International Institute of Rural Reconstruction records, 1914-2018

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Series XXII Publications re. MEM In China

Note: Publications on Yen Yangchu and the Mass Education Movement in Chinese



Box 162 Biography of Yen Yangchu: James Yen and His Sixty Years of Struggle with, Rural Reconstruction for the Peasant People of the World. By Wu Hsiang-Hsiang, Shi Bao Publishing House, Taipei, Taiwan, August 1981


Box 162 Selected Works on Yen Yangchu. Edited by Solng Enrong, Published by Educational Research Publishing company, Beijing, China, November 1989


Box 162 Anthology of Yen Yangchu's Writings. Volume I, II and III. Edited by Song Enrong, Published by Hunan Educational Publishing Company, Hunan China, August 1989 April 1982 and May 1993, August 1989, April 1982, May 1993


Box 162 Research on Educational Thought of Yen Yangchu, Volume I and II., Edited by Wugang Teachers Trainng School, Published by Hunan Publishing Co., August 1988 and May 1990, August 1988, May 1990


Box 162 Anthology of Works by Dr. Yen and the Mass Education Movements. , Edited by Zhan Yi-Zhi., Published by Sichuan Educational Publishing Co., March1990


Box 162 Education and Social Development. Papers presented at the International, Conference on Dr. Y. C. James Yen. Edited by song Enrong, Published by Hunan Educational Publishing Co., October 1991


Box 162 A Survey of Rural Industries in Dingxian. By Zhang Shiwen, Published by Sichuan Minzu Publication Co., December 1990. (Note: Originally published in 1936)


Box 162 Selected Historical Documents of Hobei Province (on Y.C. James Yen and, the Mass Education Movement). , Edited by Research Committee of Historical Documents, Political Consultative Committee of Hebei. (Published by People's Publications Co. of Hebei, Shijianzhuang, 1983)


Box 162 A Memoir of Eighty Years. By Chen Kai Sze, Published by Author, 1986


Box 162 Yen Yanchu: Educator of the Common People. Edited by the Historical and Literary Documents Committee of Sichuan and Baxian Political Consultative Commission Published by Sichuan University Publications Assn., August 1990


Box 162 Yen Yanchu and Ding Xian Mass Education. Edited by Li Jidong and Li Zhihui, Hebei Education Publishing Association, May 1990


Box 162 Meeting with Mao Zedong in 1938 by Du Shuchu from "Selected Works on Yen Yangchu." Edited by Song Enrong, Published by Educational Research Publishing Company, Beijing, China, November 1989, 1938, November 1989



Box 164 International Institute of Rural Reconstruction. Background Relevance and Program, International Mass Education Movement, February1962


Box 164 International Institute of Rural Reconstruction ..Background Relevance and Program, International Mass Education Movement, Reissued in 1983.


Box 164 Ditto in Spanish, "Institute Internacional de Reconstruccion Rural-Antecedents Objectiveos y Programa", August 1964


Box 164 Pearl S. Buck, Tell the People, 1959


Box 164 Pearl S. Buck, Tell the People, December 1964 Note: In Spanish-"Que El Mundo Lo Sepa", December 1964


Box 164 Y. C. James Yen, The Ting Hsien Experiment, 1934


Box 164 Y. C. James Yen, The Ting Hsien Experiment, 1934 [Reissued 1975], 1934


Box 164 Y. C. James Yen, The Ting Hsien Experiment, 1934 [Reissued by IIRR in the Philippines, 1975], 1934


Box 164 Y. C. James Yen, Rural Reconstruction and Development-, A Manual for Field Workers, 1967


Box 164 James B. May field, Go to the People: Releasing the Rural Poor Through the People's School System, Kumarian Press, 1986



Box 165 Y.C. James Yen, John C. Kiang, 1976.


Box 165 Ping-sheng Yen Chin, The Natioanl People's Congress Invites us to Visit China, 1985.


Box 165 Sidney D. Gamble, Ting Hsien: A North China Rural Community, Institute of Public Relations, New York, 1954


Box 165 Sidney D. Gamble, Ting Hsien: A North China Rural Community, Institute of Public Relations, New York, 1954, [Reissued by Stanford University Press in 1968], 1954


Box 165 Y. C. James Yen's Thought on Mass Education and Rural Reconstruction. China and Beyond. An International Retrospective. Edited by Martha McKee Keehn International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, New York City, 1993



Box 166 Charles W. Hayford To the People: James Yen and Village China Columbia University Press, 1990


Box 166 Congressional Record. Proceedings and Debates of the 101st Congress Second Session. Vol. 136 Washington, D.C., April 24, 1990 (Note: See p. E1197-A Tribute to Dr. Yen), April 24, 1990


Box 166 List of Writings of Dr. Y.C. James Yen, cited in Charles W. Hayford's book-To the People James Yen and Village China


Box 166 Robert M. Bartlett "Yang-Chu James Yen, 90" An article written Published by Sino-American Relations


Box 166 James C. Thomson, Jr. About Dr. Yen-Pages taken from the book-While China Faced West: American Reformers in Nationalist China, 1928-1937 Harvard University Press, 1969, 1928-1937, 1969


Box 166 The Mind and the Will to Do


Box 166 Zhong He Monthly


Box 166 Que El Mondo Lo Sepa