Center for US-China Arts Exchange records, 1956-2019, bulk 1977-2003

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Series I: Photographs, 1957-1991

Arranged chronologically.


Early Slides, 1972-1981

35mm slides of early photographs



Box 1 Folder 1 Beijing, 1972-1973


Box 1 Folder 2 Hangzhou, 1972-1973


Box 1 Folder 3 Paris, Hangzhou, Beijing, 1972-1973


Box 1 Folder 4 Chinese Artisans and Landscapes, 1972-1973


Box 1 Folder 5 Music Performances, 1972


Box 1 Folder 6 Industrial Exhibition, 1972-1973


Box 1 Folder 7 Miscellaneous, 1972-1973


Box 1 Folder 8 Miscellaneous, 1976-1978


Box 1 Folder 9 Music Performances, Street Scenes, 1977, 1979


Box 1 Folder 10 Xi'an, 1977


Box 1 Folder 11 Chengdu, Magic Show, 1977


Box 1 Folder 12 Chengdu, Du Fu Thatched Cottage/杜甫草堂, 1977


Box 1 Folder 13 Beijing, Subway, 1977


Box 1 Folder 14 Shanghai, Beijing, 1977


Box 1 Folder 15 Shanghai, Music, 1977


Box 1 Folder 16 Kunming, Performances, 1977


Box 1 Folder 17 Trade Exhibition Fair, 1977


Box 1 Folder 18 Bejing: Mao Yuan Concert; Shanghai, Guangzhou Ballet, 1977



Box 2 Folder 1 Oil Refinery, 1977


Box 2 Folder 2 Zhoukoudian/周口店, 1977


Box 2 Folder 3 Peking University, 1977


Box 2 Folder 4 Beijing, Fragrant Hills/香山, 1977


Box 2 Folder 5 Central Conservatory of Music/中央广播民族乐团, 1977


Box 2 Folder 6 Chengdu, Textile Factory, 1977


Box 2 Folder 7 Chengdu, Sports, 1977


Box 2 Folder 8 Committee for US-China Relations, 1977


Box 2 Folder 9 Dujiangyan/都江堰, 1977


Box 2 Folder 10 Yunnan, 1977


Box 2 Folder 11 Kunming, Dianchi Lake/滇池, 1977


Box 2 Folder 12 Kunming, Minority Nationalities, 1977


Box 2 Folder 13 Kunming Institute of Botany/昆明植物研究所, 1977


Box 2 Folder 14 Korea, 1977


Box 2 Folder 15 Shanghai, Beijing: Concerts and Rehearsals, 1979 February


Box 2 Folder 16 Beijing: Central Ballet and Rehearsals, 1979 February


Box 2 Folder 17 Beijing: Central Ballet, 1979 February


Box 2 Folder 18 Beijing: Theaters, 1979 February


Box 2 Folder 19 Beijing, Shanghai: Ballet and Conservatory, 1979 February-March


Box 2 Folder 20 Bejing, Shanghai, Nanjing: Arts Institutions, 1979 March


Box 2 Folder 21 Beijing: Central Conservatory and Central Philharmonic, 1979 March


