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C.V. Starr East Asian Library

C.V. Starr East Asian Library

300 Kent Hall
1140 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027, USA
starr@library.columbia.edu
The C. V. Starr East Asian Library is one of the major collections for the study of East Asia in the United States, with materials in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Mongol, Manchu, and western-languages, including books (both print and electronic), periodicals, newspapers, audio-visual material, databases, and more.
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Center for US-China Arts Exchange records, 1956-2019, bulk 1977-2003 102 Linear Feet (27 manuscript boxes, 67 record cartons, 2 flat boxes, 7 oversize flat boxes, 3 binder album boxes, 6 audiocassette boxes, 2 videocassette boxes, 4 LP record storage boxes)

Chou, Wen-Chung, 1923-2019
This collection of records document the institutional history of the Center for US-China Arts Exchange, established in 1978. Under the directorship of professor and renowned composer Chou Wen-chung, the Center is a not-for-profit organization that connected arts professionals from the US and China through a spectrum of curated programs, conferences, and research trips. Bulk dated between 1977 and 2003, materials in this collection consist of correspondence, reports, photographs, printed materials, as well as audiovisual items. The collection serves as important material evidence that helps to tell the recent history of cultural communications among individuals and organizations across the Pacific.
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China Institute in America records, 1926-2012, bulk 1931-1996 65 linear feet (12 record cartons, 80 manuscript boxes, 11 half manuscript boxes, 1 album box)

China Institute in America
China Institute in America records document the decades-long organizational history of the renowned institute. Established in 1926, China Institute in America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to deepening the world's understanding of China through programs in art, business, culture, and education. The bulk of the collection, dating between 1931 and 1996, showcases the Institute's operations in various projects and initiatives as well as its affiliations with acclaimed individuals. Materials consist of administrative records, correspondence, reports, manuscripts, ephemera, and photographs.
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Collection of China's Spring 1989 Democracy Movement, 1988-1997, bulk 1989-1990 11.5 Linear Feet (10 document boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 1 audio-visual box)

Wagner, Marsha L.

The Collection of China's spring 1989 democracy movement (六四前后中国民主运动资料汇集) documents the legacy of the democracy movement in China during 1989 as well as events leading up to the Tiananmen Square Incident and its aftermath, dating from 1988 to 1997, and with the bulk of the materials dating from 1989 to 1990. The collection holds the originals and the photocopies of over 300 ephemeral posters, leaflet/handbills, newsletters, open letters, and petitions created and distributed in 1989, including those issued by the Peking Workers Autonomous Association (北京工人自治联合会), student groups from various universities, the "Hunger Strike Newsletter" and other unofficial news bulletins, intellectuals' petitions to the government, cartoons, and poetry. The collection also comprises over 200 photographs depicting demonstration banners, big character posters, petitions and letters to the leaders. The collection also contains 15 eye-witness reports by Asians and Westerners, reports of human rights organizations, as well as books, miscellaneous news magazine articles and newspaper clippings. Related materials in the collection also include Spring 1989 issues of the banned intellectuals' journal "Eastern Record"; 147 slides of work shown at the Peking National Gallery's avant-garde exhibition; and a video tape of interviews with artists and performance art at the February 5, 1989 opening of that exhibition. Other items are several VHS, audiocassettes, floppy disks, fragments of wall posters, a T-shirt, and commemorative envelopes. A large fabric banner prepared by Chinese students at the University of Michigan which was sent to Peking where it was displayed at Tiananmen Square in May 1989 and later returned to the U.S., is also included in the collection.

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Patricia Koo Tsien and Kia Chi Tsien papers, 1910s-2018, bulk 1932-1999 16.5 Linear Feet (32 full manuscript boxes, 1 half manuscript box, 2 flat boxes, 1 photo album box)

Koo, V. K. Wellington, 1888-1985
The Patricia Koo Tsien and Kia Chi Tsien papers document the decades of internationally rooted lives of the Tsien couple, as well as family history materials on the Koo and Tsien families. The bulk of the papers consist of files associated with the professional and personal trajectories of Patricia Koo Tsien and Kia Chi Tsien, arranged in respective series. Also included are materials pertaining to the research of Koo and Tsien's family histories, in particular manuscripts, transcripts, and annotated copies of the Wellington Koo Memoir, and materials on Oei Huilan, Madame Wellington Koo.
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Ta-Chun Hsu papers, circa 1904-2016, bulk 1938-2008 7 Linear Feet (8 manuscript boxes and 4 flat boxes)

Hsu, Ta-Chun, 1918-2015
The Ta-Chun Hsu papers (徐大春檔案) document his personal life and provide a glimpse of his career in China and in the United States. The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence related to his family and his personal life as a Chinese-American and an immigrant living in New York. The correspondence also highlights his relation to a prominent Chinese educator and philosopher, Hu Shih (胡適) and his family. There are also materials related to his father, Hsu Singloh (徐新六), who was a major finance and banking leader during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Also included are immigration and travel documents of T.C. Hsu. Other materials also include news clippings, articles, financial records, printed materials, portraits and photographs, maps and postcards.
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The Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film, 1863-2015, bulk 1920s-1990s 370.11 linear feet (743 boxes)

Makino, Mamoru, 1930-
Over the course of fifty years, the former documentary filmmaker Makino Mamoru (1930-) developed an extensive collection on the history of East Asian film, which covers the history of Japanese cinema spanning over a hundred years. The collection as a whole contains approximately 80,000 items, and focuses on print materials. The materials cover various film events and festivals across multiple genres of films: experimental films, educational films, documentary films, news films, amateur films, and animated films, among many others. The collection contains books, correspondences, handbills, magazines, manuscripts, newspapers, notes, photographs, postcards, posters, scripts/scenarios, slides, glass plate negatives, video cassettes, and other printed materials.
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Theodore Richards Conant Collection, 1949-2010, bulk 1953-2000 76 Linear Feet (17 manuscript boxes, 4 half manuscript boxes, 48 flat boxes, 12 record cartons)

Conant, Theodore Richards, 1926-2015
The Theodore Richards Conant Collection documents the life and film making career of Theodore Richards Conant, dating from 1949 to 2010, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1953 to 2000. The focus of the materials is on the Korean War, Korean culture and society. Materials in the collection consist of his personal papers and a substantial amount of audiovisual materials related to the documentary films created and/or collected by him during his career. The personal papers consist of clippings, ephemera, correspondence, scenarios, notes, catalogs, journals and other unique items. The photographs in the collection document Korea's political and cultural aspect, as well as Conant's work in Korea as a film producer while working in the UN Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA). The audiovisual materials are the documentaries directed and filmed by Conant, related to the Korean War, Korean society and culture.
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Tsuyee Pei papers, 1929-1951, bulk 1943-1948 12.1 linear feet (29 full manuscript boxes)

Pei, Tsuyee, 1893-1982
The Tsuyee Pei papers document Pei's professional and personal life and provide a glimpse of his career in East Asia and North America during the last years of WWII and the years immediately following. The bulk of the papers consists of correspondences, memoranda, cables and telegrams, and other career files from between 1943 and 1949. These materials highlight Pei's role as first, the general manager of the Bank of China, then, the governor of the Central Bank of China, and offers great details on the development of the banking system in China, wartime aid and relief, foreign exchange market, and international business and economic cooperation. Other materials include newspaper clippings, greeting cards, and printed matter.
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