Charles Beach Boothe papers, 1850-1976: Correspondence, memoranda, and clippings relating to the involvement of C. B. Boothe, Homer Lea, and other Americans, with Sun Yat-sen and other Chinese, in schemes to overthrow the Chinese Imperial Government, 1908-1911, and to Laurence Boothe, son of C. B. Boothe, 1905-1976. Includes a mounted photograph of Sun Yat-sen, 1910; printed copies of two books by Homer Lea, The Vermilion Pencil, and The Valor of Ignorance; and photocopies of mortality registers of Sacramento, California, 1850-1851.
Flora Belle Jan letters, 1918-1949: Contains Flora Belle Jan's letters to her friend Ludmelia Holstein, relating to journalism in the United States and China and to personal matters. Published as Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan (Urbana, 2009).
Iris Chang 張純如 papers, 1877-2007: The Iris Chang 張純如 papers (1877-2007) contain correspondence, writings, recordings and transcripts of interviews, photocopies of government records and other documents, printed matter, audiovisual material, and memorabilia relating to the history of Chinese in the United States, and to aspects of World War II. Includes research material for the books by Iris Chang, Thread of the Silkworm (New York, 1995), The Rape of Nanking (New York, 1997), and The Chinese in America (New York, 2003), and for an uncompleted work on conditions of American soldiers captured by Japanese forces and Japanese atrocities against American prisoners of war.
Jack Chen 陳依範 papers, bulk 1927-1980: The Jack Chen 陳依範 papers (1913-1995) contain drawings, cartoons, writings, correspondence, and clippings, relating to political conditions in China, foreign relations of China, and world politics. Includes political cartoons by Jack Chen published in the international communist press.
Judy Yung 楊碧芳 slide collection, undated: The Judy Yung 楊碧芳 slide collection depicts Chinese women in the United States; a selection of images used as illustrations for the book, Chinese Women in America: a Pictorial History, University of Washington Press, 1986.
Pardee Lowe papers, 1911-2007: The papers consist primarily of writings, correspondence, notes, reports, memoranda, minutes, bulletins, clippings, pamphlets, serial issues, and other printed matter, relating to the U.S. Department of State, international education, educational activities of UNESCO, political and economic conditions in East Asia, the Free China cause, and Sino-Soviet relations. Of particular importance are ephemera, clippings, and other research materials related to Chinatowns, especially San Francisco Chinatown, and to Chinese Americans.
Harry K. Fukuhara papers, approximately 1920-1980: Harry K. Fukuhara was born in Seattle, Washington in 1920. Following WWII, he worked as part of the US Army's occupation and reconstruction of Japan, helping to establish post-war US-Japanese relations. The collection contains photos, documents, and interviews related to Harry K. Fukuhara's life and career. From high school in Hiroshima, as a military intelligence interpreter, and as a military intelligence officer during the occupation period of Japan.
Hiroshi Kashiwagi papers, 1941-2018: Diaries, writings, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to Japanese American internment during World War II and to postwar civil rights.
Japanese diaspora collection, 1889-2023: Reports, pamphlets, postcards, other printed matter, photographs, and digital materials relating to Japanese immigration to the United States and elsewhere, the Japanese community in the United States, and Japanese American internment during World War II.
Japanese diaspora oral history project records, 2017: Digital interview recordings of Japanese Americans relating to immigration to the United States from Japan, internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the post-war Japanese American community. Interviews conducted by Kaoru Ueda. Includes images of diaries, newsletters, and other textual material.
Karl R. Bendetsen papers, 1917-1989: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, studies, interview transcripts, minutes, statements, orders, printed matter, scrapbooks, and audiovisual materials relating to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, American military organization and military policy during World War II and the Korean War, subsequent American defense policy, the Strategic Defense Initiative, American foreign policy, and the Champion International Corporation. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Kotoharu and Sumiye Inouye papers, 1922-1947: Diaries, correspondence, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the Japanese American community and to internment of Inouye and his wife Sumiye during World War II.
Margaret Cosgrave Sowers papers, 1941-1951: Correspondence, clippings, serial issues, other printed matter, and mimeographed material, relating to the internment of Japanese Americans in relocation centers during World War II.
National Japanese American Student Relocation Council records, 1942-1946: Correspondence, reports, case files, minutes, and questionnaires, relating to the placement of interned Japanese American students in colleges and universities in the U.S. during World War II.
S. I. Hayakawa papers, 1926-1994: Correspondence, speeches and writings, memoranda, reports, government documents, clippings, other printed matter, photographs, sound tape cassettes, videotape cassettes, and memorabilia relating to semantics and education, student radicalism, the Japanese American community, American politics, the Republican Party, and American foreign relations and domestic policy.
Thomas Ray Bodine papers, 1941-1982: Correspondence, writings, notes, memoranda, reports, newsletters, printed matter, and photographs, relating to relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, and to the placement of Japanese-American students in colleges.
Yamanaka Hayato interview summaries, 1999: Summaries of interviews of Japanese American residents of Hawaii relating to the Japanese American community in Hawaii. Includes photographs of interviewees. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Stanley Karnow papers, 1900-2009: Notes, news dispatches, interview transcripts, government documents, studies, reports, printed matter, and photographs relating to political conditions and international relations primarily in Asia, and especially in China, Vietnam and the Philippines, and to Asian American communities. Used as research materials for books by Stanley Karnow.
Survey of Race Relations records, 1905-1934: An anthropological investigative project sponsored by various private organizations, the Survey of Race Relations records include a report, correspondence, interview transcripts, questionnaires, and printed matter relating to the social and economic status of Chinese, Japanese, other Asian, Mexican, and other minority residents of the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada, and to race relations on the Pacific Coast.
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