Series I details the general program files resulting from China Institute's decades of operations. Tracing as early as 1931, five years after the Institute's founding, the bulk of the files includes correspondences, reports, and meeting minutes. The files have been grouped chronologically by decade. Sub-Series I.1 consists of important correspondences that shed light on the Institute's work as a recently established organization. The batch of alphabetically-organized correspondences from between 1933 and 1934 indicate a gap of missing files to be identified. Sub-Series I.2 includes files from the late 1930s to 1940s and highlight a group of correspondences in Chinese that may advise inter-continental exchanges following the end of WWII. Sub-Series I.3 consists of select files from the 1950s.
Sub-Series I.1, 1931-1934
Box 1 Folder 1
Reference Requests, 1931-1932
Requests on the research of China, Chinese culture, etc.
Box 1 Folder 2
Scholarship and Financial Assistance for Chinese Students, 1931-1932
Box 1 Folder 3
Correpondences, Manchurian/Sino-Japanese Situation, 1931-1932
Box 1 Folder 4
Conferences and Councils, 1931 July-September
Box 1 Folder 5
Information on Travel in China, 1931 September
Box 1 Folder 6
Flood Relief Work in China, 1931 September-October
Box 1 Folder 7
Committee on Emergency Aid for Chinese Students, 1931-1932
Box 1 Folder 8
China Foundation Fellowships and Prizes, 1931 December-1932 April
Box 1 Folder 9
Letters of Introduction and Recommendation, 1932 January-June
Box 1 Folder 10
W. W. Yen 颜惠庆, Honorary President, 1931 September-1932 April
Box 1 Folder 11
P. W. Kuo 郭秉文, Honorary Director, 1931 June-1932 April
Box 1 Folder 12
E. H. Hume, Secretary, 1931 July-1932 June
Box 1 Folder 13
D. E. Douty, Treasurer, 1931 July-1932 June
Box 1 Folder 14
C. F. Yau, Second Vice President, 1931 July-1932 June
Box 1 Folder 15
W. Murray Crane, First Vice President, 1931 October-1932 March
Box 1 Folder 16
Paul Monroe, President, 1931 July-1932 June
Box 1 Folder 17
Membership Accepted, 1931 July-1932 May
Box 1 Folder 18
Membership Pending, 1931 April-1932 April
Box 1 Folder 19
Membership Declined or Withdrawn, 1931 July-1932 June
Box 1 Folder 20
Summary of Activities, Monthly Reports, 1931 July-1932 June
Box 1 Folder 21
Board of Trustees Meeting, 1931 October
Box 1 Folder 22
Executive Committee Meeting, Invitation, 1931 December
Box 1 Folder 23
Monthly Statements, 1931 July-1932 June
Box 1 Folder 24
Bibliography and Book Orders, 1931
Box 2 Folder 1-2
Lecture Bureau Arrangements, 1931-1932
Box 2 Folder 3
Lectures for Dr. Y. R. Chao, 1932 April-May
Box 2 Folder 4
Lectures for Dr. T. Z. Koo, 1932 April
Box 2 Folder 5
China Committee, 1931 June-September
Box 2 Folder 6
Theses & Dissertations by Chinese Students, 1932 June-August
Box 2 Folder 7
Teaching Positions, 1931-1932
Box 2 Folder 8
Miscellaneous Positions, 1931-1932
Box 2 Folder 9
Miscellaneous Correspondences, 1931-1932
Correspondences, 1933-1934
Box 3 Folder 1
A, 1933-1934
Box 3 Folder 2
Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China, 1933-1934
Box 3 Folder 3
B, 1933-1934
Box 3 Folder 4
C, 1933-1934
Includes Columbia University
Box 3 Folder 5
Chao Mei-Pa 赵梅伯, 1933-1934
On Chao's tour in the U.S.