Box 2 Folder 22 Beijing: Opera, 1979 March


Box 2 Folder 23 Beijing: Trains and Countryside Scenes, 1979 March


Box 2 Folder 24 Shanghai: Ballet and Opera, 1979 March


Box 2 Folder 25 Nanjing, 1979 March


Box 2 Folder 26 Nanjing: Performances by Children, 1979 March


Box 2 Folder 27 Nanjing and Wuxi: Train Scenes, 1979 March


Box 2 Folder 28 Suzhou, 1979 March



Box 3 Folder 1 Miscellaneous, 1979 March-July


Box 3 Folder 2 Shanghai: Conservatory and Harbor Scenes, 1979 June


Box 3 Folder 3 Shanghai: Harbor, 1979 June


Box 3 Folder 4 Korea, 1979


Box 3 Folder 5 Miscellaneous, 1979-1980


Box 3 Folder 6 Reunion, 1979


Box 3 Folder 7 Yungang/云岗, 1980


Box 3 Folder 8 Shaolin Temple/少林寺, 1980


Box 3 Folder 9 Kaifeng, 1980


Box 3 Folder 10 Luoyang, 1980


Box 3 Folder 11 Zhengzhou, 1980


Box 3 Folder 12 US Trade Exhibition/美国经济贸易展览会, 1980


Box 3 Folder 13 Shanghai: Art Academies, 1980


Box 3 Folder 14 Shanghai, 1981


Box 3 Folder 15 Beijing: Theater, 1981


Box 3 Folder 16 Beijing, 1981


Box 3 Folder 17 Street Scenes, 1981


Box 3 Folder 18 Yungang and Beijing, 1981


Box 3 Folder 19 Hangzhou, 1981



Box 101 Miscellaneous, 1972-1981, 1 photo albums

Slides originally stored in projector carousels and kepted in original order



Box 120 Shanghai Film Studio/上海电影制片厂, 1979, 1 photo albums

Album ascribed to the Delegation of American Film Workers on February 12, 1979.


Box 120 Beijing Dance Academy/北京舞蹈学院, 1979, 1 photo albums

Album ascribed to Chou Wen-chung on March 13, 1979.



Box 121 National Theatre of China/中国中央实验话剧院, 1980, 1 photo albums

Album ascribed to Center for US-China Arts Exchange in December 1980 in Beijing. The theater/organization, 中国中央实验话剧院, later merged into the National Theatre of China.



Box 4 Folder 1 Chinese Theatre Productions, 1957-1959, 1980 March



Box 11 Folder 1 China, 1970s-1980s


Box 11 Folder 2 China, 1978 February


Box 11 Folder 3 Beijing, circa 1979



Box 92 Folder 1-4 Miscellaneous Early Photographs, circa 1977-1997

Includes photographs of Cao Yu, Arthur Miller, Zhou Erfu, I.M. Pei, Ying Ruocheng, Yin falu,the Chinese and American delegations,Chinary Ung, Isang Yun, Peter Sculthorpe, Joji Yuasa, Chen Xieyang, Lin Mohan, Ding Ling, Deng Xiaoping, and Susan Sontag; photographs by Emile Bocian, Cornell Capa, Charles Abbott; and selected photographs in Yunnan



Box 93 Folder 1 Chou Wen-Chung in Center Office, Rome


Box 93 Folder 2 Beijing, Music Institutions, 1977-1979


Box 93 Folder 3 Central Conservatory of Music/中央音乐学院广播民族乐团, circa 1979


Box 93 Folder 4 American Art Delegation, Li Haisu/李海粟, 1979



Box 92 Folder 5 Isaac Stern, 1979



Box 93 Folder 5 Arts Education Delegation, 1979-1980


Box 93 Folder 6 Newsletter Photographs, 1980s



Box 4 Folder 2 Arthur Miller and Cao Yu/曹禺, 1980 March


Box 4 Folder 3 Cao Yu and Ying Ruocheng, at University of Washington and Stanford University, 1980 April


Box 4 Folder 4 Cao Yu, Seminar on Chinese Theatre, 1980 March


Box 4 Folder 5 Cao Yu, Portraits with Negatives, 1980 March


Music and Arts Education Delegation


Box 4 Folder 6 New York City, 1980 April


Box 4 Folder 7 New York, 1980 April


Box 4 Folder 8 California, 1980 April


Box 4 Folder 9 Music Educators National Conference, in Miami, Florida, 1980 April 8


Box 4 Folder 10 Washington D.C., 1980 April


Box 4 Folder 11 Indianapolis, 1980 April


Box 4 Folder 12 Isaac Stern and Tan Shuzhen/谭抒真, 1980 March


Box 4 Folder 13 University of Chicago, 1980 April


Box 4 Folder 14 Cao Yu//曹禺, Henry Geldzahler, NYC Commissioner, 1980 April



Box 11 Folder 4-5 Miscellaneous, 2 folders, 1980



Box 4 Folder 15 Visiting Chinese Musician, Steinway Seminar, 1980 August


Box 4 Folder 16 Visiting Chinese Artists: Hua Junwu/华君武, Huang Yongyu/黄永玉, 1980 September


Box 4 Folder 17 David Gilbert, 1980-1982


Box 4 Folder 18 Jin Weinuo/金维诺, 1980 November-1981 March


Box 4 Folder 19 Li Cunxin/李存信, Houston Ballet, 1980


Box 4 Folder 20 Chou Wen-chung: Trip to China, 1980


Box 4 Folder 21 Roberta Peters, 1981


Box 4 Folder 22 Chou Wen-chung: Asian Composers League Conference in Hong Kong, 1981 March


