"Lanchow, Co-operative Outpost," carbon copy of typescript
1941 January
box 4, folder 9
"Report on the Front Line Depot of Southeast Shansi," typescript
1941 February
box 4, folder 10
"War Weave," carbon copy of typescript
circa 1940-1941
box 4, folder 11
"Training Cooperative Leaders for China,"
Free World, reprint
1943 June
box 4, folder 12
"Enabling the Disabled," typescript with carbon copy
undated
box 4, folder 13
Homer, Joy, "China's Industrial Cooperatives,"
Manila World, printed copies
1939 October 3
box 4, folder 14
Howard, Harry Paxton, "Cooperation in the Far East: Japanese, Chinese and Indian Cooperatives Prepare Way for Economic Democracy
in Asia,"
Commonweal, printed copy
1942 July 24
box 4, folder 15
Kung, H. H. "Industrial Co-operatives and the War,"
World Telegraph, printed copy
1939 March 3
box 4, folder 16
Lattimore, Owen, "The Bailie Schools of China," mimeograph transcript of speech
1944 October 23
box 4, folder 17
Liang, Hubert S., "Impressions and Observations of China's Northwest," mimeograph copies
1940 January 25
box 4, folder 18
Liang, Hubert S., "Industrial Co-operatives Revitalize China's Northwest,"
Manila World, printed and carbon copy of typescript
1940 February 22
box 4, folder 19
Lin, Yutang, "The Birth of a New China,"
World Telegraph, printed copy
1938 April
box 4, folder 20
Liu, K. P., "Chinese Industrial Cooperatives,"
World Telegraph, printed copy
1939 May 13
box 4, folder 21
Liu, K. P., "Development of Chinese Industrial Co-operatives," carbon copy of typescript
1940 July
box 4, folder 22
Ma, Hai-Teh, "I Knew Dr. Norman Bethune,"
Democracia, printed copies
undated
Note
Author also known as Dr. George Hatem.
box 4, folder 23
Mu, Hsin, "Cooperatives in the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghia Border District,"
Sing Tao Jih Pao
1940 July 9
Prutt, Ida
1939-1940, undated
box 4, folder 24
"China's Industrial Pioneers,"
China Journal, reprints
1939 February
box 4, folder 25
"Chinese Industrial Cooperatives,"
Manila World, printed copy
1939 December 12
box 4, folder 26
"China's Industrial Wall,"
Survey Graphic, reprints
1940 March
box 4, folder 27
"Decentralized Industry,"
China Monthly, reprints
undated
box 4, folder 28
"The Bailie School at Sandan," carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 4, folder 29
Roy, Andrew T., "The Northwest Fights," carbon copy of typescript
1939 June
box 4, folder 30
Simester, Edith, "Economic Reconstruction for Rural Workers in Fukien,"
China Weekly Review, printed copy
1939 May
box 4, folder 31
Sinclair, T. Lowry, Jr., "Through South China," typescript
undated
box 4, folder 32
Smith, W. B., "China's Cash-&-Carry Industries,"
China Press Sunday Magazine, printed copies
1939 February 12
box 4, folder 33
"A Letter from China (June 25, 1939),"
Manila World, printed copy
1939 August 8
box 4, folder 34
"Every Co-op A Nucleus of a New World in the Making,"
World Call, printed copy
1941 April
box 4, folder 35
"The Chinese Industrial Cooperative Movement,"
China at War, printed copy
1942 October
Snow, Edgar
1938-1940, undated
Articles
1939-1940, undated
box 4, folder 36
"China's New Industrial Army,"
Manila World, printed copy and carbon copy of typescript
1939 October 10
box 4, folder 37
"The Dragon Licks His Wounds,"
Saturday Evening Post, printed copy and carbon copy of typescript draft
1940 April 13
box 4, folder 38
"China's Blitzbuilder, Rewi Alley,"
Saturday Evening Post, reprint
undated
Reports
circa 1939-1940, undated
box 4, folder 39
"Discussion of Needs of Partisan Districts in Japanese Rear for Immediate Military Supplies and for Establishment of Small
Mobile War Industries," carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 4, folder 40
"Recommendations to the International Committee," typescript with carbon copies
circa 1939-1940
box 4, folder 41
"War and Change in China," carbon copy of typewritten transcript
undated
box 4, folder 42
News dispatches sent to the London
Daily Herald, carbon copy of typescript
1938 September 20
box 4, folder 43
Miscellaneous notes
undated
box 4, folder 44
"Towards the achievement of Chinese Independence,"
Manila World, printed copies
1939 November 22-23
box 4, folder 45
Transcript of radio broadcast on Chinese Industrial Cooperatives
1939 December
box 4, folder 46
"Cooperative Industrial Policy for China in the Present Emergency," carbon copy of typescript
1938 May 2
box 4, folder 47
"Potentialities of the Cooperative Movement in China,"
Chinese Social and Political Science Review, printed copy
1937 April
box 4, folder 48
Tseng, Li-Kwang. "New Hope for China,"
Threshold, printed copy
1942 October
box 4, folder 49
Walsh, Richard J. "China Cooperates,"
Manila World, printed copy and typescript
1939 August 1
box 4, folder 50
Wang, Mei-tseng, "The Conditions of the Progress in Industry of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region,"
1941 November
Scope and Contents note
Includes a transcript of the article published in
Liberation Daily.
box 4, folder 51
Willcox, Helen L.
One for All, carbon copy of script for one-act play
undated
box 4, folder 52
Vey, Ruth, "Cooperatives in the Northwest,"
China Weekly Review, printed copy
1940 May 4
Collected correspondence
1938-1950
Scope and Contents note
Contains correspondence of organizations and individuals associated with the Chinese Industrial Cooperative movement.
General correspondence
1938-1950
box 5, folder 2
American Friends Service Committee
1950
box 5, folder 6
Carter, Edward C.
1939, 1942
box 5, folder 8
Chen, Han-seng
1939-1940, 1942
box 5, folder 9
Chinese Engineering Students Association of the University of the Philippines
1940
box 5, folder 11
Chuan, Mrs. Dee C., Philippine Chinese Women's Relief Association
1940
box 5, folder 13
Edwards, Dwight (United China Relief)
1943-1944
box 5, folder 14
Fitch, George A.
1940-1941
box 5, folder 19
Herman, Theodore
1940, 1947
box 5, folder 21
Lanchow Bailie School
1947
box 5, folder 22
Lapwood, E. Ralph
1940-1942
box 5, folder 27
Los Angeles-Hollywood Organizing Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives
1941
box 5, folder 32
More, G. R. (American Red Cross)
1944
box 5, folder 33
Northwest Education Planning Committee
1938
box 5, folder 34
Price, Mildred (China Aid Council)
1940
box 5, folder 35
Pruitt, Ida (American Committee for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives)
1939-1940
box 5, folder 37
Robinson, Leland Rex (American Bureau for Aid to China)
1942
box 5, folder 40
Smythe, Lewis and Margaret
1939-1945
box 5, folder 41
Sun, Madame Yat-Sen (Soong Ching Ling)
1942-1944
box 5, folder 42
Sweet, Lennig, United China Relief
1944
box 5, folder 43
Taft, Charles A. (President's War Relief Control Board)
1942
box 5, folder 46
Van Slyke, Dr. Donald D.
1944
box 5, folder 49
Yarnell, Admiral Harry E.
1940
box 5, folder 51
Miscellaneous and unidentified,
1938-1944
Indusco, Inc. American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives
1942-1950
box 6, folder 1
General
1942-1947
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence to members of the board of directors.
box 6, folder 3
Babcock, Polly (Mrs. W. R.)
1941
box 6, folder 8
Carter, Edward C.
1942, 1944-1945
box 6, folder 11
Chen, Han-seng
1942, 1944
box 6, folder 15
Fairfax-Cholmeley, Elsie
1943-1944
box 6, folder 16
Ferguson, Mary (United China Relief)
1944
box 6, folder 19
Foley, William E. (U.S. Department of Justice)
1950
box 6, folder 23
Freeman, Mansfield (United China Relief)
1945
box 6, folder 24
Garside, B. A. (United China Relief)
1944
box 6, folder 26
Hall, Ronald O. (Episcopal Bishop of Hong Kong)
1942-1949
box 6, folder 28
Herod, W. R. (United China Relief)
1942
box 6, folder 29
Hogg, George Aylwin
1942, 1944
box 6, folder 34
Lapwood, E. Ralph
1944-1945
box 6, folder 35
McConaughty, Dr. James L.
1944
box 6, folder 37
Meng, Yung-chien
1942, 1949
box 6, folder 40
Roosevelt, Eleanor (Mrs. Franklin D.)
1942
box 6, folder 46
Tee-Van, Mrs. (United China Relief)
1945
box 6, folder 47
Townsend, Peter
1944-1949
box 6, folder 48
Van Slyke, Dr. Donald D.
1944
box 6, folder 51
Welles, Sumner (Acting Secretary of State)
1942
box 6, folder 53
Woodman, Dorothy (Anglo-Chinese Development Society)
1945
Philippine Association for Industrial Cooperatives in China
1939-1941
box 6, folder 57
Chiang, Madame Kai-shek
1940
box 6, folder 58
Chiang, Shu-huan (Mrs. K. M. Lu)
1940
box 6, folder 59
Hall, Ronald O. (Episcopal Bishop of Hong Kong)
1940
box 6, folder 61
Hoover, Herbert
1940
Scope and Contents note
Contains an appeal concerning China relief.
box 6, folder 63
International Committee of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives
1940
box 6, folder 69
McNutt, Mrs. Paul V.
1939-1940
box 6, folder 70
Philippine Chinese Women's Relief Association
1940
box 6, folder 71
Roys, Mrs. Charles Kirkland (Church Committee for China Relief)
1940
box 6, folder 75
Women's Work Department of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Northwest Headquarters
1940
box 6, folder 77
Yarnell, Admiral Harry E.
1940
Collected records of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative movement
1930s-1940s
box 7, folder 1
Anglo-Chinese (Cooperative) Development Society
undated
box 7, folder 2
Central Promotion Committee
undated
Chinese Industrial Cooperative Associations (Societies)
undated
box 7, folder 4
Che-wan Regional Headquarters, Chekiang Office
box 7, folder 5
Che-wan Regional Headquarters, Anhwei Office
box 7, folder 6
Chin-yu Regional Headquarters, Southeast Shansi Depot
box 7, folder 7
Chuan-kong Regional Headquarters, Chengtu Office
undated
box 7, folder 8
Chuan-kong Regional Headquarters, Yung Chang Depot
Northwest Regional Headquarters (Shensi, Chainghai, Kansu, Ninghsia)
undated
box 7, folder 12
Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border District
box 7, folder 16-17
Southeast Regional Headquarters
box 7, folder 18
Yunnan Regional Headquarters
box 8, folder 1
Hong Kong (Shanghai) Promotion Committee
undated
box 8, folder 2-3
Indusco, Inc., American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives
1940-1941
Note
Also known as the American Committee for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives.
box 8, folder 4
Industrial Cooperative Commission
undated
box 8, folder 5
Industrial Cooperative Institute
undated
box 8, folder 6
Industrial Cooperative Trust of China
undated
box 8, folder 7
Institute for the Advancement of Indusco
undated
box 8, folder 8
International Committee for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives Productive Relief Fund
undated
box 8, folder 9
Organizing Committee
1938
box 8, folder 10
Philippine Association for Industrial Cooperatives in China
undated
box 8, folder 11
United China Relief
undated
box 9, folder 1
Handbills, advertisements, and posters of various Chinese Industrial Cooperative Associations
undated
Biographical material,
undated
News clippings
1938-1941
undated
box 9, folder 11
Miscellaneous printed and typewritten material
undated
CHINESE LABOR MOVEMENT
1934-1945, undated
Scope and Contents note
Writings, speeches, articles, and news agency releases related to the history of the Chinese labor movement from the 1920s
to the mid 1940s.
box 10, folder 1
Chronologies of the Chinese labor movement
undated
Writings and speeches
circa 1945
Scope and Contents note
Writing and speeches by Nym Wales arranged by literary form and then chronologically.
