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This series contains a printed copy of a stone tablet at Sianfu, Shensi, China, reporting the introduction of Christianity into China in 634 A.D (showing only the Chinese text), and the envelope in which it was received from China.

Series VI features the operations of the Chinese Art Society of America, established in 1944 and a close collaborator of the China Institute. The Chinese Art Society works to disseminate knowledge of Chinese art through publications and organized events and exhibitions. Select exhibitions took place at the China House of the China Institute.

Series X comprise groupings of business cards collected from primarily China and the US.

Organized alphabetically, and loosely chronologically within smaller groupings, Series III collects fruitful documentation that portrays China Institute's facilitative and intermediary activities during WWII. Not only does one see milestones of China Institute's own development – the acceptance of and relocation into the China House at 125 East 65th St, the Institute's home for the decades to come – one can identify exchanges between the Institute and important individuals across the pacific. Topics discussed range from services to students in China and the US, emergency relief and support to libraries and other educational institutions.

Files include Chang's China Press columns and other published and unpublished writings, research notes, collected newspapers and magazines that cover topics including Chinatown, Asian American history, the Lower East Side, China, and the Pacific War, Chin Chow comic clippings, and published novels, poems and textbooks.

This series contains journals, a scrapbook, and clippings that Sites collected while in China. The bulk of the material covers his early years in China. This was a foundational period among Protestant missions in China because they were given new access to mission fields, and important mission organizations such as the China Inland Mission were being founded; the fact that Sites supported the indigenization of the church in China during this early period, as revealed in this material, is significant, as this movement only gained widespread support among missionaries decades later. The journals describe his life in Fuzhou as well as trips through the surrounding countryside. Many of the clippings collected in the scrapbook are from articles and published letters written by Sites' wife, Sarah Moore Sites. Others deal with aspects of Chinese culture or Christian religious life.

For decades in the twentieth century, China Institute continued to administer scholarships and provide services to Chinese students. Files detailing this aspect of the Institute's work are gathered under Series V. Sub-Series V.1 gathers correspondence and application files of the Tsing Hua University Fellowships, whose establishment was first in communication in 1933, following when the National Tsing Hua University of China delegated the work of the Chinese Educational Mission to the US to China Institute. In the next two decades, China Institute welcomed applications from dozens of Tsing Hua students and professors to study in the United States. Sub-Series V.2 includes correspondence and application files for the C. T. Loo Chinese Education Fund and the Frank M. Shu Scientific Fellowship that took place throughout the 1950s. Sub-Series V.3 consists of files resulting from other scholarships and services such as the Office of Educational Fund, Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation, China International Foundation. Notably, China Institute had also offered employment placement services to students, connecting them with opportunities for practical training.