China Institute in America records, 1926-1976, bulk 1931-1959

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Series III: Wartime Affairs and Activities, bulk 1942-1947

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.

Arranged alphabetically



Box 19 Folder 1 A, Miscellaneous, 1945-1946


Box 19 Folder 2 A Association 一社, 1944-1945

or AA Association


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

Budgets and minutes


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

Lin Yutang 林语堂


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