Articles and essays
1945, undated
box 10, folder 2
"The Chinese Labor Movement," carbon copies of typescript draft
undated
box 10, folder 3
"Chinese Labor and War Production," typescript draft
undated
box 10, folder 4
"Labor Unions in China,"
The Protestant, typescript draft and printed copy
1945 May
box 10, folder 5
"The Fate of Labor under Chiang,"
The Protestant, typescript draft and printed copy
1945 August-September
Note
The typescript draft has a different title.
box 10, folder 6-8
The Chinese Labor Movement
Scope and Contents note
Contains chapter drafts and notes.
Speeches and interviews
undated
box 10, folder 9
Notes for a talk on the Chinese Labor Movement, typescript
box 10, folder 10
Interview discussing
The Chinese Labor Movement, carbon copy of typewritten transcript
Collected writings
1934-1944, undated
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author or title.
box 10, folder 11
"Background of the Chinese Labor Movement," carbon copy of typescript
1942 April
box 10, folder 12
Chu, Hseuh-fan, "Memoranda of the Problem of Chinese Seamen on European Ships," mimeograph
1942 April
box 10, folder 13
"Zhongguo de baogong zhi," manuscript
1934
Note
English translation of title: "Chinese Contract Working System
box 10, folder 14
"Yijiusansi nian baiqu gongren douzheng tongji," carbon copy of handwritten manuscript
1934
Note
See also: Oversize Material, number 1.
box 10, folder 15
"A Labor Hero in Yenan," carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 10, folder 16
"Labor Movement in North China," typescript
1944 July
box 10, folder 17
"Labor Trouble at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving in Peiping," carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 10, folder 18
Lowe, Chuan-Hua, "Facing Labor Issues in China," carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 10, folder 19
"Memorandum on conversation with Ernest Liu," carbon copy of typescript
1942 May 8
box 10, folder 20
Mu, Yi, "Labor Policy and Workers' Life in the Border Regions," carbon copy of typescript
1942 October 20
box 10, folder 21
"ShangHai RenLiChe FengChao," carbon copy of manuscript
1934
Note
English translation of title: "The Shanghai Rickshaw Workers Strike"
box 10, folder 22
"Shanghai Ying Mei Yan GongSi TongMeng BaGong," carbon copy of manuscript
1934
Note
English translation of title: "Shanghai British-American Tobacco Company Strike"
box 10, folder 23
Tang, H. "Beginnings of Industry," carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 10, folder 24
"The Workers Struggle of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving in Peiping," typescript
undated
box 10, folder 25
Magazine and journal articles
undated
box 10, folder 26
Allied Labor News news releases
1943-1944
CHINESE STUDENT MOVEMENT
1931-1937, 1959
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, writings, news agency releases, news clippings, broadsides, and manifestos related to the Chinese student
movement during the 1930s and particularly the role of Nym Wales as a journalist and friend of the students. A guide to the
material, prepared by Nym Wales, appears at the beginning of the series.
box 11, folder 1-2
"Notes on the Chinese Student Movement, 1935-1936,"
1959
Scope and Contents
Two copies of a mimeograph transcript written by Nym Wales as a guide to the following material. 201 pages total.
box 11, folder 3
Chronologies of the Chinese student movement
undated
Correspondence of Nym Wales and Edgar Snow
1935-1937
box 11, folder 5
Chang, Chao-lin
1935-1936
box 11, folder 8
Li, Min
1935-1936
Note
Also known as "Marie" or "Matsuhara."
box 11, folder 9
Liu, Tsui ("Suzie")
1935-1937
box 11, folder 13
Wang, Ju-mei
1936
Note
Also known as Hua Huang.
box 11, folder 16
Yui, David
1936
Note
Also known as Ch'i-wei Yu or Ching Huang.
Writings
1935-1937
Scope and Contents note
Writings by Nym Wales arranged by literary form and then chronologically.
Articles and essays
1935-1936
box 11, folder 18
"Is Youth Crushed Again in China?," carbon copy of unpublished typescript draft
1935 October
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes.
box 11, folder 19
"Student Revival in North China,"
China Weekly Review, carbon copy of typescript draft
1935 November 16
Scope and Contents note
Author listed as Hsueh Hai-lun, Wales' Chinese pseudonym. Includes letter to J. B. Powell, editor of the
China Weekly Review.
box 11, folder 20
"The Peiping Student Movement," and "Futher Developments in the Peiping Student Movement,"
China Weekly Review
1935 December 28
Scope and Contents note
Author of the first article listed as Peggy Foster Snow, another pseudonym of Nym Wales. Articles appear on consecutive pages
with photos annotated by Nym Wales. Also included are carbon copies of typescript drafts with slightly different titles.
box 11, folder 21
"Newsmen and Student Demonstrations in Peiping,"
China Weekly Review, carbon copy of typescript draft and printed copy
1935 December 28
box 11, folder 22
"Half-Century Sino-American Educational Development Manaced by Japanese Domination" and "The Propaganda War and Afterward,"
China Weekly Review, printed copies with annotated photos
1936 February 22
Scope and Contents note
The first article was probably written by Nym Wales; however, no author is stated. The second article is authored by "A Correspondent
in Peiping," in this case, Nym Wales.
"On the Student Front in Peiping,"
1936
Scope and Contents note
Includes articles written for the
China Weekly Reviewunder the title "On the Student Front in Peiping" or "On the Peiping Student Front." All articles listed as being written
by "A Correspondent in Peiping," in this case, Nym Wales.
box 11, folder 26
"The students in the north...," untitled manuscript
1936 April 29
Scope and Contents note
Includes letter to J. B. Powell.
box 11, folder 31
"Scores of students...," untitled carbon copy of typescript draft
undated
box 11, folder 32
"Liu Tsui of Tsingghua," carbon copy of typescript draft
undated
box 11, folder 33
"China's Youth in Revolt," carbon copy of typescript draft
undated
Note
Authorship uncertain.
box 11, folder 34
Miscellaneous incomplete drafts
undated
box 11, folder 35
News dispatches
circa 1936-1937
box 11, folder 38
Yui, David
Note
Also known as Ch'i-wei Yu and Ching Huang.
Collected writings
1936
undated
box 12, folder 1
"Confession of a Blue-Shirt Member,"
Chiu-Kuo Shih-Pao, Paris, carbon copies typescripts
1936 March 20
box 12, folder 2
Han, Li-sheng, "The Principle Duty of the National Salvation Movement at the Present Stage,"
Hseuh-sheng Hu-sheng (Student Voice Magazine)
1936 May 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript translation from Chinese.
box 12, folder 3
Hsi-Hsien, "The Meaning and Duty of the Student Movement,"
Hseuh-sheng Hu-sheng (Student Voice Magazine)
1936 May 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript translation from Chinese.
box 12, folder 4
[Peita University student], "Since the conclusion of the anti-imperialist movement...," typescript
1936
box 12, folder 5
Snow, Edgar, news dispatches sent to the London
Daily Herald
undated
box 12, folder 6
[Tsinghua University student], "Of course we had been expecting a raid...," carbon copy of typescript draft
1936 March 1
box 12, folder 7
Tsin, "A General Survey of the Student Movement Since the December 9th (sic),"
Hseuh-sheng Hu-sheng (Student Voice Magazine)
1936 May 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript translation from Chinese.
box 12, folder 8-9
Wang, Ju-mei (Hua Huang)
1936, undated
box 12, folder 10
Wang, Pin-tao, "The Chief Work of Students at Present,"
Hseuh-sheng Hu-sheng (Student Voice Magazine)
1936 May 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript translation from Chinese.
News agency releases
circa 1935-1936
box 12, folder 12
Tass Translation Service
undated
box 12, folder 15-20
News clippings from English-language Chinese press
1931-1936, undated
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by year.
Manifestos, broadsides, resolutions and appeals
circa 1935-1936
Scope and Contents note
Material in Chinese and English, issued by faculty and student associations and arranged according to the issuing organization.
See also: Sino-Japanese Conflict and Oversize Material, numbers 2-7.
box 13, folder 3
Chung-kuo University, Peiping
box 13, folder 4
Cultural Circles National Liberation Association
box 13, folder 5
Fu-tan (Fudan) University, Shanghai
box 13, folder 7
National Peiping University
box 13, folder 8
National Salvation Associations
box 13, folder 9
National Tsinghua University
box 13, folder 10
North China Brain-Workers Association
box 13, folder 11
Northern China Cultural Workers Association
box 13, folder 12
Peiping People's General Assembly
box 13, folder 13-14
Peiping Student Union
Scope and Contents note
Subsequently known as the Peiping Student's National Liberation Union. Folder 14 contains English translations.
box 14, folder 3
Shanghai National Salvation Union
box 14, folder 4
Tientsin Nankai University
box 14, folder 5
Tokyo Chinese Student National Salvation Group
Note
See also: Oversize Material, number 6.
box 14, folder 7
Union of Above Middle School Students, Peiping, Tientsin, and Paoting
box 14, folder 8
World Student Association
box 14, folder 9-10
Yenching University
Scope and Contents note
Folder 10 contains English translations.
box 14, folder 11
Young Students National Salvation Group of North China
SINO-JAPANESE CONFLICT
1931-1945
Scope and Contents note
Writings, interviews, broadsides, manifestos, news clippings, and news agency releases concerning Sino-Japanese hostilities
during the 1930s and 1940s.
