Summary Information
At a Glance
Call No.: |
MS#0647 |
Bib ID |
4079905
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Creator(s) |
International Institute of Rural Reconstruction |
Title |
International Institute of Rural Reconstruction records, 1914-2018 |
Physical Description |
163 linear feet (271 boxes; Audio Visual boxes; Flat boxes; 8 Tube boxes) |
Language(s) |
English
, Chinese
, Spanish; Castilian
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Access |
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The collection is located off-site, except for cataloged correspondence, oversize materials and acetate disks. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.This collection has no restrictions. Unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are available onsite via links in the container list. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized. |
Arrangement
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. Boxes 167-170: Cataloged correspondence; Boxes 1-161: Arranged correspondence & other records; Boxes 162-166: Printed materials; Oversize box: Blueprints, plans, photographs& maps; Map case 14-M-6: maps Addition, Boxes 1-108.
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Series I Cataloged Correspondence
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Series II Organizations
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Series III Arranged Correspondence
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Series IV Publications
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Series V Proposed Philippines Three-Year Plan
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Series VI Correspondence
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Series VII Y. C. James Yen's Speeches
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Series VIII Y. C. James Yen's Lectures
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Series IX Y. C. James Yen's Notes on Meetings
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Series X Appointment Books & Notebooks, 1949-1990
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Series XI Travels
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Series XII Y.C. James Yen, Personal and Career
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Series XIII Biography & Articles
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Series XIV CNAMEM Publications, 1930s
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Series XV IMEM/IIRR Correspondence
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Series XVI IIRR International
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Series XVII IIRR Correspondence with U.S.A.I.D.
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Series XVIII Assessment of IIRR Program, 1977-1989
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Series XIX Printed Materials
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Series XX Financial Records
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Series XXI Blueprints of IIRR & PRRM Buildings
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Series XXII Publications re. MEM In China
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Series XXIII Blueprints, Maps, Art, Scrapbooks, and Memorabilia
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Series XXIV: Audio Visual Materials, 1926-2002
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Subject Files
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Manuscripts
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Administrative Papers
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Photographs
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Archived Web Site, 2013-present
Description
Summary
Correspondence, manuscripts, lectures, notes, diaries, notebooks, reports, financial records, blueprints, photographs, and printed materials of Y.C. James Yen and the IIRR concerned with the development, sharing, and financing innovative methods of teaching, improving agriculture, health and family planning, and education in impoverished villages. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Pearl Buck, William O. Douglas, Nelson Rockefeller, and DeWitt Clinton.
The Addition: conprises correspondence, reports, financial records, photographs, slides, negatives, contact sheets, photograph albums, scrapbooks, reel to reel films, videocassettes, reel to reel audio tape, tape cassettes, printed materials, maps, works of art, posters, and Chinese calligraphy of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction. This collection is an addition to previously donated and processed IIRR materials. This addition focuses heavily on IIRR's outposts in various countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and houses the bulk of IIRR's photographic, audio visual material, and memorabilia including the awards of Dr. Y.C. James Yen.
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Series I Cataloged Correspondence
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Series II Organizations
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Series III Arranged Correspondence
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Series IV Publications
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Series V Proposed Philippines Three-Year Plan
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Series VI Correspondence
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Series VII Y. C. James Yen's Speeches
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Series VIII Y. C. James Yen's Lectures
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Series IX Y. C. James Yen's Notes on Meetings
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Series X Appointment Books & Notebooks, 1949-1990
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Series XI Travels
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Series XII Y.C. James Yen, Personal and Career
Note: Y. C. James Yen's awards, biographical notes, medical, citizenship, birthday events, memorial services, Y. C. James Yen's will, fellowships Yen established in honor of his teacher Rev. Aldis, and his friend James Stewart, his replies to criticisms, and institutional problems
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Series XIII Biography & Articles
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Series XIV CNAMEM Publications, 1930s
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Series XV IMEM/IIRR Correspondence
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Series XVI IIRR International
Note: Exploration Files, and Responses to Reader's Digest (Selections) Article on Dr. Yen
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Series XVII IIRR Correspondence with U.S.A.I.D.