Delegation of Prominent American Artists


Box 4 Folder 23 China, 1981 April



Box 5 Folder 1 Central Conservatory of Music/中央音乐学院, 1981 April


Box 5 Folder 2 George Segal, etc., 1981 April


Box 5 Folder 3 Capa and Center Photographs, 1981 April


Box 5 Folder 4 Chen Gang, Li Keyu, Mao Yuan/陈钢,李克瑜,茅沅, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Reception, 1981 March



Box 93 Folder 7 Chen Gang, Mao Yuan/陈钢,茅沅, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Reception, 1981



Box 5 Folder 5 Chen Gang, Li Keyu, Mao Yuan/陈钢,李克瑜,茅沅, Summer Concerts at Old Westbury Gardens, 1981 July


Box 5 Folder 6 Li Keyu and Mao Yuan, 李克瑜, 茅沅, 1981


Box 5 Folder 7 Chen Gang/陈钢, 1981 February-June


Box 5 Folder 8 Staff at U.S.-China Arts Exchange, 1981 July, 1983


Box 5 Folder 9 Chou Wen-chung, Portraits, 1981-1983, 1992


Box 5 Folder 10 Chou Wen-chung, with Family, 1982


Box 5 Folder 11 Michelle Vosper, Portrait, 1981


Box 5 Folder 12 Jacob Lateiner and Anderson, at Conservatory and Central Philharmonic, 1981 August


Chen Xieyang/陈燮阳


Box 5 Folder 13 Trip to Washington D.C., 1981 December



Box 100 Folder 5 Trip to Washington D.C., 1981 December



Box 5 Folder 14 Portraits

With signature


Box 5 Folder 15 Debut with Group for Contemporary Music, 1981



Box 6 Folder 1 Reception after concert at the Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous, 1982


Box 6 Folder 2 Aspen Music Festival, 1982 Summer


Box 6 Folder 3 International Center of Photography (ICP) Forum, 1981 October


Box 6 Folder 4 Ding Ling Visit/丁玲, 1981 November


Box 6 Folder 5 Anita Aronoff, Beverly Sills, 1982


Box 6 Folder 6 Violinists Delegation to U.S., 1982 July-October


Box 6 Folder 7 Reception for Michelle Vosper, 1982 August 16


Box 6 Folder 8 Yuan Yunsheng/袁运生, 1982 Fall


Box 6 Folder 9 China-U.S. Conference on Art Education, 1982


Box 6 Folder 10 U.S.-China Writers Conference, 1982


Box 6 Folder 11 Yin Falu/阴法鲁, Zhang Zhiren, 1982 November-1983 May


Box 6 Folder 12 Ambassador Zhang Dinner at Nikolais's House, 1983 April 25



Box 7 Folder 1 Delegation to China, 1983 May


Box 7 Folder 2 PEN Symposium, circa 1983


Box 7 Folder 3 Julius Hegyi, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, circa 1983


Box 7 Folder 4 Assorted Photographs for Summer 1983 Newsletter, 1982-1983


Box 7 Folder 5 Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman at Beijing People's Art Theater, 1983 May