box 15, folder 1
"Japan's White Hope: Wang Ching-Wei," typescript drafts with carbon copy
Collected writings
1936-1942
undated
box 15, folder 2
Chu, Teh, "Guerilla Warfare Against Japan," handwritten translation
1938 February
box 15, folder 3
"Guerilla Activities of the New Fourth Army," carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 15, folder 4
Hogg, George Aylwin, "The Road," carbon copy of typescript
1942
box 15, folder 5
Interview with General Chang Chun, carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 15, folder 6
Lee, Hsiao-tung, "The Guerilla Movement in the Resistance Campaign," carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 15, folder 7
Lo, Jui-ching, "The Past and Present Political Activities of the Eighth Route Army," annotated carbon copy of typescript
1938
box 15, folder 8
Mao, Tse-tung, "Wei cheng ch'ü ch'ien pai wan ch'ün chung chin ju k'ang jih min ts'ung i chan hsien erh tou cheng," mimeograph
1937
Note
Title translation: "Struggle to Win Over the Masses to Join the Fight of the National United Front Against the Japanese"
box 15, folder 9
Matsumuro, General, "Secret Report to the Kwangtung Army," handwritten and carbon copies of typescript
1936 July
box 15, folder 10
"North China Front," communicated by G. M. Hall, carbon copy of typescript
1943 August 14
box 15, folder 11
"Notes on the China Situation," by I. P. (?), carbon copy of typescript
1943
box 15, folder 12
Outline of the political and economic changes in the Sino-Japanese war, typescript
undated
box 15, folder 13
Record of the "Mobilization in the Northwestern Special District for the War of Resistance," carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 15, folder 14
Report on the Sakai-Takahashi interview, typescript
1935 May
box 15, folder 15
Smedley, Agnes, "China's Northwestern Front," carbon copy of typescript
1937 October
box 15, folder 16
Yung, "The Struggle between Anti-Japanese and Pro-Japanese and Our Attitude toward the Third Plenary Session of Kuomintang,"
handwritten translation
undated
Manifestos and broadsides
1935-1937
undated
box 15, folder 18
Chung-hua min tsu chien fang hsing tung wei yüan hui, Peiping shih kung tso t'uan, Fan tui Jih-pen chin kung sui-yüan (National
Liberation Committee, Peiping Working Group statement)
1935
Hua pei wen hua lao tung che hsieh hui (Association of North China Cultural Workers)
box 15, folder 19
Wei shik chü kao kuo jen shu (address to the nation concerning the current situation)
1935
box 15, folder 20
Wei shik chü tsai kao kuo jen (second address to the nation concerning the current situation)
1936
Pei-p'ing ko chieh chiu kuo lien ho hui tui shik chü hsüan yen (Peiping National Salvation Association)
box 15, folder 21
Statement concerning the current situation
1937
box 15, folder 22
Pei-p'ing ko chiek chiu kuo lien ho hui ch'eng li hsüan yen (statement on the founding of the organization
1937
Note
See also: Oversize Material, number 8.
Pei-p'ing wen hua chieh chiu kuo hui (Peiping Cultural Workers National Salvation Association)
box 15, folder 23
Wei'i erh pa' chi nien hsüan yen (statement commemorating "One Two Eight")
1936 January 28
box 15, folder 24
Wei fan tui Kuang- t'ien san yüan tse t'ung tien (statement against the Hirota's three principles to China)
1936
box 15, folder 25
Wei "erh ch'iü chi nien kao ch'üan kuo t'ung pao shu (address to the Nation commemorating February 7, 1936)
1936
box 15, folder 26
"Shang-hai ko chieh chiu kuo hui kao t'ung pao shu" (Shanghai National Salvation Association address to the nation)
circa 1935
box 15, folder 27
"Tung pei lü P'ing Ch'ing nien chiu kuo hui," Wei i erh chiu, i erh i liu chi nien hsüan yen
undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains a statement by the National Salvation Group of Manchurian Youth in Peiping commemorating January 29th and December
16th 193-, with illustrations.
box 15, folder 29
"Chiu kui shih jen t'uan tsu chih kang yao,"
1935
Scope and Contents note
Contains an outline of the National Salvation Group.
box 15, folder 30
"Chih te chiu wang t'ung chih fang hsiao ti liang chung ching shen" (The Two Kinds of Spirit Worthy of Imitation by the Comrades
of National Salvation)
1937
box 15, folder 28
Wu, Han chen and Fang, Yu-yen, "Tzu wo hsi sheng kua ming yün tung" (The Movement of 'Nominal' Self-sacrifice)
undated
box 15, folder 31
Miscellaneous
undated
Scope and Contents note
Items in Chinese.
Magazine and journal articles
1931-1945, undated
box 15, folder 33
Ch'ien-hsien (Frontier), Kuo-min ko-ming chün, Ti shik pa chi t'uan chün, Tsung cheng-chik pu,
1938 February 25
Scope and Contents note
From the National Revolutionary Army, 18th Corp, Central Political Bureau.
box 15, folder 34
"China's Japanese Allies,"
Asia
1939 June
box 15, folder 35
"What Can We Expect from China,"
Saturday Evening Post,
undated
box 16, folder 5
News agency releases and translations
undated
SIAN INCIDENT
circa 1936-1937, 1960
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, writings, interviews, news agency releases and dispatches, clippings, and other material related to the kidnapping
of Chiang Kai-shek in the so-called Sian (Xi'an) Incident of December 1936. A guide to the material, prepared by Nym Wales,
appears at the beginning of the series.
box 17, folder 1-2
"Notes on the Sian Incident, 1936,"
1960
Scope and Contents note
Two copies of a mimeograph transcript created by Nym Wales as a guide to the following material. 200 pages each.
Correspondence of Nym Wales and Edgar Snow
1936-1937
box 18, folder 5
Herz, Henriette
1936-1937
box 18, folder 8
Ma, Hai-teh (Dr. George Hatem)
1936
box 18, folder 10
MacDonald, Mr. and Mrs.
1936
Writings
1936-1937
Arrangement
Arranged by literary form and then, chronologically.
Articles and essays
1936-1937
box 18, folder 18
"Conquest by 'Peace and Order'" and "What Will China Do?," typescript drafts
1936 June
box 18, folder 19
"Northeastern Exiles Prepared to 'Fight Back to Old Home,'" carbon copy of typescript
1936 October 11
Scope and Contents note
Draft sent to J. B. Powell of the
China Weekly Review.
box 18, folder 20
"The Tungpei Army Looks Homeward!," carbon copy of typescript draft and printed copy
1936 October
box 18, folder 21
"The Chinese Puzzle," incomplete typescript draft
1936 November
box 18, folder 22
"Notes on the Sianfu Situation," carbon copy of typescript draft
1936 December 16
box 18, folder 24
"Nanking's Dilemma," typescript drafts
1936 December
box 18, folder 23
"Democracy for China," typescript draft with carbon copies
1936-1937
Scope and Contents note
Dated December 25, 1936 with a revision on January 4, 1937.
box 18, folder 25
"The Crisis in China," typescript drafts
1937 January 14
box 18, folder 27
"The Present Status of the Chinese Revolution," typescript drafts
1937 March 9
Scope and Contents note
The final page of one typescript contains an edited draft of the first page of Edgar Snow's "The Reds and the Northwest" on
the reverse side.
box 18, folder 26
"China and Democracy," typescript draft
1937 March 14
box 18, folder 28
Sun, Li, typescript notes
1936 March 9
box 18, folder 29
Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang, Northeastern Army Headquarters, Sian
1936 October 3
Scope and Contents note
Includes holograph notes, a news agency release, and news clippings from the London
Daily Herald and the
North China Star).
box 18, folder 30
Colonel Wan Yi of the Tungpei Army, holograph notes and typewritten transcript
1936 October 5
box 18, folder 31
Wang, dean of the Engineering College at Tungpei University, holograph notes and typewritten transcript
1936 December 21
box 18, folder 32
James Bertram, holograph notes and typewritten transcript
1937 February 11
box 18, folder 33
News dispatches sent to the London
Daily Herald
1936 October
Collected writings
1936-1938
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author or title, then by literary form.
box 18, folder 35-37
Interviews
1936-1937
Scope and Contents note
Includes interviews with General Yang Hu-chen on December 30, 1936; Madame Yang Hu-chen on January 12, 1937; and Lei Wei Cheng,
manager of the provincial Bank of Shensi, on January 15, 1937. The interviews with General Yang Hu-chen and Madame Yang Hu-chen
also include telegrams.
box 18, folder 38
News dispatches sent to the London
Daily Herald
1936 December - 1937 January
box 18, folder 39
"Chiang Kai-shek's Arrest," carbon copy of typescript
1937 December
box 18, folder 40
"Japan Pussyfoots in China," carbon copy of typescript draft
circa 1937
box 18, folder 41
"Must China Fight Japan?," carbon copy of typescript draft
circa early 1936
box 18, folder 42
"On Leftists," carbon copy of typescript draft
circa 1937
Note
Possibly by Liu Shao-ch'i or David Yui.
box 18, folder 43
Smedley, Agnes, news dispatches sent from Sian,
1937
box 18, folder 44-45
Articles
undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains typescript drafts of "Comments on Izvestia and Pravda Editorials" and "Izvestia's Comments Objectively Advantageous
to Japanese Imperialism."
box 18, folder 46-47
Interviews
1938
Scope and Contents note
Contains typewritten transcripts of interviews with Po Ku, delegate of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Hankow,
on July 23, 1938 and Miao Feng Shan, political advisor to Marshal Chang, on September 13, 1938 (conducted with Nym Wales).
The Shan interview also contains holograph notes.
box 18, folder 48
News agency releases
1936-1937
Scope and Contents note
Contains material from
Central News,
Kuo Min News,
People's News,
Reuters,
Sian News Agency, and
Tass. Arranged according to issuing agency.
box 18, folder 49
News clippings, English-language Chinese press
1936-1937
Manifestos, broadsides, reports, appeals and open-letters
1936-1937
box 18, folder 50
Ch'üan kuo jen min k'ang ti chiu kuo hui, Wei Chang Hsüeh-liang chi Yang Hu-ch'eng erh chiang chün i ping chien chiang kao
ch'üan kuo ko chieh t'ung pao shu,
undated
Scope and Contents note
An address by the National Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Association to the nation concerning General Chang Hsüeh-liang's
and General Yang Hu-cheng's armed admonition to Chiang.
box 18, folder 51
Hsi-pei ko chieh yung hu Chang Yang liang chiang chün chiu kuo chu chang min chung ta hui, Shih erh yüeh shih liu jih
undated
Scope and Contents note
Resolution of the general meeting of the Nation's Northwestern Community, held on December 16 in support of General Chang
and General Yang's position with regard to the fate of the nation.
box 18, folder 52
Chiu kuo shih pao
1936 December 18
Scope and Contents note
A sheet from
National Salvation Daily, number 207.
box 18, folder 53
All China Federation of National Salvation Unions
undated
box 18, folder 54
Chang, Hsüeh-liang and Yang, Hu-chen,
undated
box 18, folder 56
Chung-kuo kung ch'an tang, Pei fang chü tui Hsi-an shih pien ho p'ing chieh chüeh hsüan yen
1936
Scope and Contents note
Statement concerning the peaceful settlement of the Sian Incident of 1936 from the northern bureau. See also: Oversize Material,
number 9.
box 18, folder 57
Federation of National Salvation Associations of the Northeasterners (Peiping)
undated
Northwestern National Salvation Association
box 18, folder 59
Hsüan ch'üan pu, Wei yung hu Chang Yang liang chiang chün chiu kuo chu chang hsüan yen
undated
Scope and Contents note
Statement to support the assertion of national salvation by General Chang and General Yang.
box 18, folder 60
Hsüan ch'uan pu, üI erh i erhü chi nien hsüan ch'uan ta kang
undated
Scope and Contents note
Outline of the publicity work in commemoration of "One-two, One-two." See also: Oversize Material, number 10.
box 18, folder 61
Kao ko tang ko p'ai shu,
undated
Scope and Contents
Letter to all parties and factions. See also: Oversize Material, number 11.
