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This series contains the extensive correspondence kept by Banninga and his colleagues around the world, including church leaders in India, England, Sweden, and the United States. Particularly frequent correspondents include the Bishops of Madras, Dornakal, Bombay, Calcutta, Columbo, Tinnevelly, and Gloucester, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Metropolitan of India, J.H. Maclean, W.E. Tomlinson, H. Gulliford, W.J. Noble, W.I. Chamberlain, F.J. Western, J.S.M. Hooper, L. Hodgson, W. Paton, H.V. Martin, M. Warren, J.E.L. Newbigin, F.W. Tomkins, and S. Eddy. The bulk of the letters deal with the creation of the Church Union, although a few discuss other professional and personal matters. These letters contain essential information concerning the stance and arguments of various individuals and denominations involved in the negotiations on the Church Union. This series also contains documents on Church Union History including conference statements, reports, proposals, minutes, memoranda, and resolutions related to the Church Union; clippings from the Guardian, Madras Mail, The Christian Century, Dnyanodaya, and Church Times; documents on Lay Celebration consisting primarily of responses to letters sent by Banninga on the question of allowing laymen to administer communion in the absence of an ordained minister; CSI/Lutheran Joint Commission documents including reports on the meetings of the Church of South India (CSI) with representatives from the Lutheran and Baptist churches to discuss a possible union; Banninga's notes, personal memoranda of events related to World War II from 1941 – 1942, a description of his trip back to the United States in 1942, an exam, and other documents; as well as notes, drafts, correspondence, and certificates of Bengt Sundkler, a Swedish missionary who wrote the book Church of South India: The Movement Towards Union, 1900 – 1947.

This series contains hundreds of original documents collected by Columbia College student Stuart Gedal that analyze social issues and the Vietnam War, announce meetings, rallies, and demonstrations, and reflect the sometimes fractious internal debates among student movement activists. The materials reflect Gedal's slow but steadily growing enthusiasm for anti-war, civil rights and "Black Power" organizing. It also marks his own personal journey from aspiring attorney and liberal Democratic politician to full-time student movement organizer and militant activist.

Series IV, organized chronologically by project, comprise correspondence, meeting notes, itineraries, reports, programs, press releases, etc. – files that record the initiation, planning, execution, and documentation of the wide variety of programs the Center organized, primarily dating between 1978 and 2002. Selected early programs include American Film Delegation, the meeting and exchange among dramatists Cao Yu/曹禺, Ying Ruocheng/英若诚 and Arthur Miller, the multiple editions of the Music and Arts Education Delegation (1980-1988, partially funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund), Isaac Stern's trip to China, and delegations of Chinese dramatists, musicians, dancers, writers, and visual artists to the US. Also covered by the materials are visits to the US by Chinese arts professionals such as Jin Weinuo/金维诺, Chen Gang/陈钢,Li Keyu/李克瑜, Mao Yuan/茅沅, Chen Xieyang/陈燮阳, Yuan Yunsheng/袁运生, Wu Wenguang/吴文光, Luo Jingjing/罗京京, Yin Falu/阴法鲁, Zhang Zhizhong/张致中, Chen Yifei/陈逸飞, Meng Guang,孟光, Shen Roujian/沈柔坚, Zhu Zeping/朱则平, Yu Runyang/于润洋, Wu Tianming/吴天明, and Qu Xiaosong/瞿小松. Due to composer Chou Wen-chung's directorship, the Center naturally participated in leading several music-centered projects such as the Taiwan project (1988-1989), and the Pacific Music Festival and the Pacific Composers Conference (PMF/PCC, 1989-1991), for which materials in this series offer important details. Beginning in the mid-1980s, the Center also led interdisciplinary, cultural studies programs, including Cities East and West, A Comparative Study: Innovation and Tradition (1984-1997), and the Ford Minority Art Project/Yunnan Nationalities Cultures Project (circa 1991-2002).