Guide to the Knight Biggerstaff Papers,
1923-2000

Collection Number: 14-17-629

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
M. Hopson et al.
Date completed:
August 1980
EAD encoding:
Daniel J. Keeley, October 2002

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Knight Biggerstaff papers, 1923-2000, 1944-1961 (bulk).
Collection Number:
14-17-629
Creator:
Knight Biggerstaff, 1906-
Quantity:
12.7 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, memoranda, notes.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes materials relating to Knight Biggerstaff's career as a scholar of Chinese history, including extensive records of travel in the Far East, and to his term as chair of the History Department at Cornell University.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Chinese History, 1927-1978; Chairman, Department of Far Eastern Studies, Cornell University, 1946-1956; Chairman, History Department, Cornell University, 1956-1965.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes administrative correspondence of both departments and correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, notes, and other items concerning his participation in the American Council of Learned Societies and its Committee on Far Eastern Studies, American Historical Association, Association for Asian Studies, and Institute of Pacific Relations, of which he was a trustee of the American branch; some of the IPR records relate to the McCarran Subcommittee investigation of that organization. Professor Biggerstaff's handwritten notes (1927-1933) from Harvard University classes and lecture notes for his own Cornell classes and for the Army Special Training Program at Cornell (1944), all relating to the Far East. Also, letters to Biggerstaff and drafts of some of Biggerstaff's outgoing correspondence with fellow China scholars, students and personal friends; letters of recommendation for former students and colleagues; documentation of Biggerstaff's travel and study abroad (China and Europe); reviews of colleagues' books for historical publications; and material describing his security hearings in 1954 including Biggerstaff's statement in defense of his own loyalty as well as statements for many colleagues (c.1954). Frequent correspondents include China scholars such as: George H. Blakeslee, O. Edmund Clubb, John K. Fairbank, George McTuran Kahin, and Ssu-yü Teng.
Also, letters, 1961-1991, from Dr. Biggerstaff to Dr. Arun K. Dasgupta, a graduate student of his who returned to Calcutta, India and also taught in Jakarta, Indonesia. Includes personal, family, and professional news; also, Biggerstaff's letters from China (1945-49) and Camilla Biggerstaff's letters from China (1923-31).
These papers include correspondence to the Biggerstaff and drafts of some of Biggerstaff's outgoing correspondence with fellow China scholars, students, and personal friends; letters of recommendation for former students and colleagues; documentation of Biggerstaff's travel and study abroad (china and Europe); reviews of colleagues' books for historical publications; and material describing his security hearings in 1954 including Biggerstaff's statement in defense of correspondents include China scholars such as: George H. Blakeslee, O. Edmund Clubb, John K. Fairbank, George McT. Kahin, and Ssu-yu Teng.
Material is arranged alphabetically within 2 or 3 year periods, as Professor Biggerstaff left the papers. These periods often correspond roughly to inclusive dates. Series indicate original groupings of material by box. Althouhg the material remains in the same overall order as Professor Biggerstaff arranged it, some groups of material were consolidated or divided into different folders to facilitate storage. The alphabetical order is not always apparent but has been maintained wherever possible.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Biggerstaff, Knight, 1906-
Biggerstaff, Camilla.
Blakeslee, George Hubbard, 1871-1954.
Clubb, O. Edmund (Oliver Edmund), 1901-
Dasgupta, Arun Kumar, 1925-
Fairbank, John King, 1907-
Kahin, George McTurnan.
Teng, Ssu-yü, 1906-
American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Far Eastern Studies.
American Historical Association.
Association for Asian Studies.
Cornell University. Dept. of History.
Cornell University. Army Special Training Program.
Cornell University. Dept. of Far Eastern Studies.
Harvard University.
Institute of Pacific Relations.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.

Places:
China--Description and travel.
China--Study and teaching.
United States--History--1945-1953.
United States--History--1953-1961.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Restrictions on use:
Boxes 1-3restricted to permission of donor.