Box 3 Folder 6
Chao, Y. R., 1933-1934
Box 3 Folder 7
The Chase National Bank, 1933-1934
Box 3 Folder 8
China Foundation, 1933-1934
About scholarships and fellowships
Box 3 Folder 9
China Medical Board, Inc., 1933-1934
Roger S. Greene, Peiping Union Medical College; Margery K. Eggleston, Secretary, China Medical Board, Inc.
Box 3 Folder 10
China Student Organizations, 1933-1934
Box 3 Folder 11
Chinese Chamber of Commerce of New York, Inc. 紐約中華總商會, 1933-1934
Box 3 Folder 12
Chinese Consulate, New York City, 1933-1934
Box 3 Folder 13
Chinese Consulates, Others, 1933-1934
Box 3 Folder 14
Chinese Exhibitors Association, Chicago World Fair, 1933-1934
Box 3 Folder 15
Chinese Legation, Washington, 1933-1934
Box 3 Folder 16
Chinese Legation, Others, 1933-1934
Box 4 Folder 1
D, 1933-1934
Box 4 Folder 2
E, F, 1933-1934
Box 4 Folder 3
Foreign Policy Association, 1933-1934
Box 4 Folder 4
G, 1933-1934
Includes L. C. Goodrich, Department of Chinese, Columbia University
Box 4 Folder 5
H, 1933-1934
Box 4 Folder 6
S, 1933-1934
Sub-Series I.2, bulk 1939-1949
Monthly Office Report/Report of the Associate Director
Box 5 Folder 1
1932 July-1933 June
Box 5 Folder 2
1934 July-1936 June
Box 5 Folder 3
1936 July-1938 June
Box 5 Folder 4
1939 April-1942 February
Box 5 Folder 5
Memoranda, General, 1939-1940
Includes history and summary of CI activities
Box 5 Folder 6
Events Promoted by China Institute, 1940 February
Box 5 Folder 7
Outstanding Accounts, 1935-1940
Box 5 Folder 8
Paid Accounts, 1940 June
Box 5 Folder 9
Financial Reports and Statements, 1939-1940
Box 6 Folder 1-2
Bank Accounts, 1939 July-1940 June
Box 6 Folder 3-5
Bills, 1939-1940
Box 5 Folder 10
Correspondences, Bulletin, 1938-1940
Box 7 Folder 1
Correspondences, Bulletin on the Progress of Chinese Sciences, 1938-1939
Box 7 Folder 2
Correspondences, Recommendations of Chinese Books, 1938
Box 7 Folder 3
Publication Requests from Institutions, 1939-1940
Box 7 Folder 4
Publication Acknowledgements, 1939
Box 7 Folder 5
Crane, W. Murray, Vice-President, 1940 June
Box 7 Folder 6
Brodie, Donald M., Treasurer, 1939-1940
Box 7 Folder 7
Hume, Edward H., Secretary, 1939-1940
Box 7 Folder 8
Monroe, Paul, President, 1938-1940
Box 7 Folder 9
Executive Committee Meeting, 1939 April 2
Box 7 Folder 10
Annual Board Meeting, 1939 May-June
Box 7 Folder 11
Special Board Meeting, 1939 October-November
Box 7 Folder 12
Teaching Positions, 1939-1940
Box 7 Folder 13
Membership, 1939-1940
Box 7 Folder 14
China Institute Report, No.11, 1941 September-October
Box 7 Folder 15
Director's Report, Draft, circa 1941-1942
Box 7 Folder 16
Minutes and Agenda, Annual Board Meeting, 1942 May
Box 8 Folder 1
Correspondences, Edward H. Hume, 1941-1942
Box 8 Folder 2
Statement of Receipts, 1942
Includes General Fund, Ying Keng Fund
Box 8 Folder 3
Budgets (1942-1944) and Invoices, 1942 June
on office supplies, telephone lines
Box 8 Folder 4
Requests for University Catalogues, 1942 September
Box 8 Folder 5
Henry Winters Luce Memorial Invitation, 1944
Box 8 Folder 6
Minutes, Annual Board Meeting, 1945 April-May
Box 8 Folder 7
Yunnan Provincial Committee, Student Fellowship, 1945 May-September
