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.
Photo: Iris Chang papers, Box 384, Folder 14, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University.
1985-1999
Sound and video recordings of interviews of Jews in China, relating to the Chinese Jewish community. Used as research material for the doctoral dissertation by Wendy Abraham, The Role of Confucian and Jewish Educational Values in the Assimilation of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng (Columbia University, 1989).
1877-2007
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.
Cheu (Richard A.) interview sound recordings
1985-2006
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed matter, and photographs, relating to economic conditions in Taiwan; and sound recordings of interviews, mainly with Chinese Americans born in the United States between 1900 and 1925, relating to the Chinese American experience. Digital copies of selected items also available.
2009
Relates to education in Tibet. Includes interviews of and drawings by students.
Young (Helen Praeger) interviews
1985-1997
Sound recordings and translations of transcripts of interviews of women veterans of the Chinese Long March of 1934-1935 used as research material for the book by Helen Praeger Young, Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March (Urbana, 2001).
Zhongguo di zheng yan jiu suo interviews
1977, undated
Interviews with twenty-one officials who participated in the Taiwan Land Reform Program, 1949-1953, conducted by the China Research Institute of Land Economics. Includes transcripts.
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