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This subseries contains personal, professional and vocational correspondence of George Arthur Plimpton.

Subseries includes memoranda, correspondence, statements, press releases, reports, treaties, and documents focusing on foreign relations and mutual aids between the U.S. and China, dating from 1946 to 1956. The materials primarily emphasize on the attempted efforts of the U.S. in uniting the forces of the Chinese Nationalist and the Communist after the Sino-Japanese War, and the military and economic support of the U.S. for the Nationalist government during the Chinese Civil War and the Cold War. Materials also include the China lobby in the U.S. during the Cold War period and the U.S. public opinions and policies on China.

Columbia University contains correspondence and other records during Barnett's tenure at Columbia, along with lecture notes, syllabi, and administrative records for courses taught there. Also in this subseries are correspondence and other documents pertaining to speeches, interviews, and papers given by Barnett via television, radio and conferences he attended. Of special note are handwritten drafts, final copies, and correspondence pertaining to his 1966 statements before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Subcommittee on the Far East and Pacific plus records of his role on the Asian Task Force for Hubert H. Humphrey's unsuccessful Presidential campaign in 1968. This subseries also contains records of Barnett's fellowship year in Hong Kong, 1964-1965, to study Chinese Communist political systems at the local level.