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Series XVIII Assessment of IIRR Program, 1977-1989
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Series XIX Printed Materials
Note: IIRR brochures, annual reports, and other publicity publications
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Series XX Financial Records
Note: Financial records kept by J.E. Morris, and correspondence, ACCMEM, ICMEM, IMEM
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Series XXI Blueprints of IIRR & PRRM Buildings
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Series XXII Publications re. MEM In China
Note: Publications on Yen Yangchu and the Mass Education Movement in Chinese
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Series XXIII Blueprints, Maps, Art, Scrapbooks, and Memorabilia
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Series XXIV: Audio Visual Materials, 1926-2002
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Subject Files
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Manuscripts
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Administrative Papers
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Photographs
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Archived Web Site, 2013-present
Using the Collection
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
The collection is located off-site, except for cataloged correspondence, oversize materials and acetate disks. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.This collection has no restrictions.
Unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are available onsite via links in the container list. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); International Institute of Rural Reconstruction Records; Box and Folder; 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
Records: Source of acquisition--IIRR. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1993. Accession number--M-1993.
Records: Source of acquisition--IIRR. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--08/25/1994. Accession number--M-94-08-25.
Records: Source of acquisition--IIRR. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1999 & 2002.
Gift of the IIRR, 1993; 1994; 1999 & 2002.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Records Processed HR 05/12/1998.
Records Processed HR 05/20/1998.
Records Processed by Molly Monosky, Annie Grunow, Alexsander Gelfand, and Rebecca Farber 2005.
Revision Description
2009-07-07 File created.
2018-04-09 XML document instance updated by Catherine C. Ricciardi. Addition of archived web site.
2019-03-25 dsc-level genreform tags moved into scopecontent notes, before AS migration. kws
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Subject Headings
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the
Archival Collections Portal and through
CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries,
as well as ArchiveGRID,
a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
All links open new windows.
Genre/Form
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Adult education -- China |
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CLIO
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ArchiveGRID
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Adult education -- Philippines |
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CLIO
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ArchiveGRID
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Adult education teachers |
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CLIO
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Agricultural education -- China |
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CLIO
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ArchiveGRID
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Agricultural education -- Philippines |
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CLIO
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ArchiveGRID
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Agriculture teachers |
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CLIO
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Altschul, Frank, 1887-1981 |
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CLIO
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American Cooperating Committees |
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CLIO
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Area specialists |
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Astor, Brooke |
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Benton, William, 1900-1973 |
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Blaine, Anita McCormick |
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Blair, William McC., Jr. (William McCormick), 1916-2015 |
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Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986 |
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Buck, Pearl S (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 |
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Buckley, James Lane, 1923- |
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Chen, Cheng, 1898-1965 |
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CLIO
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Chen, Qizi |
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CLIO
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Chinese -- United States -- Societies, etc -- 20th century |
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CLIO
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Chinese Americans |
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CLIO
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ArchiveGRID
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College of Rural Reconstruction |
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CLIO
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Community development -- China |
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Community development -- Philippines |
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Davidson, Carter, 1905-1965 |
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Developing country specialists |
Portal
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CLIO
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Dewey, John, 1859-1952 |
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Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980 |
Portal
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Douglas, William O (William Orville), 1898-1980 |
Portal
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Economic assistance, American |
Portal
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CLIO
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Economic development -- China -- 20th century |
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CLIO
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ArchiveGRID
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Economic development -- Philippines -- 20th century |
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CLIO
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ArchiveGRID
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Economic development -- Taiwan |
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CLIO
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Economic development projects -- China |
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CLIO
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ArchiveGRID
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Economic development projects -- Philippines |
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Education -- China |
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Education -- Philippines |
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Educators |
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Field, Marshall, 1893-1956 |
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Filipinos |
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Fundamental education -- China |
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Fundamental education -- Philippines |
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Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966 |
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CLIO
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Hoffman, Paul G (Paul Gray), 1891-1974 |
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Hutchins, William J. (William James), 1871-1958 |
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Kaltenborn, H. v. (Hans), 1878-1965 |