Cite As:
Knight Biggerstaff papers, #14-17-629. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SERIES LIST

Series I. History Department files Boxes 1-3
Series II. 1928-1931, First three years in China (living in Peking), first year at the North China Union Language School learning Chinese, next two years at Yenching University (on a Harvard-Yenching Institute fellowship) pursuing graduate studies in Chinese history; travel in other parts of China, briefly in Korea Box 4
Series III. 1931-1934, Graduate study at Harvard, completing Ph.D. Boxes 4-5
Series IV. 1934-1936, Post-doctoral study in Peking on Social Science Research Council fellowship; published An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works with S.Y. Teng Box 5
Series V. 1936-1938, Instructor in Chinese history and language at the University of Washington Boxes 5-6
Series VI. 1938-1940, First two years at Cornell as Assistant Professor of Chinese History Boxes 6-7
Series VII. 1940-1942, At Cornell, including 1942 Summer Workshop on Far East, British Commonwealth and Latin America and 1941 American Council of Learned Societies, Chinese and Japanese Language Courses Boxes 7-8
Series VIII. 1938-1940, Records as Secretary of Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies Boxes 8-9
Series IX. 1940-1941, Records as Secretary of Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies Boxes 9-10
Series X. 1942-1944, War Years at Cornell, including material of Committee on Asiatic Studies of ACLS. All material on the Chinese Army Specialized Training Program Biggerstaff directed is filed with other ASTP records in University Archives Boxes 10-11
Series XI. 1944-1946, Six months in Division of Territorial Studies, U.S. Dept. of State and one year as Chinese Secretary of U.S. Embassy Chungking Box 11
Series XII. 1946-1947, From June 1946, return to Cornell; most correspondence as Chairman of Department of Chinese (later, Far Eastern and still later, Asian) Studies is in that department's files Boxes 11-12
Series XIII. 1947-1949, Includes material regarding an American Historical Association Program Committee, the Committee on Asiatic Studies of the American Council on Education, the San Diego American Institute of Pacific Relations Conference and a research trip to Nanking, China; correspondence relating to ACLS Committee on Far Eastern Studies mainly in ACLS files Box 12
Series XIV. 1949-1951, Back at Cornell; includes material on Nanking trip with unedited copy of diary letters Boxes 12-13
Series XV. 1951-1955, Miscellaneous correspondence, including David Rowe attack Boxes 13-14
Series XVI. 1954, Security hearing to appeal denial of security clearance by Eastern Industrial Personnel Security Board for work with Operations Research Office, a research agency for Johns Hopkins University Box 15
Series XVII. 1954, Security hearing documents Box 16
Series XVIII. 1955-1957, Cornell Department of History, related material for chairmanship (1956-1964) in that department's files Box 17
Series XIX. 1957-1960, Miscellaneous correspondence Boxes 17-18
Series XX. 1960-1963, Miscellaneous correspondence Boxes 18-19
Series XXI. 1963-1965, Includes 1963 sabbatical trip to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Europe Boxes 19-20
Series XXII. 1965-1968, Includes Wells College Long-Range Planning Committee; correspondence as President of the Association for Asian Studies sent to Association headquarters in Ann Arbor Boxes 20-21
Series XXIII. 1968-1972, Miscellaneous correspondence up to time of retirement Boxes 21-22
Series XXIV. 1972-1978, Post-retirement correspondence Boxes 22-24
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Series I. History Department files
A.S.T.P. 1944 (Army Special Training Program)
Box 1 Folder 1
I.P.R. Public Relations Material
 Box 1 Folder 2
I.P.R. Correspondence 1947-1948
Box 1 Folder 3
I.P.R. Fall 1947 to July 1948
Box 1 Folder 4
I.P.R. July 1949 to July 1951
Box 1 Folder 5
I.P.R. Mar. 1952 to July 1953
Box 1 Folder 6
I.P.R. Mar. 1952 to July 1953
Box 1 Folder 7
I.P.R. July to Dec. 1951
Box 1 Folder 8