CHINESE COMMUNISTS
1936-1945, 1961
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, writings, interviews, articles, and news clippings by and about Chinese communists. Most of the material was
written and collected by Nym Wales during her stay with Chinese communist leaders in Yenan in 1937. Part of the material found
in this series was used to write Wales'
Inside Red China,
The Chinese Communists: Sketches and Autobiographies of the Old Guard, a reprint of
Red Dust, and
Women in Modern China. A guide to the material, prepared by Nym Wales, appears at the beginning of the series.
box 19, folder 1
"My Yenan Notebooks,"
1961
Scope and Contents note
Mimeograph prepared by Nym Wales as a guide to the use of the material found in this series. The appendix contains a nearly
complete bibliography of her works, a resume, and selected passages from articles and book reviews about her life and literary
works.
box 20, folder 1
Correspondence between Nym Wales and Edgar Snow
1937-1939
Scope and Contents note
Both Snow and Wales use a variety of pseudonyms to sign and address each other in these letters. Arranged chronologically.
Writings
1937-1939
Arrangement
Arranged by literary form.
Diaries and notebooks
1937-1938
box 20, folder 3
Number 2
1937 May 16-June 15
box 20, folder 4
Number 3
1937 May 12
Scope and Contents note
Includes an autograph of Hsiao K'eh.
box 20, folder 10
Number 9
1937 August 14-15
box 20, folder 11
Number 10,
1937 June 10-21
box 20, folder 12
Number 11
1937 June 13-16
box 20, folder 13
Number 12
1937 June 22-29
box 20, folder 14
Number 13,
1937 July 3-14
box 20, folder 18
Number 17
1937 April 21-May 5
box 21, folder 1
Number 18
1937 April 22-May 28
Scope and Contents note
Includes three letters from Nym Wales to Edgar Snow.
box 21, folder 2
Number 19
1937 September 1
box 21, folder 5
Unnumbered
1937 August
Scope and Contents note
Contains an interview with Mao Tse-tung on negotiations with the Nanking government and the war with Japan.
box 21, folder 6
Unnumbered
1937 August 18
Scope and Contents note
Contains an interview with Tung Pi-wu.
box 21, folder 7
Unnumbered
1937 August 19
Scope and Contents note
Contains an interview with Chang Wen-ping.
box 21, folder 8
Unnumbered
1937 September-October
Scope and Contents note
Includes two letters from Nym Wales to Edgar Snow.
box 21, folder 13
Inside Red China, carbon copy of typescript draft
Scope and Contents note
Includes unpublished material.
Articles, essays, and compilations
1937, undated
box 21, folder 14
"The Passing of the Chinese Soviets," carbon copy of typescript draft
1937 August
box 21, folder 15
"Who's Who in Communist China," carbon copy of typescript draft
undated
box 21, folder 16
Biographical profiles of Chinese communist leaders, typescript and carbon copies of drafts with annotations
undated
box 21, folder 17
Lists of Chinese communist leaders according to place of origin, education, and socio-economic background
undated
box 21, folder 18
List of Chinese communist political leaders killed or expelled since 1927
undated
box 21, folder 19
List of thirty women who took part in the Long March, typescript
undated
box 21, folder 20
Chou, En-lai, typewritten transcript
1937 June 22
Scope and Contents note
Also includes a revised carbon copy.
box 21, folder 21
Mao, Tse-tung, typewritten transcript
1937 August 13
box 21, folder 22
Wu, Liang P'ing, typewritten transcript
1937 August 8
Note
Transcript was censored by Mao Tse-tung.
Collected writings
1934-1944
box 22, folder 1
Bertram, James, interview with Mao Tse-tung, carbon copy of typewritten transcript
1937 October 25
box 22, folder 2
Chen, Tu-shiu, "Money or Service from Everyone!," mimeograph
1938 January
box 22, folder 3-11
Chu hsi pei pan shih ch'u (Northwest Office of the Chinese Soviet Republic)
1935-1936, undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains eight documents. Topics include: instructions for grain saving, methods for handling table salt and cloth in order
to consolidate finances in the region, problems of summer cultivation and winter harvest, the development of animal husbandry
and the protection of ewes, the distribution of land certificates, the organization of labor cooperatives, economic policy,
and public finances. See also: Oversize Material, numbers 12-17.
box 22, folder 12-13
Kuo-min ching-chi pu (Ministry of Finance)
1936
Scope and Contents note
Contains two mimeographs, including a notice concerning recent problems in the work organization of the cooperatives and a
notice concerning the transportation of table salt.
box 22, folder 14
Shen pei sheng ko hsien lao tung hu chu she chi fu nü hsüeh hsi sheng chan tsu ti tsu shu jen shu ho chung tzu chi mien tzu
ti fen p'ei piao
1936
Scope and Contents note
Statistics concerning agricultural cooperative groups in Shenpei province.
box 22, folder 15
Shen pai sheng Su yenan teng ch'i hsien jen k'ao tiao ch'a t'ung chi i lan piao
1936
Scope and Contents note
Population statistics from Shenpei province.
box 22, folder 16
Ts'ai-cheng pu, Chan-hsing chin-k'u tiao-li, mimeograph
1936
Scope and Contents note
Contains information about treasury regulations.
box 22, folder 17-18
Chou, En-lai
1938, undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains a mimeograph entitled, "How to Carry on a Protracted War," written in February of 1938 and an undated carbon copy
of a typescript entitled, "On the People's Congress."
box 22, folder 19
Chu, Teh, Chung-kuo king nung hung chun, Hung chün tsung ssu ling pu ming ling
1935 November
Scope and Contents note
A proclamation from the headquarters of the Red Army encouraging Nationalist army personnel to defect. See also: Oversize
Material, number 18.
Chung-kuo kung ch'an tang (Communist Party of China)
box 22, folder 20
Chung yang wei yüan hui, Chung kuo kung ch'an tang chih chung-kuo kuo min tang shu
1936 August
Scope and Contents note
A letter from the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Kuomintang concerning the United Front against Japan. Includes
a mimeograph with an English translation attached.
box 22, folder 21
Chung yang wei yüan hui, Chung yang kuan yü t'u ti cheng tse ti chih shih
1936
Scope and Contents note
A notice from the Central Committee concerning land policy.
box 22, folder 22
Hsi pei chung yang ch'u. Kuan yu chih hsing kai pein fu nung tse lueh chi ko chi kung ch'an tang yu su wei ai ti chih shih
1936
Scope and Contents note
A handwritten notice from the Northwest Bureau of the Communist Party concerning the transportation of rich peasants.
box 22, folder 23-24
Chung-kuo kung nung hung chün
undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains the first page of a manuscript in Chinese (with English translation) titled, "History of the Growth of the Red Army,
193-," which discusses the time period from Wu-Han to Ching Kan Shan. Also included is a handwritten list of battles from
the headquarters of the First Chinese Worker and Peasant Red Army in Chinese. See also: Oversize Material, numbers 19 and
20.
box 22, folder 25
"Fundamental Problems of the Chinese Revolution," lecture series notes
undated
box 23, folder 1
Hearn, Laurence, book review of Edgar Snow's
Red Star Over China, typescript
undated
box 23, folder 2
Hsüeh-feng and Hsiao-p'eng, Lou-shan kuan ch'ien hou
1935
Scope and Contents note
Contains handwritten personal narratives of the events before and after the capture of Loushan pass. Also includes a typescript
English translation.
box 23, folder 3
Hsiao, Hua, Kuo ch'ü ti wo (I Was)
1936
Scope and Contents note
Biography of a Communist Party member. See also: Oversize Material, number 21.
box 23, folder 4
I chiu san san Chung-kuo ching chi wei chi ti chien jui hua
1930s
Scope and Contents note
Carbon copy of handwritten manuscript which discusses critical economic conditions in China based on a statistical survey
by a Communist economist.
box 23, folder 5
I chün t'uan wen-fang chan tou
1934
Scope and Contents note
Carbon copy of handwritten manuscript discussing the battle of Wen-fang. Includes a typescript English translation.
box 23, folder 6
Lin, Tzu-han, report to the Border Region People's Congress, mimeograph
undated
box 23, folder 7
Appeal to Chinese Muslims for support, mimeograph in Arabic
1936
box 23, folder 8
"Democracy and Revolution" or "The Obligation of the Chinese Anti-Japanese National United Front at the Present Stage," typescript
1937 April 1
box 23, folder 9
"Mission of the Chinese Revolution after the Reunion of the Chinese Communist Party and Kuomintang," mimeograph
1937 November
box 23, folder 10
Speech abstract delivered before the Northwest Youth Salvation Representatives Congress, carbon copy of typescript in English
1937 April 12
box 23, folder 11
Mao Tse-tung kuan yü t'ing chan k'ang Jih chih t'an hua, mimeograph
circa 1930
Scope and Contents note
Contains talks by Mao concerning the ceasefire of the civil war and the fight against Japan.
box 23, folder 12
"North China Unconquered," by C. P. (?), typescript with carbon copy
1943 June
box 23, folder 13
Pang, Teh hwei, "Conditions of Our Ultimate Victory in the Protracted War," mimeograph
1937 December
box 23, folder 14
"Reconstruction in Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region," carbon copy of typewritten transcript of editorials and letters
1942 June
box 23, folder 15
Report on the activities of the Red Armies, carbon copy of typescript
1936 December
box 23, folder 16
"Report on the Central Hopei People's Self Defense Armies and the Political Organization Which They Are Fostering,"
1938 March
box 23, folder 17
Shen-pei kung ch'an tang fa chan ti kai k'ang, carbon copy of manuscript
1937
Scope and Contents note
A report on the development of the Communist Party in Northern Shensi.
box 23, folder 18
Shih-Ming, "Theory and Task of the New Political Stage--Summarized from the 'New Stage' written by Mao Tse-tung," carbon copy
of typescript
undated
box 23, folder 19
Interview (partial) with Chou En-lai, carbon copy of typescript transcript
1943-1944
box 23, folder 20
Notes on the organization and activities of the Chinese Red Army, handwritten and typescript
undated
box 23, folder 21
"The Reds and the Northwest,"
1937
Scope and Contents note
This article was read before the Men's Forum of the Peking Union Church and then published in the
Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury in February of 1937. Includes a carbon copy of a typewritten transcript and printed copies.
box 23, folder 22
"Will China Become a Russian Satellite?,"
Saturday Evening Post
undated
box 23, folder 23
"Ten Years of the Red Army," handwritten translation
undated
box 23, folder 24
Wen, Pin and Hsu, Meng-ch'iu, T'sung Hsi-ch'ang pa tzu tao An-shun ch'ang
1936
Scope and Contents note
Contains Long March personal narratives.
box 23, folder 25
Yang, Te-chih, Chiang wo ti li shih hsieh tsai hsia mien
circa 1936
Scope and Contents note
A handwritten autobiography of Yang Te-chih.
box 23, folder 26
Magazine and journal articles
1930s-1940s
box 23, folder 28
Book marks with portraits of Chinese Communist leaders and writers
1937
CHINESE LITERATURE
1934-1937
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, writings, biographical material, and printed matter written and collected by Nym Wales and Edgar Snow in connection
with a writing project concerning Chinese literature during the 1920s and 1930s. Some of the material in this series appeared
in
Living China (1937), edited by Edgar Snow with an essay by Nym Wales.