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Koo, V. K. Wellington, 1888-1985 |
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Kuo, Ping Wen, 1880-1969 |
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Lasker, Mary |
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Lehman, Edith A. (Edith Altschul) |
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Lehman, Herbert H (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963 |
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Lobbyists |
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Lovett, Robert A (Robert Abercrombie), 1895-1986 |
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Lu, Zuofu, 1893-1952 |
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CLIO
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Marshall, George C (George Catlett), 1880-1959 |
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McCloy, John J (John Jay), 1895-1989 |
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Mellon, Paul |
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Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 |
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Moynihan, Daniel P (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003 |
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Myers, William Irving, 1891-1976 |
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Non-governmental organizations |
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Paley, William S (William Samuel), 1901-1990 |
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Penney, J. C (James Cash), 1875-1971 |
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Philanthropists |
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Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement |
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Pound, Roscoe, 1870-1964 |
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Public health -- China -- 20th century |
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Public health -- Philippines -- 20th century |
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Public health personnel |
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Reading teachers |
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Reagan, Ronald |
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Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- China |
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Reid, Whitelaw, 1913-2009 |
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Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970 |
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Rockefeller, David, 1915-2017 |
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Rockefeller, John D., III (John Davison), 1906-1978 |
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Rockefeller, John D., Jr (John Davison), 1874-1960 |
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Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 |
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Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 |
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Rosin, Axel, 1907-2007 |
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Scherman, Harry, 1887-1969 |
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Schultz, Theodore W (Theodore William), 1902-1998 |
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Sinologists |
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Skouras, Spyros Panagiotes, 1893-1971 |
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Songs |
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Soong, T. V (Tzu-wen), 1894-1971 |
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Stevenson, Adlai E (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 |
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Swope, Gerard, 1872-1957 |
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Taft, Charles P (Charles Phelps), 1897-1983 |
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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 |
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Unesco |
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United States (Title of work: China Aid Act of 1948.) |
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United States. Agency for International Development |
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Vanderbilt, William H (William Henry), 1901-1981 |
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Wallace, DeWitt, 1889-1981 |
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Wallace, Henry A (Henry Agard), 1888-1965 |
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Wallace, Lila Acheson, 1887-1984 |
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Walsh, Richard J., 1912- |
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Watson, Thomas John, 1874-1956 |
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Wilbur, Ray L (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949 |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- China |
Portal
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CLIO
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Xie, Fuya, 1892-1991 |
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CLIO
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Yen, Y. C. James, 1893-1990 |
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Zhang, Qun, 1889?- |
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Zhang, Zhizhong, 1890-1969 |
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Zhongguo nong cun fu xing lian he wei yuan hui |
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Zhonghua ping min jiao yu cu jin hui |
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Zhu, Jiahua, 1893-1963 |
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History / Biographical Note
Biographical / Historical
The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) was founded in 1960 to combat rural poverty worldwide. Its head and founder was Dr. Y.C. James Yen 晏陽初 (1980-1990). It deals with the problems of poverty, illiteracy, disease, and misgovernment in China, the Philippines, and other third world countries, and promotes American aid programs. Y.C. James Yen was born in 1893 in Sichuan Province, China. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, and later studied at Princeton University. During early experience as a Y.M.C.A. teacher in France among Chinese workers in 1919, Dr. Yen recognized the need for Chinese workers, traditionally a lower and undereducated class in their native country, to have basic reading and writing skills. He set about teaching them basic Chinese characters, enabling them to communicate with family members back home. Inspired by his success, he returned home to China. In 1923, he became the head of the Chinese National Association of the Mass Education Movement (later, the Chinese Mass Education Movement) and its fund raising arm, the American Cooperating Committee. Together these organizations supported the College of Rural Reconstruction in China. During World War II, Yen returned to the US and organized the American-Chinese Cooperating Committee (later the American-Chionese Committee of the Mass Education Movement) to secure American support and funding for his educational efforts in China. His committee was responsible for the China Aid Act of 1948 (otherwise known as the "Jimmy Yen Act") and the creation of the Chinese-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction.
After China turned to communism, Dr. Yen turned his attentions to the Philippines and other, smaller, nations in need. He formed the International Committee of the Mass Education Movement, later known as both the International Mass Education Movement (IMEM) and Jimmy Yen's Rural Reconstruction Movement (JYRRM). These organizations merged into the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction in 1960. The IIRR headquarters in the Philippines acted as the driving force behind a number of smaller movements in other countries. These movements included the Colombia Rural Reconstruction Movement (CRRM, MCRR), the Guatemala Rural Reconstruction Movement (GRRM, MGRR), the Ghana Rural Reconstruction Movement (GhRRM), the Indian Rural Reconstruction Movement (IRRM), the Korean Rural Reconstruction Movement (KRRM), and the Thailand Rural Reconstruction Movement (TRRM) to name a few. Dr. Y.C. James Yen died in 1990. He was survived by his movement, which still has regional centers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America as well as its headquarters in the Philippines.
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