I.P.R. 1953
Box 1 Folder 9
I.P.R. 1954 to 1958
Box 1 Folder 10
I.P.R. 1954 to 1958
Box 1 Folder 11
I.P.R. Final
 Box 1 Folder 12
Leonard Wilson
 Box 2 Folder 13
Clifford Maier
 Box 2 Folder 14
R. L. Rouse
 Box 2 Folder 15
Marc Szeftel
 Box 2 Folder 16
Warren Susman
 Box 2 Folder 17
Correspondence re: Simon Substitute
 Box 2 Folder 18
Summer School 1957-1961
Box 2 Folder 19
Russian History Substitute, Spring 1960
Box 2 Folder 20
National Council on Asian Affairs
 Box 2 Folder 21
Medieval History Position 1952-1953
Box 2 Folder 22
Letters re: T. E. Mommsen
 Box 2 Folder 23
Theodor E. Mommsen
 Box 2 Folder 24
Wolfgang Mommsen
 Box 2 Folder 25
Medieval History Replacement
 Box 2 Folder 26
David MacKenzie
 Box 2 Folder 27
Mario Attilio Levy
 Box 2 Folder 28
Wolf Laistner
 Box 2 Folder 29
M. G. Hutt
 Box 2 Folder 30
Thomas Helde
 Box 2 Folder 31
Robert Howes
 Box 2 Folder 32
John Hale
 Box 2 Folder 33
Humanities Council Visitors, 1959-1960
Box 2 Folder 34
Louis Gottschalk
 Box 2 Folder 35
Ford Applications for China Program
 Box 2 Folder 36
Association for Asian Studies - Nomination Committee 1959-1961
Box 2 Folder 37
Research Club Membership
 Box 2 Folder 38
Society of Fellows in the Humanities
 Box 2 Folder 39
Joint Committee on Contemporary China
 Box 2 Folder 40
American Historical Association
 Box 2 Folder 41
Association for Asian Studies, Regional Meeting Committee
Box 2 Folder 42
American Historical Association, Program Committee
Box 2 Folder 43
American Historical Association, Program Committee
Box 2 Folder 44
American Historical Association, Program Committee
Box 2 Folder 45
Inter-university Fellowships in Chinese
 Box 2 Folder 46
American Council of Learned Societies
 Box 2 Folder 47
American Council of Learned Societies
 Box 2 Folder 48
American Council of Learned Societies
 Box 2 Folder 49
A.C.L.S. Committees, Apr. to Dec. 1948
Box 2 Folder 50
A.C.L.S. Committee on Far Eastern Studies
 Box 2 Folder 51
A.C.L.S. Committee on Far Eastern Studies
 Box 2 Folder 52
Far Eastern Studies 951
 Box 3 Folder 53
Far Eastern Studies 951
 Box 3 Folder 54
Far Eastern Studies 951
 Box 3 Folder 55
Far Eastern Studies 951-952
 Box 3 Folder 56
Far Eastern Studies 951-952
 Box 3 Folder 57
Far Eastern Studies 951-952
 Box 3 Folder 58
Far Eastern Studies 201
 Box 3 Folder 59
Far Eastern Studies 201
 Box 3 Folder 60
Far Eastern Studies 201
 Box 3 Folder 61
Richard Face
 Box 3 Folder 62
Robert L. Daniel
 Box 3 Folder 63
Conference on Asian History
 Box 3 Folder 64
Arts College Advistory Council
 Box 3 Folder 65
Ad Hoc Library Committee
 Box 3 Folder 66
Selig Adler
 Box 3 Folder 67
Medieval and Renaisance Studies
 Box 3 Folder 68
Military History - Cooperation with Department of Military Science and Tactics
Box 3 Folder 69
History Teaching Applications 1956-1957
Box 3 Folder 70
History Teaching Applications 1956-1957
Box 3 Folder 71
Biggerstaff Memos
 Box 3 Folder 72
Geoffrey Bruun
 Box 3 Folder 73
Honors Program 1947-1956
Box 3 Folder 74
Departmental, Colleagues, Biographical 1944-1956
Box 3 Folder 75
Dean De Kiewiet Departmenal
 Box 3 Folder 76
Departmental Recommendations 1951
Box 3 Folder 77
Departmental - Summer 1950
 Box 3 Folder 78
Correspondence with Dean - thru Spring Term 1951
Box 3 Folder 79
Correspondence with Dean's Office
 Box 3 Folder 80
Budget 1950 - 1956
Box 3 Folder 81
Budget 1936 - 1950
Box 3 Folder 82
Miscellaneous Correspondence
 Box 3 Folder 83
Correspondence Dean - Arts 1946-1951
Box 3 Folder 84
Miscellaneous Pieces
Chinese Philosophy - L.C. Porter
 Box 3
Seminar on Far Eastern Studies - Hummel, Porter Waren, Iseinda
Box 3
Diplomatic History of the Far East to 1915 - Hornbeck
Box 3
Lecture Notes: History 15, 18 A, B
 Box 3
Lecture Notes: History 15
 Box 3
Series II. First three years in China (living in Peking), first year at the North China Union Language School learning Chinese, next two years at Yenching University (on a Harvard-Yenching Institute fellowship) pursuing graduate studies in Chinese history; travel in other parts of China, briefly in Korea
Chinese Manuscript and Calling Cards 1928-1931 .