Include playbill


Box 7 Folder 6 Wu Wenguang/吴文光, Luo Jingjing/罗京京, 1983 Fall



Box 93 Folder 8 Wu Wenguang/吴文光, 1983 December



Box 7 Folder 7 Doctorow, Edgar L.; Kinnell, Galway, 1983 October


Box 7 Folder 8 Zhang Zhizhong/张致中; Zhu Ziqi/朱子奇, 1984


Box 7 Folder 9 Advisory Council Dinner, 1984


Box 7 Folder 10 Staff Party for May Wu; Susan Sternglass Farewell Party, 1984


Box 7 Folder 11 Chen Yifei/陈逸飞, Cocktail Party, 1984 October


Box 7 Folder 12 Zhao Ruiyang, Wu Huiming/吴惠明, 1985


China Trip



Box 82 Folder 1 Guilin, 1985


Box 82 Folder 2 Liuzhou and Guilin, 1985


Box 82 Folder 3 Chengdu, 1985


Box 82 Folder 4 Guangzhou and Gulangyu, 1985


Box 82 Folder 5 Gulangyu, 1985


Box 82 Folder 6 Xiamen, 1985


Box 82 Folder 7 Chou Wen-Chung, 1985

Includes letter



Box 93 Folder 9 Miscellaneous, circa 1986



Box 7 Folder 13 Writers Conference, New York City, 1986 January


Box 7 Folder 14 Newsletter photographs, 1986 Summer



Box 8 Folder 1 Assorted Past photos for Center Newsletters, 1986


Box 8 Folder 2 Pavarotti, 1986 Summer


Box 8 Folder 3 National Dance Institute; National Theatre of the Deaf, 1986 May


Box 8 Folder 4 Arts Education, 1986 Fall-1987 Spring


Box 8 Folder 5 Balachine Project, 1986 November, 1987 June


Box 8 Folder 6 Reception photographs, 1987


Box 8 Folder 7 Lao Jing/Old Well/老井, directed by Wu Tianming/吴天明, circa 1987


Box 8 Folder 8 Scenery of the West Part of China, Lu Linglong/中国西部风景, 吕玲珑, circa 1987, 140 color slides in 1 album


Box 8 Folder 9 Nielsen Exhibition, 1987 Spring

Photographs of exhibition artworks


Fact-finding Delegation


Box 8 Folder 10 1987 November



Box 10 Folder 4-6 1987 December


Box 10 Folder 7 Newsletter Vol.9, 1987 December


Box 10 Folder 8 Negatives, 1987 December



Box 11 Folder 6 1988 January


Box 11 Folder 7 Beijing: Art Academy, 1987 December


Box 11 Folder 8 Sculpture, 1987 December


Box 11 Folder 9 Beijing, 1987 December


Box 11 Folder 10 Beijing: Temple of Heaven and Tiananmen Square, 1987 December



Box 12 Folder 1 Shanghai, 1987 December


Box 12 Folder 2 Suzhou, 1987 December


Box 12 Folder 3 Chengdu, 1987 December



Box 93 Folder 10 Ben Stevenson and Chinese Ballet Dancers, 1988 January



Box 8 Folder 11-12 Arts Education Conference, 1988 July



Box 82 Folder 8 China: Visual Arts, 1988 July



Box 8 Folder 13-14 Chinese Composers Conference, 1988 August

Include list of books, magazines, and music scores given by composers



Box 9 Folder 1 Asia Trip with Leonard Bernstein, 1989 March-April


Box 9 Folder 2 O'Neill Teachers, 1989 Spring


Box 9 Folder 2 Qu Xiaosong/瞿小松, 1989 Spring


Box 9 Folder 2 Kennedy Center Arts Education Delegation, 1989 May 11-13


Box 9 Folder 2 Ministry of Culture, Lunch at Terrace, 1991 May 17


Box 9 Folder 3 Ding Shande, Shanghai Conservatory/丁善德, 上海音乐学院, 1991 July 16


Box 9 Folder 4 Susan L. Rhodes, Colorado and New Mexico for Minority Arts Project, 1991 November