Department of State
Box 8 Folder 8
Correspondences, 1946 February-September
Box 8 Folder 9
Reports, Notices, and Lists, 1946-1949
Box 8 Folder 10
Correspondences, Publications, 1945-1947
Box 8 Folder 11
Correspondences, on Chinese students in the U.S., circa 1946
Box 8 Folder 12
Clippings, Dr. Guo Taiqi 郭泰祺 and Zhang Boling 张伯苓, 1946
Box 8 Folder 13
Clippings, on China, US-China Relations, 1946 September-1947 January
Box 8 Folder 14
Correspondences, Miscellaneous, 1946 August-1947 January
Box 8 Folder 15
Scholarship Booklet Publication & G. I. Awards, 1946 July-November
Box 8 Folder 16
Open House, 1946 October-1947 May
Box 8 Folder 17
Clippings, on China, 1946 October
Box 8 Folder 18
Annual Report of the Director, 1947 April
Box 9 Folder 1
Correspondences, Projects, 1947-1949
Administrative Correspondences in Chinese
Box 9 Folder 2
1946 July
Box 9 Folder 3
1946 August
Box 9 Folder 4
1946 September
Box 9 Folder 5
1946 October
Box 10 Folder 1
1946 November
Box 10 Folder 2
1946 December
Box 10 Folder 3
1947 January
Box 10 Folder 4
1947 February
Box 10 Folder 5
1947 March
Box 11 Folder 1-2
Lists of Chinese Students at Various Institutions & Organizations, 1944-1948
Lists include students at International House, Columbia University, Harvard University, alumni of major Chinese universities in the U.S., Chinese students' club at Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, etc.
Box 11 Folder 3
Correspondences, U.S. Government Bureaus, 1947-1948
Box 11 Folder 4
Correspondences on Remittances, 1947-1948 June
Remittances to the Genetics Department, University of Wisconsin & National Research Bureau of Animal Industry, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Nanking, China
Box 11 Folder 5
Trainee Program, 1948 January-April
Box 11 Folder 6
Clippings & Memorandum, China Decorates Four U.S. Citizens, 1948 May
Box 11 Folder 7
Correspondences, Diana Tan, 1948 May-August
Box 11 Folder 8
Staff Notes, 1948 May-December
Box 11 Folder 9
Letters in Chinese, addressed to China Institute/Chih Meng, 1949 January-March
Box 11 Folder 10
Correspondences, Ssu-ti Li, 1948 December-1949 March
Sub-Series I.3, bulk 1951-1955
Box 11 Folder 11
China Institute of New Jersey, 1940s-1950s
Includes early correspondences, reports from Summer Sessions
Box 12 Folder 1
Open House Invitations, 1951
In-Service Courses
Box 12 Folder 2
Course Materials, 1950 November-December
Box 12 Folder 3
Fliers, Correspondences, Course Materials, 1951
Box 12 Folder 4
Name Lists, 1951 May
Box 12 Folder 5
Department of Placement, 1951
Box 12 Folder 6
Miscellaneous Statements, Press Releases, Forms, 1951
Box 12 Folder 7
Art Exhibitions, 1951
Presented by the Chinese Art Society of America: An Exhibition of Chinese Mirrors (February 2, 1951-); Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Silver (May 21-June 21, 1951); Exhibition of Porcelain Bowls, Plates, Cups and Saucers Painted and Designed by Miss Ching-Chih Yee (July 16-September 28, 1951); An Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Objects of Art of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung (October 10-November 20, 1951)