Box 4 Folder 1
Correspondence (A): Manchurian Trip June 13-July 16, 1929; Shantung Trip January 1931 ; Shanghai-Shensi Trip May 1930 .
Box 4 Folder 2
Correspondence (B): Yangtse Valley Trip April-May 1931 ; family correspondence 1928-1931 . [It appears the correspondence about these trips was a sort of journal kept for documentation of graduate work and study.]
Box 4 Folder 3
Chinese Study (C): 1929-1930 documents Biggerstaff's fellowship at Yenching University and University and University of Nanking Institute of Chinese Cultural Studies.
Box 4 Folder 4
Correspondence (C-D): 1928-1931
Box 4 Folder 5
Correspondence (E-F): 1928-1931
Box 4 Folder 6
Correspondence (G): 1929 , 1930 , and n.d.
Box 4 Folder 7
Correspondence (H-J): 1929-1931
Box 4 Folder 8
Correspondence (K-L): 1928-1931
Box 4 Folder 9
Correspondence (M): 1928-1930 , and n.d.
Box 4 Folder 10
Correspondence (N-O): 1928-1930
Box 4 Folder 11
Correspondence (R-S): 1928-1931
Box 4 Folder 12
Correspondence (T-W): 1927-1930
Box 4 Folder 13
Correspondence (Y-Z): 1928 and n.d.
Box 4 Folder 14
Chinese coin - unidentified
 Box 4 Folder 15
Series III. 1931-1934, Graduate study at Harvard, completing Ph.D.
Correspondence (A): 1931-1934
Box 4 Folder 16
Correspondence (B): 1931-1933
Box 4 Folder 17
Correspondence (C): 1931-1934
Box 4 Folder 18
Correspondence (D-F): 1932-1933
Box 4 Folder 19
Correspondence (H-J): 1931-1933
Box 4 Folder 20
Correspondence (K-L): 1932-1933
Box 4 Folder 21
Correspondence (M-O): 1931-1934
Box 5 Folder 1
Correspondence (P-S): 1932-1934 Penfield Scholarship application, 1933
Box 5 Folder 2
Correspondence (T-Z): 1931-1933 Biggerstaff's review of The Mind of China by Edwin Harvey.
Box 5 Folder 3
Manuscripts: 1934 and n.d. includes Chinese lottery ticket, Chinese menu, and program from Harvard Commencement (PhD)
Box 5 Folder 4
Series IV. 1934-1936, Post-doctoral study in Peking on Social Science Research Council fellowship. Published An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works with S. Y. Teng
Correspondence (A): 1936 concerning American Historical Review and American Council of Learned Societies.
Box 5 Folder 5
Correspondence (B): 1933-1936
Box 5 Folder 6
Correspondence (B): 1934-1936
Box 5 Folder 7
Correspondence (C-F): 1935-1938
Box 5 Folder 8
Correspondence (G-J): 1935-1936 includes Chinese manuscript
Box 5 Folder 9
Correspondence (K-O): 1935-1936
Box 5 Folder 10
Correspondence (P-R): 1934-1936
Box 5 Folder 11
Correspondence (S): 1934-1936 includes Social Science Research Council
Box 5 Folder 12
Correspondence (S): 1933-1936 includes Social Science Research Council
Box 5 Folder 13
Correspondence (T-V): 1934-1936 includes Chinese manuscript
Box 5 Folder 14
Correspondence (W-Z): 1935-1936 includes manuscripts: "American Students in China," "The Official Chinese Attitude toward the Burlingame Mission," and notes for speech.