Correspondence of Nym Wales and Edgar Snow
1934-1937
box 24, folder 1
Bennett, James W.
circa 1937
box 24, folder 6
Herz, Henriette
1936-1937
box 24, folder 7
Hsiao, Ch'ien
circa 1936-1937
box 24, folder 8
Hsu, S. S. (Lu Hsun Memorial Committee)
1937
box 24, folder 18
Yang, Ping
circa 1936-1937
Writings
1936-1937
undated
Arrangement
Arranged by literary form and then chronologically.
box 24, folder 22
"The Modern Chinese Literary Movement,"
1936 June
Scope and Contents note
Contains typescript and carbon copy drafts, outlines, and a printed copy of the essay which was published in
Living China.
box 24, folder 23
Bibliography for
Living China, carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 24, folder 24
"The New Literature of 'Living China'," typescript
1936
box 24, folder 25
"Literature and Revolution in China," carbon copy of typescript
1937 February 9
box 24, folder 26
"Salute to Lu Shun," co-authored and edited by Edgar Snow, typescript with carbon copy
1937 February 9
Note
Written for
Democracy magazine.
box 24, folder 27
"The Chinese Short Story," typescript
undated
box 24, folder 28
"Artists in Arms," carbon copy of typescript
undated
box 24, folder 30
Notes
undated
Scope and Contents note
Also includes manuscript fragments and outlines.
box 24, folder 31
Book review of
Living China,
undated
Collected correspondence
1935-1937
box 25, folder 1
China League of Left Writers
1935 March 11
box 25, folder 2
Franklin, Cecil
1937 April 27
box 25, folder 3
Leiper, Maria (Simon and Schuster, Inc.)
1937 October 11
box 25, folder 4
Postgate, Raymond
undated
Collected writings
1930-1945, undated
Scope and Contents
Comprised of short stories, plays, poems, autobiographical sketches, and articles.
box 25, folder 7
Buck, Pearl S.
1930-circa 1931
box 25, folder 19
Howard, Harry Paxton
undated
box 25, folder 21
Hsiao, Hung
1941, undated
box 25, folder 32
League of Left Writers of China
1935
box 26, folder 1
Lu, Hsün
1935
undated
Note
Also known as Lu Sin, Lu Hsun, and Chou Shu-jen.
box 26, folder 9
Shih, Ming (Yang Ping)
undated
box 26, folder 11-13
Snow, Edgar
1937, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes a draft of the introduction to
Living China " with biographical sketches of Chinese authors from 1937. Also included is an undated draft of an introduction to an unidentified
work on Lu Shun, and an undated interview with Lu Shun.
box 26, folder 16
T'ien, Chun (Hsiao Chun)
undated
box 26, folder 22
Wells, Laura Preston
1930
box 27, folder 5
Miscellaneous poems
1936-1938, undated
box 27, folder 6
Miscellaneous short stories
1935, undated
Biographical material
1933-1937
undated
box 27, folder 9
Hsiao, Ch'ien
1937 January 30
box 27, folder 10
Hsiao, Hung (Chang Nai-ying)
undated
box 27, folder 22
List of Chinese writers killed or imprisoned in the 1920s-1930s
undated
Scope and Contents note
Prepared by Mao Tun.
box 27, folder 23
List of the board of directors of the Chinese National Writers and Artists Association
undated
box 27, folder 24
Miscellaneous notes and clippings
1934-1936, undated
CHINESE ART
1932-1936, 1960
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, writings, and biographical material collected by Nym Wales during her encounter with "left-wing" painters
and poets during the early 1930s. A guide to the material, prepared by Nym Wales, appears at the beginning of the series.
box 28, folder 1
"Notes on Left-Wing Painters and Modern Art in China," mimeograph
1960
Scope and Contents note
A guide to the material found in this series created by Nym Wales.
Correspondence
1934-1936
undated
box 28, folder 4
Herz, Henriette
1935-1936
box 28, folder 7
Walsh, Richard J.
1935-1936
box 28, folder 11
Miscellaneous and unidentified
undated
Writings
1932-1935
undated
Arrangement
Arranged by literary form and then chronologically.
box 28, folder 12
"An Exhibition of Paintings of Liu Hai-Sou,"
China Critic
1932 November 3
box 28, folder 13
"Revolutionary Art in China," carbon copy of typescript
1935
box 28, folder 14
"Chinese Artists Turn to the Masses," carbon copy of transcript
1935
Note
Published as "China's New Art" in
Asia, July 1935.
box 28, folder 15
"Revolution in China's Art," typescript draft
undated
box 28, folder 16
Notes on left-wing painters and poets
undated
Collected writings
1934-1936
undated
box 28, folder 17-18
Wang, Chün-chü
1934-1935
Scope and Contents note
Contains copies of "The Four Gentlemen of China," published in
Asia in December of 1935. It was edited with an introduction by Nym Wales. Also included in this file is a handwritten copy of
"Present Day China's Art" in Chinese with a typewritten English translation. Authorship of this work is not certain.
box 28, folder 19
Translations of "Left-Wing" poetry
circa 1934-1936
box 28, folder 20
Translations of communications by Association des Ecrivains et Artistes Revolutionaires and Andre Viollis
undated
box 28, folder 21-22
Biographical material
undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains material on Liu Hai-Sou and Wang Chün-chü.
box 28, folder 23
Miscellaneous printed material
undated
GENERAL SUBJECT FILE
1931-1961
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, writings, reports, memoranda, charts, maps, circulars, clippings, posters, and other printed matter dealing
for the most part with the Far East, especially China. Arranged alphabetically by subject or issuing organization.
box 29, folder 1
American Brotherhood for Cooperative Democracy
undated
box 29, folder 2
American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression
1940, undated
box 29, folder 3-4
American Labour Fund for Aid to China, Board of Custody
1943, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes a typescript draft of a memorandum on the use of American labor funds in China written by Nym Wales and other general
material regarding the organization.
box 29, folder 5
Americans in Shanghai
undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains an evacuation plan.
box 29, folder 6
Anglo-Russian relations
undated
box 29, folder 7
Baguio, Philippine Islands
1937
Scope and Contents note
Contains a directory and visitor's guide.
box 29, folder 8
Bertram, James
1940
Scope and Contents note
Contains biographical material.
box 29, folder 9
Bethune, Norman,
1940, undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains biographical material.
box 29, folder 11-12
General
1931-1936, undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains news clippings as well as magazine and journal articles.
box 29, folder 14
Constitutions
1936
Scope and Contents note
Contains a draft of a constitution beginning, "Chung-hua min kuo hsien fa ts'ao an."
box 29, folder 15
Description and travel
undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains a carbon copy of a typescript draft of "Christmas in a Chinese Temple" by Nym Wales.
box 29, folder 16-17
Economic conditions
193-1942, undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains a general file as well as a handwritten manuscript in Chinese from the Kuomintang Financial Convention in Nanking.
The opening lines of the manuscript translate to "Again some arbitrary propaganda..."
box 29, folder 18
Famines
1934
Scope and Contents note
Carbon copy of manuscript in Chinese that translates to "Problems of famine in China."
box 29, folder 20-22
Civil War
circa 1943-1945, undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains a general file on the civil war of 1945-1949 as well as typescripts of "Who Will Win the Civil War in China?" by
Michael Lindsay and "The Question of Civil War in China" by Nym Wales.
box 29, folder 23-24
Industries
1938, 1946
Scope and Contents note
Includes a general file as well as copies of "The Genius of China as seen in the Unit" written by Rewi Alley in August 1946.
box 30, folder 2-5
Politics and government
1935-1944, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes a general file, a copy of "China Needs True Democracy" (1943) by Chang Lan, a copy of "Freedom of Thought and the
Ordinary Rule of Running a Government" by an unidentified author, and a list of "hsiens" in Hunan with a note from T. K. Wong
to Edgar Snow.
box 30, folder 6
Price and wage indexes
1943
box 30, folder 7
Theater and the arts
1933, undated
box 30, folder 8
Women
1938, undated
Scope and Contents note
Material focuses on women's role in society and the state.
box 30, folder 9
China Aid Council
undated
box 30, folder 11-12
China Defense League
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes a general file and posters.
box 30, folder 13
Chinese Association of Labor
undated
box 30, folder 14
Chinese in New Zealand
1938
Scope and Contents note
Contains an article by G. T. and Rewi Alley.
box 30, folder 15
Chinese in the Pacific (Fiji to Hawaii)
1938
Scope and Contents note
Includes an article by Rewi Alley.
box 30, folder 16
Chinese (language)
1937
Scope and Contents note
Includes a handwritten article in Chinese translated as "The New Chinese Character Movement in Northern China."
box 30, folder 17
Chinese Journalists Association
1936
box 30, folder 18
Chinese students abroad
1943
box 30, folder 19
Citizens Committee to Repeal Chinese Exclusion and Place Immigration on a Quota Basis
undated
box 30, folder 20
Citizens Committee to Welcome Madame Chiang Kai-shek
undated
box 30, folder 21
Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy
1946-1948
box 30, folder 22
Committee for a Democratic Policy toward China
1945
box 30, folder 23-26
Confucianism
1930s
Scope and Contents note
Includes a general file, notes on the Confucian revival in China by Edgar Snow, and two drafts of articles by Nym Wales: "Back
to California" and "New Life in Old China."
box 30, folder 27-28
Democracy magazine
1937, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence as well as project material with writings by Nym Wales and Edgar Snow.
box 30, folder 29
Donald, William Henry
1938
Scope and Contents note
Contains biographical material.
box 31, folder 1
East and West Association
1942
box 31, folder 2-3
Education - China
1932-1934, undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains a general file as well as an outline discussing education in times of emergency from the Peiping Cultural Circles
National Salvation Group.
box 31, folder 6
China (Blue Shirt Society)
1934-1936, undated
box 31, folder 7
Snow, Edgar, "The Meaning of Fascism,"
Peiping Chronicle
1935 January 9
box 31, folder 10
"Fascist Development in China,"
box 31, folder 11
"The Fascist Movement in China,"
box 31, folder 12
"Kuomintang China: A Study in Colonial 'Sub-Fascism,'"
box 31, folder 13
Miscellaneous notes and drafts
box 31, folder 14-15
Flood Relief-China
1931-1932
Scope and Contents note
Contains a National Flood Relief Commission file and an article by Edgar Snow titled, "In The Wake of China's Flood," published
in the
New York Herald Tribune, December 6th, 1931.
box 31, folder 17
German interests in China
undated
box 31, folder 20
Hahn, Emily
1939-1940
Scope and Contents note
Contains biographical material.
box 31, folder 21
Hogg, George Aylwin
1942 December
Scope and Contents note
Contains biographical material and a typescript by Nym Wales titled, "About George Aylwin Hogg."
box 76, folder 2-3
Philippines
1940
Scope and Contents note
Includes articles on 20th century history of the Philippines, correspondence regarding industrial cooperatives there, and
an address by Benito Razon at the Ateneo de Manila on July 24th, 1940.
box 31, folder 23-30
Korea
1939-1961
Scope and Contents note
Includes a general file, a typescript by Changsoon Kim, and several writings by Nym Wales including, "Korea--America's Forgotten
Ally," "Korea Is to Be Free and Independent," "Notes on Korea and the Life of Kim San," and "Rebel Korea." Also contains notes
by Wales and a revision of an article for
Britannica Junior.