Box 12 Folder 8
Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, 1951 October 15
Box 12 Folder 9
Correspondences, Colgate University, 1952 February-April
Box 12 Folder 10
Letter from Lih Wu to Chih Meng, on General Clark's Visit to Taiwan, 1952 June 4
Box 12 Folder 11
Executive and Finance Commiittees Meeting Minutes, 1952 June 12
Box 12 Folder 12
Correspondences, Ford Foundation, Carl B. Spaeth, 1952 June
Box 12 Folder 13
Correspondences, Miscellaneous, 1952 December-1953 June
Includes correspondences with University of California; between Henry Luce and Chiang Kai-Shek; with Yale University
Box 12 Folder 14
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, 1953 January 9
Box 12 Folder 15
Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, 1953 March 23
Includes agenda and minutes on scholarships and fellowships
Box 12 Folder 16
In-Service Courses, 1953 January
Application forms and exam sheets
Box 12 Folder 17
Table Setting, Dinner at Waldorf-Astoria, 1953 July 3
Box 12 Folder 18
Tsing Hua Fellowships for Teaching and Research, Personal Data Form & Semi-Annual Progress Report Form, Unused, 1953 July 1
Box 12 Folder 19
Budgets, 1953 December 14
Box 12 Folder 20
Memorandum from Chih Meng to the Trustees, 1955 September 30
Includes discussions on Taiwan Committee
Box 12 Folder 21
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, 1955 October 18
Box 12 Folder 22
The Origin and Growth of the Teacher Training Programs of China Institute in America: A Summary, Chih Meng, circa 1950s
China Institute was initially established in 1926 by the China Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture. Following China Institute's reorganization and incorporation in 1929, the China Foundation continued to participate in its budget and program. Series II, therefore, gathers budget and account statements, receipts and bills, and other funding and budget-related files. In particular, it includes the financial underflows of the Committee on Wartime Planning for Chinese Students in the United States between 1944 and 1947. Please refer to the subsequent Series III for additional files on wartime activities.
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.
Box 19 Folder 1
A, Miscellaneous, 1945-1946
Box 19 Folder 2
A Association 一社, 1944-1945
Box 19 Folder 3
American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, 1942-1946
Box 19 Folder 4
American Council of Learned Societies, 1944 July-December
Box 19 Folder 5
American Experts to China, 1943 September-October
Box 19 Folder 6
B, Miscellaneous, 1944-1946
Box 19 Folder 7
Bailey, Wesley, 1943-1946
Box 19 Folder 8
Bennett, Charles R., 1943-1945
Box 19 Folder 9
Board of Education, China in American Schools, 1944
Box 19 Folder 10
British Boxer Indemnity, Funds and Fellowship, 1943
Box 19 Folder 11
Broadhurst, Iva, 1944 March-October
Box 19 Folder 12
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1942, 1944
Box 19 Folder 13
Brooklyn Museum; Murphy, Michelle, 1943-1944
Box 19 Folder 14
C, Miscellaneous, 1942-1947
Box 19 Folder 15
Chang, Poling 张伯苓, 1948 March-May
House in Shanghai, 1186 West Peking Rd.