Box 5 Folder 15
Japan Trip: 1935 calling cards
Box 5 Folder 16
Peking cards: n.d. calling cards
 Box 5 Folder 17
Series V. 1936-1938, Instructor in Chinese history and language at the University of Washington
Memorabilia and manuscript (A): 1933-1935 , n.d. includes manuscript "Yenching and its Possibilities".
Box 5 Folder 18
Correspondence (A-B): 1936-1938 includes program for Fifteenth Session of the Institute of World Affairs, 1937 .
Box 5 Folder 19
Correspondence (C): 1936-1938
Box 5 Folder 20
Correspondence (D): 1936-1938
Box 5 Folder 21
Correspondence (E-F): 1936-1938
Box 5 Folder 1
Correspondence (G): 1936-1938
Box 6 Folder 2
Correspondence (H-L): 1936-1938
Box 6 Folder 3
Correspondence (M-O): 1936-1938
Box 6 Folder 4
Correspondence (P): 1936-1938 includes manuscript "The First Chinese Mission of Investigation Sent to Europe"
Box 6 Folder 5
Correspondence (P-Q): 1936-1938
Box 6 Folder 6
Correspondence (R-V): 1936-1938 includes S. Y. Teng
Box 6 Folder 7
Correspondence (W-Z): 1936-1938 includes resignation from University of Washington.
Box 6 Folder 8
Correspondence: 1937 Biggerstaff to wife Camilla
Box 6 Folder 9
Correspondence: 1936 Biggerstaff to wife Camilla
Box 6 Folder 10
Correspondence: 1937 , 1938 Camilla to Knight; Clipping: 1929 ; Lease for apartment in Seattle
Box 6 Folder 11
Series VI. 1938-1940, First two years at Cornell as Assistant professor of Chinese History
Correspondence: 1938 concerns original appointment as assistant professor of Chinese history
Box 6 Folder 12
Correspondence (A-B): 1938-1940
Box 6 Folder 13
Correspondence (C): 1938-1940
Box 6 Folder 14
Correspondence (C): 1938-1940 includes clippings about development of Far Eastern Studies at Cornell
Box 6 Folder 15
Correspondence (D-F): 1938-1940
Box 6 Folder 16
Correspondence (G): 1938-1940
Box 6 Folder 17
Correspondence (G): 1938-1940
Box 7 Folder 1
Correspondence (H-J): 1938-1940
Box 7 Folder 2
Correspondence (K-L): 1938-1940
Box 7 Folder 3
Correspondence (M-O): 1938-1940
Box 7 Folder 4
Correspondence (P-Q): 1938-1940 includes death of Dr. Robert T. Pollard
Box 7 Folder 5
Correspondence (R-S): 1938-1940 includes paper in Chinese
Box 7 Folder 6
Correspondence (T-V): 1938-1940
Box 7 Folder 7
Correspondence (W-Z): 1938-1940
Box 7 Folder 8
Manuscripts and notes: "Some Notes on the Tung-hua Lu and the Shih-lu"
Box 7 Folder 9
Manuscripts and notes: annotated version of "Some Notes on the Tung-hua Lu and the Shih-lu"
Box 7 Folder 10
Series VII. 1940-1942, At Cornell, including 1942 Summer Workshop on Far East, British Commonwealth and Latin America and 1941 American Council of Learned Societies Chinese and Japanese Language Courses.
University Matters: 1938-1942
Box 7 Folder 11
Correspondence: 1942 concerns 1942 Workshop on Latin America, the Far East, and the British Commonwealth
Box 7 Folder 12-13
Notes: ca. 1936
Box 7 Folder 14
Notes: n.d.