box 31, folder 31
Labouring Mutual Aid Society
undated
box 31, folder 32-33
Literary criticism and book reviews
1932-1941
Scope and Contents note
Includes a general file as well as a piece by Nym Wales in the column "Dissenting Opinions" from the
Saturday Review of Literature on January 31, 1942.
box 32, folder 1-3
Manchuria
1933-1936, undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains files on banditry, description and travel, and politics and government. Also included is an organizational chart
of the Manchoukuo government.
box 32, folder 4
Mitford Chemical Works
undated
box 32, folder 7
National War Fund
undated
box 32, folder 8
New China Information Committee
1938
box 32, folder 9-10
New Life Movement
1934-1939
Scope and Contents note
Contains a general file and an article by Randall Gould titled, "A Foreigner Looks at the New Life Movement," published in
Tien Hsia Monthly in November 1936.
box 32, folder 11
Old China Hands
1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes a roster.
box 32, folder 13
Philippine Civic League
undated
box 32, folder 14
Philippine Islands
1932-1940
box 32, folder 15
Refugees and war relief - China
1938-1944, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes material on International Peace Hospitals.
box 32, folder 16-19
Shanghai
1931-1936, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes a general file, maps and descriptions, the 1934-1936 annual report for the Shanghai Municipal Council, and a reprint
of an article about the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo railroad by Edgar Snow and S. Y. Livingston titled, "Hangchow and Beyond."
box 33, folder 1
Soong family
1943
Scope and Contents note
Includes biographical material.
box 33, folder 2
Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact
1944, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes a draft of an article by Nym Wales titled, "The Soviet-Japanese Pact and the Far East."
box 33, folder 3
Teheran conference
undated
box 33, folder 4
United Peace Alliance
1938
box 33, folder 6-7
Japan
1940, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes a general file and "Must We Beat Japan First?" by Edgar Snow, which was published in
Saturday Evening Post on October 24, 1942.
box 33, folder 8
Philippine Islands
undated
box 33, folder 9
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1933-1936
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE OF NYM WALES AND EDGAR SNOW
1935-1954
Scope and Contents note
Contains miscellaneous correspondence, arranged alphabetically by correspondent or organization.
box 34, folder 1
Araneta, Salvador (Philippine Civic League)
1940
box 34, folder 2
Changsoon, Kim (Korean American Cultural Association)
1942-1943
box 34, folder 4
Fortune Magazine (William D. Gear)
1942
box 34, folder 8
Herz, Henriette
1935-1944
box 34, folder 10
Joy, Charles R. (Unitarian Service Committee)
1944
box 34, folder 11
Ladies Home Journal (Helen Schofield Luckas)
1954
box 34, folder 12
Lapwood, E. Ralph and Nancy (via the American Friends Service Committee)
1951
box 34, folder 16
London
Daily Herald (Francis Williams)
1937
box 34, folder 17
National City Bank (Peiping)
1937
box 34, folder 18
Petrova, A.
1942
Note
Petrova was secretary to the ambassador at the Embassy of the USSR in Washington, D. C.
box 34, folder 21
Sun, Madame Yat-sen (Soong Ching Ling, China Defense League)
1939
box 34, folder 23
William, Maurice (Sun Yat-Sen Day Project)
1944
box 34, folder 24
Worcester, Elizabeth
1940
box 34, folder 25
Miscellaneous and unidentified
1935-1944
MISCELLANY
undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains miscellaneous printed matter and stencils of the guides to the collection prepared by Nym Wales.
box 34, folder 26, 30
Greeting cards, calling cards, shopping lists, menus, receipts, and notes
box 34, folder 27-29
Notebooks on the Silesian Loan Question (1735-1756)
Scope and Contents note
Contains three notebooks.
box 35
"Notes on the Beginnings of the Industrial Cooperatives"
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The typescripts created from these stencils are available in Box
1, Folder 1-3 ("Notes on the Beginnings of the Industrial Cooperatives in China," 1958)
box 36
"Notes on the Chinese Student Movement, 1935-1937"
Access
Box 36 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The typescripts created from these stencils are available in Box
11, Folder 1-2 ("Notes on the Chinese Student Movement, 1935-1936")
box 37
"Notes on the Sian Incident, 1936"
Access
Box 37 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The typescripts created from these stencils are available in Box
17, Folder 1-2 ("Notes on the Sian Incident, 1936")
PHOTOGRAPHS
1930-1987
1930-1987
Scope and Contents note
Contains photographs, negatives, slides, and albums depicting Nym Wales, Chinese communist leaders, INDUSCO (Chinese Industrial
Cooperative) activities, and other events related to the communist movement in China during the 1930s and 1940s. Also includes
typewritten notes about the photographs, located in envelope A, copper printing plates, and photo postcards.
box 67, folder 1
A: Typewritten notes concerning the photos in the collection
undated
Note
Most of the notes are in the form of captions for particular photos; however, they should be used with caution as there are
certain inconsistencies.
box 67, folder 2
B: 4 photos and 1 photocopy of Helen Foster Snow (Nym Wales)
1930s-1954
box 67, folder 3
C: 4 photos of Ida Pruitt at various INDUSCO (Chinese Industrial Cooperative) centers
late 1930s-early 1940s
box 67, folder 4
D: 13 photos of Rewi Alley at various INDUSCO centers
late 1930s-early 1940s
box 67, folder 5
E: 1 photo of Edgar Snow and O.J. Todd, Head of Famine Relief in China, and 1 photo of Edgar Snow with the Headquarters Company
of the First Front Red Army
1931-1937
box 67, folder 6
F: 2 photos and 2 copyprints of Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai), 5 photos of Chu Teh (Zhu De), and 1 photo of Lin Piao (Lin Biao)
1937
undated
box 67, folder 7
G: 12 photographs of Mao Tse-tung and others
1930s
Scope and Contents note
Others pictured include: Chu Teh, Agnes Smedley, Hsiao Hua, Yeh Chien-ying, Ho Tzu-chien, Po Ku, and Chou En-lai. Also contains
the first images taken of Kuomintang and communist cooperation in China.
Separated Materials
In addition, four other original photographs of Mao Tse-tung were removed from Envelope G and moved to Box OCM12. These include
2 portraits of Mao Tse-tung circa 1936-1937, 1 group photo of Red Army veterans circa 1936, and 1 photo of Po Ku, Chou En-lai,
Chu Teh, and Mao Tse-tung circa 1930. Photocopies of these four photographs are available in Box 67.
box OCM12
G: Portraits of Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, and Red Army veterans
1930-1937
Access
Box OCM12 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
Scope and Contents
2 portraits of Mao Tse-tung circa 1936-1937, 1 group photo of Red Army veterans circa 1936, and 1 photo of Po Ku, Chou En-lai,
Chu Teh, and Mao Tse-tung circa 1930. Photographs were originally found in Envelope G.
box 67, folder 8-9
H: 36 portraits of Red Army leaders and others
1936-1937
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of Chu Pui-teh, Feng Yu-hsiang (Feng Yuxiang), Wang Chen, Li Ming, H.S. "Newsreel" Wong, Chang Yen-ching (Zhang
Yanqing), Hsiao Chin-kuang (Xiao Jinguang or Man Ge), Fang Wen-ping (Fang Wenbing), Li Hsien-chen (Li Xianzhen), Lo Chen-yu
(Luo Zhenyu), Wang Liang, Ting Chien-hsiu (Ding Jianxiu), Hsiao K'eh (Xiao Ke), Han Ying (or Xiang Yin), Tso Chuan (Zuo Quan
or Zuo Shuren), Chiang Ming (Kim San, real name Chiang Chi-rak), Chang Chao-lin (Zhang Zhaolin), Chang Wen-ping (Zhang Wenbing),
Ho Lung (He Long), David Yui (Yu Ch'i-wei), Li Fu Ch'un (Li Fuchun), Hsu Hai-tung (Xu Haidong), Hsu Hsiang-chien (Xu Xiangqian),
Ch'en Ming-hsu (Chen Mingshu), H.H. Chen, Chiang Kai-shek, P'eng Teh-huai (Peng Dehuai), Seo Kiu-leung, Fu Chiu Kuei (Fu Jiukuai),
Lin Yutang, Jimmy Yen (Yan Yangchu), and Hsu Hai-tung (Xu Haidong).
box 67, folder 10
I: Group photographs of Red Army leaders and various other communist groups
1934-1937
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs of Liu Zhi, Xiao Ke, He Long, Lin Piao (Lin Biao), Zhu De, Fang Wenbing, Sun Renjiong, Wang Zhen, Shao
Kuei, leaders of the 8th Route Army, delegation from the Nanjing Government, the Chinese Second Soviet Congress held February
3, 1934, the Red Army Youth Group, the Northwest Youth Group, and the Guomindang Delegation.
box 68, folder 1-2
J: Scenes of the Red Army and Chinese Communist areas
1936-1937
Scope and Contents note
The original Envelope J contained approximately 188 photographs. The envelope has been divided into several smaller envelopes.
box 68, folder 3
J I: Scenes of the Red Army and Chinese Communist areas
1936-1937
box 68, folder 4
J II: Scenes of the Red Army and Chinese Communist areas
1936-1937
box 68, folder 5
mJ III: Scenes of the Red Army and Chinese Communist areas
1936-1937
box 68, folder 6
mJ IV: Scenes of the Red Army and Chinese Communist areas
1936-1937
box 68, folder 7
mJ V: Scenes of the Red Army and Chinese Communist areas
1936-1937
box 68, folder 8
mJ VI: Scenes of the Red Army and Chinese Communist areas
1936-1937
box 69, folder 1
mJ VII: Scenes of the Red Army and Chinese Communist areas
1936-1937
box 69, folder 2-4
K: Student demonstrations
1935-1936
Scope and Contents note
Envelopes K and K I contain approximately 187 photographs.
box 69, folder 5
K I: Student demonstrations
1935-1936
Scope and Contents
Envelopes K and K I contain approximately 187 photographs.
box 69, folder 6
L: 11 photos of the student movement
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of the 29th Route Army at Ching Lungshan (Jinglongshan) with student marchers, Constance Chang, Wang Ju-mei
(Huang Hua), H.S. "Newsreel" Wong, Frank Smothers, Liu Tsui (Liu Cui), and Kuo Wei-hung (Guo Weihong).
box 69, folder 7
M: Photographs taken by James Bertram of the Sian Incident and the Red Army
circa 1936
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of the 8th Route Army and mass meetings. Approximately 57 photographs total.
box 69, folder 8
N: INDUSCO activities
late 1930s
1940s
Scope and Contents note
Envelopes N-S contain approximately 534 photographs. Also includes 7 postcards located in Envelope Q. Photographs in Envelope
S taken by George Hogg.
box 70, folder 1-2
N: INDUSCO activities
late 1930s
1940s
Scope and Contents
Envelopes N-S contain approximately 534 photographs.
box 70, folder 3-5
O: INDUSCO activities
late 1930s, 1940s
Scope and Contents
Envelopes N-S contain approximately 534 photographs. Also includes 7 postcards located in Envelope Q. Photographs in Envelope
S taken by George Hogg.