Box 1 Folder 19 Chinese Delegates in the US, 1990s


Yunnan Project



Box 3 Folder 20 Lunan/泸南



Box 82 Folder 9 1991



Box 83 Folder 1 1993 February


Box 83 Folder 2 circa 1995



Box 82 Folder 10 Yunnan Art Museum Collection Album, 1993 February



Box 83 Folder 3 Pamphlet Draft, 1990-1995


Box 83 Folder 4 Lijiang, 1990-1995

Include loose scrapbook sheets


Box 83 Folder 5 Minorities Costume and Headdress, undated


Box 83 Folder 6 Yunnan Nationalities Institute/云南民族大学, 1994


Box 83 Folder 7-11 1995 February


Box 83 Folder 12 Xishuangbanna/西双版纳, 1995



Box 84 Folder 1 circa 1995-1996


Box 84 Folder 2 Yunnan Fieldwork Exhibition, 1996


Box 84 Folder 3 Shanghai and Kunming, 1996


Box 84 Folder 4-5 Kunming, 1996


Box 84 Folder 6 Kunming and Lijiang, 1996


Box 84 Folder 7-10 Lijiang, 1996


Box 84 Folder 11 Diqing, 1996



Box 85 Folder 1-3 Dali, 1996



Box 93 Folder 11 First Review, 1995-1998



Box 3 Folder 21 Chou Wen-Chung, undated


Yunnan Leadership Conference



Box 90 Folder 1-5 Lijiang Joint Sessions, 1999


Box 90 Folder 6 Lijiang Traditional Concert, 1999


Box 90 Folder 7 Visits to Lijiang Old Section, 1999



Box 91 Folder 1 Visit to Village Near Lijiang, 1999


Box 91 Folder 2-5 Kunming Sessions, 1999


Box 91 Folder 6 Visits to Nationalities Museum, 1999



Box 92 Folder 6 Visits to Nationalities School, 1999


Box 92 Folder 7 Chou Wen-Chung, 1999, 22 photographs in one album; with gift notes



Box 1 Folder 20 Bronze Drum, 1999



Box 85 Folder 4 1999 June


Box 85 Folder 5 Dali, 1999


Box 85 Folder 6 Tiger Leaping Gorge/虎跳峡, 1999



Box 86 Folder 1-7 Lijiang, 1999


Box 86 Folder 8-14 Zhongdian/Shangri-La, 1999



Box 87 Folder 1 Weishan, 2000-2001

Includes a photo disk



Box 88 Folder 1 Miscellaneous, undated



Box 93 Folder 12 World Monuments Fund, 2000


Box 93 Folder 13 Southern Silk Road, Zhaotong/昭通, circa 2000



Box 102 Photo Album, 1995, 1 photo albums; 251 photographs in one album



Box 103 Photo Album, 1999, 1 photo albums; 266 photographs in one album



Box 117 Negatives, undated



Box 1 Folder 21 Central Conservatory of Music/中央音乐学院, 1997


Cities East and West



Box 88 Folder 2 Beijing, 1997 June


Box 88 Folder 3 Changzhou and Beijing, 1997 June



Box 87 Folder 2-9 Changzhou, 1997 June



Box 88 Folder 4 Changzhou and Yangzhou, 1997 June


Box 88 Folder 5-9 Yangzhou, 1997 June



Box 89 Folder 1 Dali and Yangzhou, 1997 June


Box 89 Folder 2 Shanghai and Dali, 1997 June


Box 89 Folder 3-9 Changshu, 1997 June



Box 85 Folder 7-8 Shaoxing, 1997 June


Box 85 Folder 9-10 Shaoxing and Hong Kong, 1997 June



Box 3 Folder 22 Two Cities Photos with Captions, undated



Box 93 Folder 14 Deng Qiyao, Zhou Kaimo, Wu Zuqiang/邓启耀, 周凯模, 吴祖强, 2000-2005


Box 93 Folder 15 Miscellaneous, undated



Box 1 Folder 22 Center Anniversary Trip to Yunnan, 2010, 120 photographs in one album



Box 12 Folder 4 Yangtze River, Tibet, undated, 41 photographic prints in 1 album


Chinese Art, Culture, Music

35mm slides used for Chou Wen-Chung's classes and lectures on Chinese art, music, and culture



Box 9 Folder 5 Music in Traditional Asian Paintings, undated


Box 9 Folder 6 Traditional Asian Music, undated


Box 9 Folder 7 Chinese Instruments, undated


Box 9 Folder 8 Asian Instruments, undated


Box 9 Folder 9 Chinese Opera, undated


Box 9 Folder 10 Dance Performance, undated


Box 9 Folder 11 Modern Chinese Paintings, undated


Box 9 Folder 12-14 Slides of Collections in the National Palace Museum/國立故宮博物院幻燈片, undated


Box 9 Folder 15 Miscellaneous Chinese Paintings, Art, Culture, Statues of Musicians, undated



Box 10 Folder 1 Qin Scores, Asian Musicians, Asian Art, undated


Box 10 Folder 2 Bianzhong/编钟, undated

Includes negatives and enlarged photographic prints


Box 10 Folder 3 Japanese Kabuki Theater in Paintings, undated



Box 82 Folder 11 Artifacts and Paintings in Chinese Museums, undated


Film Strips of Qin Scores/琴谱



Box 117 1. Western Qin Score/西琴谱, undated


Box 117 2. Western Qin Score, Newly Composed Qin Score, New Qin Score/西琴谱,新作琴谱,新琴谱, undated


Box 117 3. New Qin Scores/新琴谱, undated


Box 117 China Negatives, undated