 Box 7 Folder 15
Correspondence (A-B): 1940-1942 includes manuscript "Archaeological Researches in China 1923-1924 "
Box 7 Folder 16
Correspondence (C-D): 1940-1942
Box 8 Folder 1
Correspondence (E-F): 1940-1942
Box 8 Folder 2
Correspondence (G): 1940-1942
Box 8 Folder 3
Correspondence (H-J): 1939-1942
Box 8 Folder 4
Correspondence (K-M): 1941-1942
Box 8 Folder 5
Correspondence (N-S): 1940-1942
Box 8 Folder 6
Correspondence (T-V): 1941-1942
Box 8 Folder 7
Correspondence (W): 1940-1942
Box 8 Folder 8
Manuscripts: 1939 , n.d. "The Chinese Joint-Family: Its Role and Recent Trends," "A Reappraisal of the Far Eastern Policy of the United States"
Box 8 Folder 9
Manuscripts: 1939-1942 "Anson Burlingame's Instructions from the Chinese Foreign Office," "The 'Right of Rebellion' in China"
Box 8 Folder 10
Book Orders 1936-1941 checks, receipts, correspondence and orders
Box 8 Folder 11
Series VIII. 1938-1940, Records as Secretary of Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies.
New York Meeting: 1940 Annual Meeting of the Committee on Chinese and Japanese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies October 1940
Box 8 Folder 12
ACLS Committee on Chinese Studies report on activities, 1940
Box 8 Folder 13
Correspondence, Minutes: 1940 executive committee of American Council of Learned Societies meeting minutes, resumes of applicants for grants
Box 8 Folder 14
Correspondence 1939-1940
Box 8 Folder 15
Y. R. Chao: 1940 correspondence describes Chao's studies, includes manuscript "Proposals for Study of 'General Chinese'" by G. A. Kennedy of Yale
Box 8 Folder 16
Correspondence: 1939 concerns Index to Oriental Art proposed by Helen E. Fernald
Box 8 Folder 17
1940 Institute describes arrangement for Far Eastern Institute sponsored by Harvard Summer School, Harvard- Yenching Institute and American Council of Learned Societies
Box 8 Folder 18-20
Correspondence regarding Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies, February 1937 -September 1939 , much concerns fellowship applications.
Box 8 Folder 21
Correspondence: May-Sept. 1939
Box 9 Folder 1
Correspondence: Dec. 1938 -May 1939
Box 9 Folder 2
Correspondence: Sept.-Nov. 1938
Box 9 Folder 3
Correspondence: June-Sept. 1938
Box 9 Folder 4
Correspondence: Jan.-May 1938
Box 9 Folder 5
Correspondence: Dec. 1937 (April 1936 , Nov. 1937 )
Box 9 Folder 6
Correspondence: Oct.-Nov. 1937
Box 9 Folder 7
Correspondence: Feb.-Sept. 1937
Box 9 Folder 8
Series IX. 1940-1941, Records as Secretary of Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies
Correspondence: 1941
Box 9 Folder 9
Annual Committee Meeting: October 1941 reports, minutes, and correspondence
Box 9 Folder 10
Conference of Far Eastern Studies: 1940 , 1941
Box 9 Folder 11
Correspondence: 1941 includes ACLS and Far Eastern Quarterly
Box 9 Folder 12
Correspondence 1940-1941 committee activities
Box 9 Folder 13-14
Correspondence: 1940-1941 committee activities including ACLS
Box 9 Folder 15
1941 Language Institute correspondence, announcements, financial records, and reports describe the 1941 Chinese and Japanese Language Institute at Cornell sponsored by ACLS and Cornell Summer Session
Box 9 Folder 16
1941 Language Institute correspondence, announcements, financial records, and reports describe the 1941 Chinese and Japanese Language Institute at Cornell sponsored by ACLS and Cornell Summer Session
Box 10 Folder 1-4
Series X. 1942-1944, War years at Cornell, including material on Committee on Asiatic Studies of ACLS. All material on the Chinese Army Specialized Training Program Biggerstaff directed is filed with other ASTP records in University Archives.