box 71, folder 1-2
P: INDUSCO activities
late 1930s
1940s
Scope and Contents note
Envelopes N-S contain approximately 534 photographs. Also includes 7 postcards located in Envelope Q. Photographs in Envelope
S taken by George Hogg.
box 71, folder 3
Q: INDUSCO activities
late 1930s, 1940s
Scope and Contents
Envelopes N-S contain approximately 534 photographs. Also includes 7 postcards located in Envelope Q. Photographs in Envelope
S taken by George Hogg.
box 71, folder 4-5
R: INDUSCO activities
late 1930s, 1940s
Scope and Contents
Envelopes N-S contain approximately 534 photographs. Also includes 7 postcards located in Envelope Q. Photographs in Envelope
S taken by George Hogg.
box 71, folder 6
S: INDUSCO activities
late 1930s
1940s
Scope and Contents note
Envelopes N-S contain approximately 534 photographs. Also includes 7 postcards located in Envelope Q. Photographs in Envelope
S taken by George Hogg.
box 71, folder 7
T: 15 photos of INDUSCO activities in the Philippines
early 1940s
box 71, folder 8
U: Paintings by "left-wing" painters of Peking
1930s
Scope and Contents note
Includes 20 photographs, 4 photo postcards, and 9 printed copies of photographs.
box 71, folder 9
V: Art works of Wang Chun-chu (Wang Junchu)
early 1930s
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs, negatives, and photo postcards of the artist's work.
box 71, folder 10
W: 4 photographic prints of charcoal drawings by Wang Chun-chu (Wang Junchu)
undated
Scope and Contents note
Also includes a magazine clipping and a note written by Nym Wales about the drawings.
box 71, folder 11
Y: Chinese writers and artists
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of Liu Hai-Sou (Liu Haisu), Wang Chun-chu (Wang Junchu or Hu Man), Hsiao Ai-mi, Ting Ling (Ding Ling, originally
Jian Bingzhi), and Mei Lan, also known by his stage name as Mei Lan Fong (Mai Laifang). Includes images of Mei Lan dressed
as both himself and as his female stage persona.
box 72, folder 1
Z: 15 photos of activities involving the Korean Village of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and the Central Normal College of Seoul,
South Korea
1937
undated
Scope and Contents note
Also includes images of Louise Yim Hahn and Soon Kyo Hahn.
box 72, folder 2-3
AA: Chinese scenes and other items
undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains various images taken in China, including Chinese student movement demonstrations in Beijing, INDUSCO activities,
and Red Army photographs. Envelope AA also includes Japanese photos of Manchuria and Mongolia, photos of an exhibit of Chinese
art in the Philippines, handwritten notes, bookplates, and 4 copper printing plates with etchings of Mao Tse-tung and Chu
Teh. Envelope AE includes photographs primarily from Edgar Snow's 1939 trip to Yan'an (Yenan) and surrounding communist areas.
Envelope mAB located in oversize photo file. Approximately 214 photographs total.
box 72, folder 4
mAB: Chinese scenes and other items
undated
box 72, folder 5
AC: Chinese scenes and other items
undated
box 72, folder 6
AD: Chinese scenes and other items
undated
box 72, folder 7
AE: Chinese scenes and other items
undated
box 72, folder 8
AF: Red Army and Chinese Communist members
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of the Red Army artillery unit, Beijing student demonstrations, Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai), Red University Army
group, Mao Tse-tung, Ho Tzu-chien (He Zizhen), Rewi Alley, Chu Teh (Zhu De), Chiang Kai-shek, Hsiao K'o (Xiao Ke), Hsu Hai-tung
(Xu Haidong), Peng Dehuai, and unidentified persons.
box 72, folder 9
AG: 6 photos of Nym Wales
1985-1986
Scope and Contents note
Includes 2 images with An Wei.
box 72, folder 10
AH: 1 photo Nym Wales with Fu-shih Wang
1986
Scope and Contents note
Also includes an excerpt from Chapter 22 of
My China Years describing how Wales and Wang met.
box 72, folder 11
AI: 80th birthday and exhibit
1987
Scope and Contents note
Contains 2 photographs of Nym Wales on her 80th birthday and 2 photographs of the "Helen Snow in China" exhibit held in Xi'an,
China.
box fAJ
fAJ: 3 albums titled XIAN, CHINA
1987
Scope and Contents note
3 small albums containing images of the "Helen Snow in China" exhibit held in Xi'an, China.
slide cabinet
Slides
undated
Scope and Contents note
23 slides depicting the charcoal sketches listed in the Art series by Wang Junchu (Wang Chün Ch'u), also known as Meng Tou
and Li Zo.
OVERSIZE MATERIAL
1926-1937
Library bound manuscripts
1926-1937
Note
These items were originally transferred to the Hoover Institution Library at the time of acquisition, where they were bound
and assigned a number. They are referenced elsewhere in the finding aid under the appropriate subject series.
box 42
1. "一九三四年白区工人斗争统计 (Yijiusansi nian baiqu gongren douzheng tongji)"
1934
Note
English translation: "Statistics Regarding the Worker's Struggle in White Areas"
box 42
2. "北平市全体学生示威宣言 (Beipingshi quanti xuesheng shiwei xuanyan)"
1936 December 12
Note
English translation: "Manifesto of the Beiping Student Demonstrations"
box 42
3. "我们的呼吁 (Women de huyu)," 北平市学生救国联合会者 (Beipingshi xuesheng jiuguo lianhehuizhe)
1926
Note
English translation: "Our Appeal," Beiping Student's Federation for the Salvation of the Nation
box 42
4. "上蒋委员长及三中全会书 (Shang Jiang Weiyuan changji sanzhongquanhui shu)"
1937
Note
English translation: "Document Regarding Chiang Kai-Shek Committee Third Plenum"
box 73
5. "什么叫做《秘密外交?》 (Shenme jiaozuo 'Mimi waijiao?')," 天津学生扩大宣传示威团 (Tianjin Xuesheng Kuoda xuanchuan shiwei tuan)
undated
Note
English translation: "What Do You Call 'Secret Diplomacy?,'" Tianjin Student's Society for the Broader Dissemination of Information
box 73
6. "留东中国学生救亡会宣言 (Liu Dong Zhongguo xuesheng jiuwang hui xuanyan)"
1936
Note
English translation: "Manifesto of the Committee of Chinese Students in Tokyo for the Salvation of the Nation"
box 73
7. "告平津同学书 (Gao ping jin tongxue shu)," 北平燕京大学学生自治会 (Beiping Yanjing Daxue xuesheng zizhi hui)
1934
Note
English translation: "Letter to [My] Gaopingjin Classmates," Beiping Yanjing University Student Self-Governance Committee
box 42
8. "成立宣言 (Chengli Xuanyan)," 北平各界救国联合会者 (Beiping Ge Jie Jiuguo Lianhehuizhe)
undated
Note
English translation: "Founding Manifesto," Members of the Federation of Beiping People from All Walks of Life for the Salvation
of the Nation
box 42
9. "中国共产党北方局对西安事变和平解决宣言 (Zhongguo Gongchandang beifangju dui Xi'an shibian heping jiejue xuanyan)"
1936
Note
English translation: "Manifesto of the Northern Office of the Chinese Communist Party Regarding a Peaceful Settlement to the
Xi'an Incident of December 12th, 1936 [the kidnapping of Chiang Kai-Shek]"
box 42
10. "《一二,一二》纪念宣传大纲 ('Yi Er, Yi Er' Jinian Xuanchaun Dagang)," 西北各界救国联合会宣传部 (Xibei Gejie Jiuguo Lianhehui Xuanchuanbu)
1936
Note
English translation: "One Two, One Two: A Statement of Leading Principles," The Propaganda Department of the Northwestern
Federation of People from All Walks of Life for the Salvation of the Nation
box 42
11. "告各党各派书 (Gao Ge Dang Ge Pai Shu)," 西北各界救国联合会宣传部 (Xibei Gejie Jiuguo Lianhehui Xuanchuanbu)
1936
Note
English translation: "A Message to Every Party and Every Faction," The Propaganda Department of the Northwestern Federation
of People from All Walks of Life for the Salvation of the Nation
box 42
12. "中华苏维埃人民共和国中央政府《驻》西北办事处命令 (Zhonghua suweiai rengong heguo zhongyang zhengfu《zhu》Xibei banshichu mingling)"
1936 May 21
Note
English translation: "Order from the Northwest Office of the Chinese Soviet People's Republic Central Government," signed
by Chairman Bo Gu
box 42
13. "中华苏维埃人民共和国中央政府《驻》西北办事处布告, 主席博古 (Zhonghua suweiai renmin gongheguo zhongyang zhengfu zhu xibei banshichu bugao, zhuxi
Bo Gu)"
1936 July 8
Note
English translation: "Notice from the Northwest Office of the Chinese Soviet People's Republic Central Government," signed
by Chairman Bo Gu
box 42
14. "中华苏维埃人民共和国中央政府《驻》西北办事处布告(关于母羊), 主席博古 (Zhonghua suweiai renmin gongheguo zhongyang zhengfu zhu xibei banshichu bugao,
zhuxi Bo Gu)"
1936 January 10
Note
English translation: "Notice [regarding sheep] from the Northwest Office of the Chinese Soviet People's Republic Central Government,"
signed by Chairman Bo Gu
box 73
15. "中华苏维埃人民共和国中央政府《驻》西北办事处土地部布告, 部长王观澜 (Zhonghua suweiai renmin gongheguo zhongyang zhengfu zhu xibei banshichu tudi bu bugao,
buzhang Wang Guanlan),"
1936 January 25
Note
English translation: "Notice on Land Policy from the Northwest Office Land Department of the Chinese Soviet People's Republic
Central Government," signed by Minister Wang Guan Lan
box 73
16. "中华苏维埃人民共和国中央政府《驻》西北办事处土地部训令 (Zhonghua suweiai renmin gongheguo zhongyang zhengfu zhu xibei banshichu tudi bu xunling,
buzhang Wang Guanlan)"
1936 March 26
Note
English translation: "Notice on Land Policy from the Northwest Office Land Department of the Chinese Soviet People's Republic
Central Government," signed by Minister Wang Guanlan
box 73
17. "中华苏维埃共和国临时中央政府《驻》西北办事处布告, 主席博古, 财政部长林伯渠 (Zhonghua suweiai gongheguo linshi zhongyang zhengfu zhu xibei banshichu bugao,
zhuxi Bo Gu caicheng buzhang Lin Boqu)"
1935 December 1
Note
English translation: "Notice from the Northwest Office of the Chinese Soviet Republic Interim Central Government," signed
by Chairman Bo Gu and Finance Minister Lin Boqu
box 73
18. "红军总司令部命令 (Hongjun zongsilingbu mingling)"
1935 November
Scope and Contents note
Translated as "Order from Red Army General Headquarters." This is a proclamation issued in the name of Zhu De, Commander -in-Chief
of the Chinese Red Army, designed to encourage desertion and defection among the Nationalist army personnel.
