Tsuyee Pei papers, 1929-1951, bulk 1943-1948
Summary Information
Abstract
At a Glance
- Bib ID:
- 17849234 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Pei, Tsuyee, 1893-1982
- Repository:
- C. V. Starr East Asian Library
- Physical Description:
- 12.1 linear feet (29 full manuscript boxes)
- Language(s):
- English , Chinese .
- Access:
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The collection has no restriction.
This collection is located offsite.
Description
Scope and Contents
The Tsuyee Pei papers comprise of correspondences, cables and telegrams, memoranda, news clippings, printed matter, and greeting cards, dating from 1929 to 1951, bulk dating from 1943 to 1949. The bulk of career files highlight Pei's leadership the financial sector in China during the last years of WWII. There are correspondences and memoranda highlight Pei's role as the general manager of the Bank of China. The files offer great details on wartime aid and relief and international business and economic cooperation. In particular, there are reports, proceedings, and correspondences from when Pei was in the Chinese Delegation to the United States Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods in 1944. Another assemblage of files feature Pei's professional activities between 1948 and 1949, largely after Pei's arrival in the United States. There are files related to when Pei led the Technical Mission to Washington D.C. in spring 1948. Other files highlight activities about foreign exchange, international commodity market, and post-war economic reform in China. There are also letters between Pei and prominent Nationalist figures such as Kia-ngau Chang (张公权/张嘉璈), T. V. Soong (宋子文), and David Kung Ling-kan (孔令侃). Other materials include a small batch of private and family files, holiday greeting cards received likely after Pei family's arrival in the US, and various printed matter on topics of banking, commerce, finance.
貝祖貽檔案包括通信、電報、備忘通函、新聞剪報、印刷品和賀卡，廣泛日期爲1929年至1951年，主要集中於1943年至1949年。檔案的大部分內展現了貝祖貽在20世紀，尤其是在二戰末期，在中國金融業中的領導地位。檔案中的通函和備忘錄源於貝擔任中國銀行總經理的職務內容。這些文件刻畫了二戰時援助、救濟以及國際商務和經濟合作的重要細節。其中包括貝在1944年佈雷頓森林會議上擔任中國代表團一員時的報告、會議記錄和信函。另一批檔案涵蓋了貝祖貽在1948年至1949年間，攜家抵達美國後的業務活動。其中包括貝祖貽在1948年春季率領中華民國技術代表團駐華盛頓訪問的文件，以及貝在外匯、國際大宗商品市場以及中國戰後經濟改革方面進行的活動的材料。另有貝祖貽與國民黨要人如張公權、宋子文和孔令侃之間的書信。其他材料包括一小批私人和家庭文件，在美國收到的假日賀卡，以及有關銀行、商業和金融主題的各種印刷品。
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approximately 380 greeting cards received
Arrangement
Collection is arranged into 5 series by subject and material type.
- Series I: Career Files, WWII, bulk 1943-1945
- Sub-Series I.1: General Career Files
- Sub-Series I.2: United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, 1944 July
- Series II: Career Files, Post-WWII, bulk 1948-1949
- Series III: Private & Family Files
- Series IV: Greeting Cards
- Series V: Printed Matter
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
The collection has no restriction.
This collection is located offsite.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item, Date (if known); Tsuyee Pei papers, Box # and Folder #; C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University Libraries
Related Materials
V. K. Wellington Koo papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Patricia Pei, 2018
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, C. V. Starr East Asian Library
Processing Information
Processed by Evian Yiyun Pan, 2023
Biographical / Historical
Tsuyee Pei (Pei Tsu-yi, 貝祖貽, 字淞荪; 1893-27 December 1982) was a renowned Chinese banker in 20th century. A native of Wu County, Jiangsu Province, Pei attended the Chengzhong Middle School in Shanghai and the Affiliated High School of Suzhou University. In 1911, Pei entered the Imperial Railway College in Tangshan, Hebei Province, one of the predecessor of the Southwest Jiaotong University in the present day. At the age of 23, Pei joined the Bank of China's head office in Peking. He was transferred to the Canton office two years later, before moving onto the Hong Kong branch where Pei began to specialize in arbitrage. After returning to mainland China in 1927, Pei ordered Bank of China branches in commerce and treaty ports to engage in foreign exchange operations. After a research trip of banking operations to Europe in 1931, Pei took on the role of manager of the Foreign Department and the Trust Department at the Bank of China. In the following years, under the leadership of T. V. Soong, Pei helped plan Chinese financial reform initiatives, including currency reforms. He spent most of the Second Sino-Japanese War in Chungking/Chongqing, where the Nationalist government was based. Pei was appointed acting general manager of the Bank of China in 1941 and, in this position, attended the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, representing the Nationalist government. Between February 26, 1946 and February 15, 1947, he was a governor of the Central Bank of China. Pei moved to the United States in 1948. He sought support for the Nationalist government, which soon lost the Chinese Civil War and subsequently retreated to Taiwan. From 1952, Pei served as a director of C. V. Starr & Company, a holding company active in the American and Asian insurance markets. In 1959, he moved to the Shanghai Commercial Bank of Hong Kong, assuming a directorship position between 1962 and 1973. Tsuyee Pei was married to Lien Kwun until her death of cancer in 1929, and later married Aileen C. Pei in 1931. His six children included sons I. M. Pei, Y. K. Pei, Y. T. Pei and daughters Cecelia Shen, Denise Sze and Patricia Tang. Pei died at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital on 27 December 1982, aged 89.
貝祖貽（1893年—1982年12月27日），字淞蓀，生於大清帝國江蘇省吳縣，銀行家，曾任中國銀行副總經理、常務董事，中華民國中央銀行總裁，英屬香港上海商業銀行董事長。貝祖貽自幼受私塾教育，1903年，至上海就讀澄衷中學。1907年，考取蘇州東吳大學中學部，接受高中教育。1911年，進入河北唐山路礦學堂（現今西南交通大學的前身）就讀。貝在23歲時加入了中國銀行北京總行，兩年後被調往廣州分行，其後轉至香港分行，開始專攻套匯業務。1927年返回大陸後，貝領導了中國銀行在商埠和通商口岸開展外匯業務。1931年，貝祖貽至歐洲考察銀行業務, 回國後，任中國銀行國外部與信託部經理。之後數年，貝參與推動了由宋子文領導的各項金融改革舉措。抗日戰爭期間，貝大都在國民政府所在地重慶度過。1941年，貝任中國銀行總經理，並代表國民政府出席了1944年的佈雷頓森林會議。1946年2月26日至1947年2月15日間，貝擔任中華民國中央銀行總裁。1948年，貝祖詒攜全家赴美國。赴美初年，貝向各方尋求對國共內戰時期國民政府的支持。1952年起，貝出任美亞保險公司董事長、紐約斯泰公司 (C. V. Starr & Company) 顧問。1959年，貝加入了香港上海商業銀行，於1962年至1973年擔任董事。貝祖貽1910年與莊氏結婚，直至1929年莊氏因癌症去世。1931年貝與蔣士雲結婚。貝膝下有三子三女，包括長子貝聿銘。貝祖貽與1982年12月27日於曼哈頓的Lenox Hill醫院去世，享年89歲。
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