June Rose Garrott papers, 1960-2015

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

Arrangement

Arranged in ten series.

• Series I: Nien Cheng
• Series II: Lei Liang
• Series III: Lao She and Family
• Series IV: Correspondence
• Series V: Manuscripts
• Series VI: Documents
• Series VII: Photographs
• Series VIII Art
• Series IX: Audio Visual/Digital
• Series X: Printed Matter
• Additions to the Papers

Description

Summary

The most substantial part of the collection is the extensive correspondence between Nien Cheng and June Rose Garrott (originals have been scanned onto discs). There are letters; WWW print-outs; email print-outs; artwork; audio cassettes; VHS tapes; DVDs; CDs; photographs; a scroll; a fan; printed ephemera; books; and a bust of Lao She.

• Series I: Nien Cheng

  1990-2005 loose letters and emails mostly between Nien Cheng and Garrott or regarding Nien Cheng.

  Nien Cheng's memoir Life and Death in Shanghai was widely praised as one of the most riveting accounts of the Cultural Revolution

  The originals have been scanned onto discs in Box 9.

• Series II: Lei Liang

  Lei Liang (b.1972) is a Chinese-born American composer. He is the winner of the 2011 Rome Prize, a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aaron Copland Award, a Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commission and a Creative Capital Award. His concerto Xiaoxiang (for saxophone and orchestra) was named a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Music.

• Series III: Lao She and Family

  Lao She, pseudonym of Shu Sheyu, original name Shu Qingchun (born February 3, 1899, Beijing, China—died August 24, 1966, Beijing) was a Chinese author of humorous, satiric novels and short stories and, after the onset of the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), of patriotic and propagandistic plays and novels.

• Series IV: Correspondence

• Series V: Manuscripts

• Series VI: Documents

• Series VII: Photographs

• Series VIII Art

• Series IX: Audio Visual/Digital

• Series X: Printed Matter

• Additions to the Papers

  Gift of June Rose Garrott, 2018

Using the Collection

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); June Rose Garrott Papers; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

2015.2017.M017: Source of acquisition--June Rose Garrott. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--7/8/2015.

2016.2017.M059: Source of acquisition--June Rose Garrott. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--7/8/2015.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers underprocessed ptl 12/7/2016.

Revision Description

2016-12-07 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Subject Headings

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History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

June Rose Garrott served as a missionary in Hong Kong in the 1960s. She and her husband joined the Hong Kong/Macao Baptist Mission from 1961-1969. Garrott went on to teach in the English Department at WKU, spent five years teaching English to college students in China, and was the international student adviser at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. In 1986, while teaching in Beijing's Second Foreign Language Institute, Garrott instructed the daughter of Shu Yi, the only son of the Lao She. The following year, the granddaughter of Lao She was assigned to Garrott as a personal translator. Subsequently, Garrott was invited to the Shu home. In 1992, with a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, Garrott was appointed Professor in the Department of English at Seinan Jo Gakuin Junior College in Kitakyushu, Japan. As a missionary and educator in Hong Kong and China, she amassed substantial materials related to Chinese life and society. Garrott established a close friendship with Nien Cheng, a well-known chronicler of the hardships of the Cultural Revolution and a research interest in Lao She, penname of Shu Qingchun, who wrote in the early 20th century and is considered one of the most important modern Chinese literary figures. This collection features audiotapes of Lao She lecturing in the 1920s. Professor Garrott ia also a friend and supporter of the composer Lei Liang.