Box 19 Folder 16
Chang, Ssu-yi L., 1943 June
Box 19 Folder 17
Chen, Wen-yuan, Methodist Bishop, 1944 March
China House
Box 19 Folder 18
Clippings, China House Gift, 1944 August 27-28
Box 19 Folder 19
Correspondences, 1944-1945
Includes congratutory letters from 王世杰，熊式辉，吴铁城，何应钦，孔祥熙
Box 19 Folder 20
China House, Architecture Plans, Otis E. Kurth, 1944-1945
Includes partial blueprints of 125 East 65th St, Manhattan
Box 19 Folder 21
Correspondences on Photographs, 1944 March-May
Box 19 Folder 22
Decorations and Furnishings, undated
Box 19 Folder 23
Special Gifts, 1944
Box 19 Folder 24
Interior Improvement, 1950-1952
China Institute
Box 20 Folder 1
Lecture Service, 1940
Box 20 Folder 2
Staff Meeting Notes, 1942 September-1943 February
Box 20 Folder 3
Lists of Journals Microfilmed, 1943
Box 20 Folder 4
Meeting & Course Schedules, 1944-1945
Box 20 Folder 5
Memorandum, 1944-1947
Includes introduction to the Institute and articles by Chih Meng
Box 20 Folder 6
Lists of Committees and Members, 1945 February
Box 20 Folder 7
Chinese Community Surveys, 1943 December-1944 May
Box 20 Folder 8
Chinese Young People Christian Conference, Lake Tahoe, 1942-1943
Box 20 Folder 9
Chinese Christian Youth Conference, East Coast, 1944
Chinese National Reconstruction Forum
Box 20 Folder 10
1943
Includes files on the Midwestern Conference at University of Minnesota, 1943
Box 20 Folder 11
Choral Society, 1943-1944
Box 20 Folder 12
The Chinese Economic Forum, Speakers, 1943-1945
Box 20 Folder 13
Chinese Students' Christian Association, Princeton Conference, 1943
Box 20 Folder 14
Chin, Pao-Hsing, 1942-1943
Box 20 Folder 15
Chiu, Chun 邱椿, 1945
Box 20 Folder 16
Cho-Chu, 1943-1948
Box 20 Folder 17
Chow, S. R., 1942-1949
Box 20 Folder 18
Chu Chia-Hua 朱家骅, Minister of Education, 1945-1946
Box 20 Folder 19
Chungking, Letter to Chungking, 1944 December
Box 20 Folder 20
Council on Foreign Relations, American-Chinese Group, 1944
Box 20 Folder 21
D, Miscellaneous, 1942-1947
Box 20 Folder 22
Delafield, Lewis L., Hawkins, Delafield and Longfellow, 1943-1944
Box 21 Folder 1
Dennis, William H., 1943 March-April
Box 21 Folder 2
Economic Section, 1942-1943
Box 21 Folder 3
Freeman, Gladys, 1944-1945
Box 21 Folder 4
Greene, Roger S., 1942-1947
Box 21 Folder 5
H, Miscellaneous, 1942-1946
Box 21 Folder 6
Harmon, Francis S., 1945 May-August
Box 21 Folder 7
Hartt, Arthur W., Mrs., 1945 March-April
Box 21 Folder 8
Hayden, Joel B., 1942-1944
Box 21 Folder 9
The Edward W. Hazen Foundation, 1943-1945
Box 21 Folder 10
The Henry Luce Foundation, 1944-1946
Box 21 Folder 11
Hoe, Y. C., 1943 May-July
Box 21 Folder 12
Hoexter, Samuel J., Chief, Training Section, China Division, Foreign Economic Administration, 1945 June-October
Box 21 Folder 13
Home-Center for Chinese Students in America, 1943
Box 21 Folder 14
The Hoover Library of War, Revolution, and Peace, 1945 March-April
Box 21 Folder 15
Hou, T. P., University Trading Corporation, 1942-1947
Box 21 Folder 16
Hsi, Te-Mou 席德懋, 1944-1947
Box 21 Folder 17
Hsiao, Tsai-Yu, 1943 July