box 73
19. "从武汉到井崗山, 红军生历史第一页 (Cong Wuhan dao Jinggang Shan, hongjun sheng lishi di yi ye)"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Translated as "From Wuhan to Jinggang Mountain: The First Page in the History of the Growth of the Chinese Red Army." Includes
original handwritten manuscript in Chinese, as well as both a handwritten and typescript English translation of the manuscript
by Nym Wales. Also includes a hand-drawn map of the route.
box 42
20. "红一军团在反攻中所经过的战斗表(自一九三四年十月六日起到一九三五年十月二十一日止) (Hong yi juntuan fangong zhong suo jingguo de zhandou biao)," 中国工农红军第一军团司令部
(Zhongguo gongnong hongjun diyi juntuan silingbu)
1935
Scope and Contents note
Translated to English as "Battles and Experiences During Long March by the 1st Red Army Corps," Headquarters of the Chinese
Red Army, 1st Army Corps. Includes information on the army's activities from October 6, 1934 to October 21, 1935.
box 73
21. "过去的我 (Guoqu de wo)," 萧华 (Xiao Hua)
circa 1936
Scope and Contents note
Autobiographical manuscript written by Xiao Hua, translated as "My Past Self."
box 73
22. Hand bound booklet of Long March personal narratives
1934-1935
Scope and Contents note
Includes "楼山关前后 ("All Around Loushan Pass") by Xue Feng and "Yexingjun de yi mu" ("Scene from a Night March") and "Ni pusa"
("Clay Bodhisattva") by Xiao Peng.
box 73
23. "告军警书 (Gao junjing shu)," 复旦大学学生救国会 (Fudan danxue xuesheng jiuguo hui)
1935
Note
English translation: "Document on the Military and the Police," Committee of Fudan University Students for the Salvation of
the Nation
box 73
24. "告全国同胞书 (Gao quanguo tongbao shu)," 上海复旦大学学生救国会 (Shanghai Fudan danxue xuesheng jiuguo hui)
1935
Note
English translation: "A Message to All Fellow Citizens," Committee of Fudan University Students for the Salvation of the Nation
box 73
25. "复旦大学扩大宣传团前进曲 (Fudan daxue kuoda xuanchuan tuan qianjin qu)," 复旦大学学生救国会 (Fudan danxue xuesheng jiuguo hui)
1935
Note
English translation: "Fudan University Rally Song for Disseminating Propaganda," Committee of Fudan University Students for
the Salvation of the Nation
box 73
26. "师大同学为第二次示威运动宣言 (Shida tongxue we di'er ci shiweiyundong xuanyan)," 国立北平师范大学学生自治会 (Guoli Beiping Shifan Daxue xuesheng
zizhi hui)
1935
Note
English translation: "Declaration for a Second Demonstration of the Students of Beijing Normal University," Beiping Normal
University Student Group for Self-Governance
box 42
Brochure for Cathay Hotel in Shanghai
undated
ART
Scope and Contents note
Contains charcoal drawings by Chinese artist Wang Junchu (Wang Chün Ch'u) and glass plate negative. See also: Envelope mX
in the Photographs series.
folio case
Charcoal drawings by Wang Junchu
1929
undated
Scope and Contents note
Folder A: Two portraits of Chinese man (2 poses)
Folder B: Two portraits of Chinese workers, one with basket, one with bag
Folder C: Two portraits of Chinese workers, one with shovel, one working with hammer and chisel
Folder D: Two portraits of Chinese workers, one with a plow, one hauling a load with a rope
Folder E: Two portraits of Chinese workers, one portrait of two laborers, one portrait of a worker fishing
Folder F: Two portraits of Chinese workers, one portrait of man with a musket and a dead animal at his feet, one portrait
of a man eating with chopsticks from a bowl
Folder G: Two nude portraits of Chinese women, 1929-1930
Folder H: Two nude portraits of Chinese women, 1929
Folder I: Three nude portraits of Chinese women (one sheet of paper has a portrait on each side)
Folder J: Two nude portraits of Chinese women dated 1929, one with 鈞初炭画 (Junchu tanhua: "Charcoal portrait by Junchu") written
on the back
Folder K: One drawing of a Chinese worker wielding a sickle and cutting grain
box 41
Glass plate negative and 2 prints of charcoal sketch frescos of the Red Army by Wang Junchu
1930s
Note
Box 41 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 65, online digital
Portrait of man wearing hat
1944
box 65, online digital
Woodcut print of agricultural workers in field
1930s-1940s
box 65, online digital
Woodcut print of man and buffalo straining to pull a load
1930s-1940s
Long March sketches
1930s-1940s
Conditions Governing Access
Scope and Contents
Consists of a set of black ink sketches made along the route of the Long March by one of its survivors, Zhen Huang. The artist
used scraps of paper of different kinds, sizes, and colors--whatever was available. Includes an inventory of the drawings
which were originally presented to Nym Wales in Yenan in 1937. Also includes 2 woodblock prints and 1 charcoal sketch.
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Shieh Shan
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Poor family in Yunan Village
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: An aged hero
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Marching on the "Glass Land"
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Little Barley Corn
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: A woman of the Miao tribe
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: A "Lao-lao" tribe leader
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Night in Ancient Woods
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Han men
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: No tobacco
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Each soldier bears his own food
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Comrade Tung Ching-chang
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 74, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Cooking vessels
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 75, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Baffulo in Thibet
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 75, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Milling our own corn
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 75, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Before meal in Chunghwa
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 75, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Dwelling house of the tribesman
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 75, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Lao-lao regiment of the Red Army
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 75, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Am Sing Faung (Village)
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 75, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Crossing the Yung Tu River
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 75, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Making tobacco
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 75, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Everybody was happy in descending
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 75, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: We are so happy by meeting the Han tribe people again
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 75, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Crossing the Lu Ting Bridge
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
box 75, online digital
Sketch of the Long March: Near sun setting
1934-1935
Conditions Governing Access
INCREMENTS
1931-1992
Scope and Contents note
Contains additional material not yet fully arranged into appropriate series. Files are organized by date the increment was
received.
box 76, folder 4
1982
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy of Yenan notes and Helen Foster Snow's letter of introduction from Mao Tse-Tung to Teng Hsiao-P'ing (1937). Also
includes copies of drafts from
Long Thoughts: Essays and a Chinese translation of "Helen Foster's Trip."
box 38, folder 1
1984
Scope and Contents note
Draft of
My China Years by Nym Wales with handwritten notes and edits throughout.
box 38, folder 2-3, box 39, folder 1
1985
Scope and Contents note
Contains photocopies of printed matter (1981-1985), relating mostly to Chinese industrial cooperatives, as well as typescripts
of
My China Years and "Profiles from China." Also included is a printed copy of
My China Years (1984), correspondence, biographical information and articles about Rewi Alley and George Alwyn Hogg, a model constitution
template for Chinese industrial cooperative societies, publications and directives from the American Committee for Industrial
Cooperatives, photocopies of articles relating to cooperatives in China in the 1980s, and accounts of the history of the term
"gung ho" as it relates to industrial cooperatives in China.
box 39, folder 2-3
1987
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of excerpts of "Long Thoughts," as well as photocopies of correspondence, including a letter from Huang Hua relating
to conditions in Yenan (October 4, 1944). Also included are photocopies of statements, book reviews, and clippings relating
to Nym Wales' writings and an exhibit in Xi'an, China entitled "Helen Snow in China," honoring her 80th birthday and the 50th
anniversary of her trip to Yenan. See also: photographs in Envelope AI and albums from fAJ.
box 39, folder 4-5, box 40, folder 1
1988
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy of
Profiles from China: People I Have Known (1985), a Korean translation of
Song of Ariran (1984), the
Bulletin of the Society of Woman Geographers, June 1, 1983 - May 31, 1984, a hardcover copy of
My China Years, and a paperback copy of the Chinese translation.
box 43, folder 1
1989
Scope and Contents note
Includes a Korean publication with a review of
Song of Arirang [sic], a copy of "NüBing LieZhuan, Di Yi Ji" ("Life Stories of the Heroines, First Collection"), and two copies of the Japanese
publication
People's Waves, one of which contains an interview with Nym Wales. Also included are a typewritten manuscript by Wales entitled, "Long Thoughts,
1989: Essay Memoirs" and four publications (1985-1989) with chapters on Wales in Chinese and Korean, which are loose in box
43.
box 43, folder 2
January
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Typewritten manuscript by Nym Wales entitled, "Soundings: Essay Memoirs and Period Pieces."
box 44
June
Scope and Contents note
Typewritten manuscripts, dated from 1969-1990, relating to Chinese politics, society, and American history.
July
Scope and Contents note
Writings, photocopies of photographs, and material relating to an exhibit on Helen Foster Snow, which opened in Beijing on
July 10, 1987. Also included is a videocassette entitled, "HFS Exhibition from Photo Album Sent to Her from An Wei."
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"HFS Exhibition from Photo Album Sent to Her from An Wei," videocassette
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box 49, folder 4-5
1991
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Writings, correspondence, and clippings relating to the life of Helen Foster Snow, Chinese politics and society, and American
history (1989-1991).
box 50
May
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Writings, correspondence, notes, speeches, articles, news dispatches, books, and clippings relating to various aspects of
Helen Foster Snow's life, such as her return to China in 1972, as well as the histories of China, England, and New England
(1932-1992). Box 51 contains a Chinese translation of
Inside Red China, a Chinese translation of
Red Star Over China, a Korean translation of
Song of Ariran, and a Japanese translation of
My China Years. Box 53 also contains
The Saybrook Story: A Dramatized History of Saybrook on the Connecticut River, Founded in 1635, a Japanese translation of
My China Years, and several works in Chinese, including:
Return to China,
Collected Research of Zhang Wentian, and a history of modern China by Zhang Wentian.
box 54
December
Scope and Contents note
Essays, short stories, notes, poems, and correspondence (1980-1992) relating to various aspects of Helen Foster Snow's life,
Chinese society and politics, and early American history. Includes biographical information and photocopies of photographs.
Box 58 also includes a
Dictionary of International Biography. Box 59 includes the works
Notes on the Early History of Madison, Connecticut, Volume I;
The Photograph (an English translation of selected works of Bing Xin); and
The Photograph Collection of Ba Jin which is in Chinese with English translations.
1997, 2011
Scope and Contents note
Includes writings, short stories, correspondence, and unpublished manuscripts, primarily focused on the experience of foreigners
in China, the history of New England, and the achievements of Helen Foster Snow. Box 63 includes an envelope with six photos
from the inauguration of the Helen Foster Snow School in China, as well as a videocassette of a broadcast on "Song of Arirang"
from KBS Seoul, Korea (March 28, 1993). Box 64 includes a book in Chinese entitled
Mao Zedong's Homeland by Helen Foster Snow, an unpublished manuscript titled "Scenes from the China Years," and a hardbound copy of a photo essay
compiled on the occasion of Wales' funeral,
Bridging: A Photo Essay on the Life of Helen Foster Snow (in English with Chinese translations on each page). Box 66 includes handbills, broadsides, posters, dispatches, and news
clippings, primarily relating to the Chinese Student Movement from 1931-1937. Also contains posters and pamphlets promoting
the cause of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, writings by Nym Wales, and clippings from Chinese newspapers of translated articles
by Nym Wales and Edgar Snow.
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"Song of Arirang" from KBS Seoul, Korea, videocassette
1993 March 28
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