Box 21 Folder 18
Hsu, Ta Chun 徐大春, 1944 February
Box 21 Folder 19
Huang, Thomas Tin-Fah, 1944-1945
Box 21 Folder 20
Hydraulic Engineering Society of China, American Section, circa 1944
Box 21 Folder 21
I, Miscellaneous, 1942-1946
Box 21 Folder 22
In-Service Courses, 1945-1947
Box 21 Folder 23
Indusco, Inc., 1944 March
Box 21 Folder 24
Industrial Trainees, 1946 June-July
Box 21 Folder 25
Institute of International Education, 1943-1946
Box 21 Folder 26
International Cultural Service of China, 1944
Box 22 Folder 1
International Student Assembly, 1944-1945
Box 22 Folder 2
International Student Service of the U.S., 1942-1943
Box 22 Folder 3
Institute on Postwar Reconstruction, 1944 November
Box 22 Folder 4
The Iranian Institute, 1943-1946
Box 22 Folder 5
K, Miscellaneous, 1943-1946
Box 22 Folder 6
Kang, Dora Hwa, 1945
Box 22 Folder 7
Khanna M. C. and Singh, Anup, 1943
Box 22 Folder 8
King, Robert W., 1942-1945
Box 22 Folder 9
Kuo, P. W. 郭秉文, 1944-1947
Box 22 Folder 10
L, Miscellaneous, 1942-1946
Box 22 Folder 11
LaGuardia College, 1944 April
Box 22 Folder 12
Lambie, Margaret, 1944 May
Box 22 Folder 13
Lee, Kan 李榦, 1942-1948
Box 22 Folder 14
Lee, Ming T., 1942-1943
Box 23 Folder 1
Leung, George Kin, 1943
Box 23 Folder 2
Li, Cho Min, 1945 January-February
Box 23 Folder 3
Li, Gwan-Yuen, 1942-1944
Box 23 Folder 4
Li, J. K., 1942-1944
Box 23 Folder 5
Libraries in China, 1943-1944
Box 23 Folder 6
Lo, John Chuan-Fang, 1945 April-May
Box 23 Folder 7
M, Miscellaneous, 1943-1946
Box 23 Folder 8
Magoun, Alexander, 1934-1944
Box 23 Folder 9
Ministry of Communications, Chungking, 1942-1944
Box 23 Folder 10
Monroe, Paul, 1942-1945
Box 23 Folder 11
Nott, Stanley Charles, 1942-1944
Box 23 Folder 12
P, Miscellaneous, 1945-1946
Box 23 Folder 13
Packard, Arthur M., 1944-1945
Box 23 Folder 14
Parkhurst, Helen, 1942-1944
Box 23 Folder 15
Pan, Francis, 1942-1943
Box 23 Folder 16
Pan, J. S. 潘如澍, from Mei Yiqi 梅贻琦, 1943-1944
Box 23 Folder 17
R, Miscellaneous, 1945-1947
Box 23 Folder 18
Ray, J. Franklin Jr., 1943 February-April
Box 23 Folder 19
RCA Manufacuring Company, Inc., 1942 July-October
Box 23 Folder 20
Report to the Rockefeller Foundation on the Periodicals Project of the American Library Association's Committee, 1943-1944
Box 23 Folder 21
Reiss, Frederick, 1944 February-April
Box 23 Folder 22
The Research Bureau for Post-War Economics, John F. Normano
Institute of World Economics
Box 23 Folder 23
Rigo, Felix, 1946 September-October
Box 23 Folder 24
Rockford College, 1945 May
Box 23 Folder 25
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1943-1944
Box 23 Folder 26
S, Micellaneous, 1942-1946
Box 23 Folder 27
T, Miscellaneous, 1944-1946
Box 23 Folder 28
Tong, Hollington K., 1942-1945
Box 23 Folder 29
Tseng, C. K., 1943 May-October
Box 23 Folder 30
U, Miscellaneous, 1942-1946
Box 23 Folder 31
United China Relief, National Student Relief Committee, 1943 April
Reference Materials
Box 24 Folder 1
Mailing List, Additions, 1930s-40s
Box 24 Folder 2
Lists and Extra Copies, 1942
libraries, journals, etc.
Box 24 Folder 3-4
Miscellaneous Reference Requests, 1941-1942
Box 24 Folder 5
Reference Materials, Wartime, 1940-1945
Articles on Sino-American relations and anti-war Japanese, Events in China: Monthly Chronology
Box 24 Folder 6
China Institute Bulletin, 1931-1932, 1941-1943
January 1931, November 1932, December 1941, February 1942, March-April 1942, July 1942, October 1942, January 1943, April 1943
Box 24 Folder 7
Newsletter and Bulletins, 1942-1943
Parks Air News, April 1943; China Calls, November 25, 1942; National Reconstruction Forum Newsletter 学建通讯, December 1942, January 1943, February 1943, March 1943, April 1943, which include articles by Chih Meng
Box 24 Folder 8
Press Releases, incl. British Information Services, 1942-1943
Series IV consists of files generated out of China Institute's publishing and distribution activities, notably the National Reconstruction Journal and its Newsletter, and the China Institute Bulletin. The National Reconstruction Journal (學術建國嚴刊) was published by the Committee on Wartime Planning for Chinese Students in the United States, first in 1942, and was then distributed to various repositories including university libraries. Files relevant to the production of the China Institute Bulletin are also identifiable in the correspondences but the Bulletins are collected across the Series in the collection as they were used and distributed in various circumstances.
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.
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.
Box 43 Folder 1
Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws, 1945-1946, 1951
Box 43 Folder 2-3
Board Meeting Minutes, 1944-1960
Box 43 Folder 4
Correspondences with China Institute, 1945-1957
Box 43 Folder 5
Correspondences with Committees, 1943-1947
Box 43 Folder 6
Editorial Committee, 1948-1949
Box 43 Folder 7
Organizing Committee, 1944, 1950
Box 43 Folder 8
Board of Governors, 1947-1956
Box 43 Folder 9
Correspondences, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1943-1947
Box 43 Folder 10
Budget, 1947-1952
Box 43 Folder 11
Financial Statements, 1945-1966
Box 43 Folder 12
Income Statements and Tax, 1944-1958
Box 44 Folder 1
Sales Tax Exemption, 1954-1958
Membership
Box 44 Folder 2
1951-1966
Box 44 Folder 3
Life Members, 1944-1947
Box 44 Folder 4
Resignation, 1946-1952
Box 44 Folder 5
Membership Drives, 1947-1950
Box 44 Folder 6
Lists of Members, 1944-1953
Box 44 Folder 7
Special Mailing List, undated
Exhibitions
Box 44 Folder 8
General, 1948-1966
Box 44 Folder 9
Chinese Belt Buckles, 1948
Box 44 Folder 10
Chinese Silver Objects, 1949
Box 44 Folder 11
Jointly with China Institute, 1949-1950
Box 44 Folder 12
Chinese Tzu Chou Potteries, 1949
Box 45 Folder 1-3
Brochures and Catalogues, 1944-1967
Box 44 Folder 13
Invitations, 1951-1965
Box 45 Folder 4
Press Releases, 1953-1962
Box 45 Folder 5
Press Clippings, 1951-1967
Box 45 Folder 6
Publications Fund, 1945-1947
Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America
publication by Chinese Art Society of America
Box 45 Folder 7
Volume I, 1946-1952
Box 45 Folder 8
Volume II, 1947-1950
Box 45 Folder 9
Volume III, 1948-1953
Box 45 Folder 10
Volume IV, 1950-1951
Box 45 Folder 11
Sales, 1950s-1960s
Box 46 Folder 1
Group Activities, undated
Box 46 Folder 2
Lectures and Meetups, 1944-1965, 1984
Box 46 Folder 3
2 Guest Books, 1952-1956
Box 46 Folder 4
Miscellaneous Correspondences, 1952-1986
Box 46 Folder 5
Merger, Chinese Art Society Assets with Asia Society, 1965-1967, 1995
Paul Chih Meng (孟治, 1901-1990) headed the China Institute between 1930 and 1967 and directed the Institute's various sets of developments, in particular, the educational aspect of the work such as scholarship and teaching services. Meng's prolific portfolio of writings on the topics of literature and arts, international politics and diplomacy, formulation of cultural identities is documented through Sub-Series VII.1. Sub-Series VII.2 collects correspondences from 1930s and 40s, and from post-retirement years between 1967 and 1975. Additional correspondences from the in-between years are possibly integrated in the general program operations files. Sub-Series VII.3 consists of the Institute's Executive Committee meeting minutes from the years of Meng's directorship.