Correspondence (A): 1942-1944 includes development of curricula for teaching about Far East for Committee on Asiatic Studies in American Education
Box 10 Folder 5
Correspondence (A): 1942-1943 Committee on Asiatic Studies in American Education, includes reports
Box 10 Folder 6
Correspondence, reports (A): 1942-1944 Committee on Asiatic Studies in American Education
Box 10 Folder 7
Correspondence, Book Reviews (B): 1937-1938 , 1940-1943
Box 10 Folder 8
Correspondence (C): 1942-1944
Box 10 Folder 9
Correspondence (C): 1939-1944
Box 10 Folder 10
Correspondence (D-F): 1942-1944
Box 10 Folder 11
Correspondence (G): 1943-1944
Box 10 Folder 12
Correspondence (H-L): 1942-1944
Box 10 Folder 13
Correspondence (M-R): 1943-1944 includes armed services' attempts to recruit Biggerstaff for service in China
Box 10 Folder 14
Correspondence (S): 1942-1944
Box 11 Folder 1
Correspondence (T-V): 1942-1944
Box 11 Folder 2
Manuscript (W): "The Westward Migration of the Chinese" includes notes and cover letter indicating publications to which it was submitted
Box 11 Folder 3
Notes and correspondence: 1937-1939 , 1944 includes biographical sketches of famous Chinese people
Box 11 Folder 4
Correspondence: 1936-1940 includes notes on "The Place of the Far East in the General History Curriculum"
Box 11 Folder 5
Series XI. 1944-1946, Six months in Division of Territorial Studies, U.S. Dept. of State and one year as Chinese Secretary of U.S. Embassy Chungking.
Passports of Biggerstaff and wife, Camilla, includes copy of telegram
Box 11 Folder 6
Correspondence (A): 1944-1946 includes manuscript "The Value of Far Eastern Area Studies for Civilian Undergraduates and Specialists"
Box 11 Folder 7
Correspondence (B-C): 1938-1946 includes correspondence with Cornell U. Press regarding Biggerstaff's publication of China: Revolutionary Changes in an Ancient Civilization and regarding Biggerstaff's status on Cornell faculty
Box 11 Folder 8
Correspondence (D-G): 1944-1946 includes Biggerstaff's appointment as Attache in the American Foreign Service Auxiliary
Box 11 Folder 9
Correspondence (H-L): 1944-1946
Box 11 Folder 10
Correspondence (M-S): 1944-1946 includes personal history statement
Box 11 Folder 11
Correspondence (S): 1942-1945
Box 11 Folder 12
Correspondence (T-Z): 1944-1946 includes outline for possible book
Box 11 Folder 13
Series XII. 1946-1947, From June 1946, return to Cornell. Most correspondence as Chairman of Department of Chinese (later, Far Eastern and still later, Asian) Studies is in that department's files.
Correspondence and Book Review: 1946-1947 include description of Biggerstaff's various faculty appointments at Cornell
Box 11 Folder 14
Correspondence (A-D): 1946-1947
Box 11 Folder 15
Correspondence (E-F): 1946-1947
Box 11 Folder 16
Correspondence (G-J): 1946-1947
Box 11 Folder 17
Correspondence (K-Q): 1946-1947 includes material on celebration of Princeton Bicentennial
Box 11 Folder 18
Correspondence (R-V): 1946-1947
Box 12 Folder 1
Correspondence (W-Z): 1946-1947
Box 12 Folder 2
Series XIII. 1947-1949, Includes material regarding an American Historical Association Program Committee, the Committee on Asiatic Studies of the American Council on Education, the San Diego American Institute of Pacific Relations Conference and a research trip to Nanking, China. Correspondence relating to ACLS Committee on Far Eastern Studies mainly in ACLS files.
Correspondence: 1947-1948 includes research and publication plans
Box 12 Folder 3
Correspondence: 1947-1948 includes Committee on Documentary Reproduction of the American Historical Association and Committee on International Education of American Council on Education
Box 12 Folder 4
Correspondence: 1948-1949
Box 12 Folder 5
Correspondence: 1947-1948
Box 12 Folder 6
Book Reviews: 1947-1948
Box 12 Folder 7
Book Reviews, Speeches: 1944 , 1946-1947 , 1949 includes Biggerstaff's draft card and a card in Chinese
Box 12 Folder 8
Correspondence (A-B): 1947-1950
Box 12 Folder 9
Correspondence (C-D): 1947-1949
Box 12 Folder 10
Correspondence (E-F): 1948-1949 includes applications for grants to study in China
Box 12 Folder 11
Correspondence (G-J): 1947-1950
Box 12 Folder 12
Correspondence (K-M): 1947-1949 includes substantial correspondence with and concerning John MacDonald
Box 12 Folder 13
Correspondence (N-R): 1947-1949
Box 12 Folder 14
Correspondence (S): 1947-1949 includes conference on The Far East and the United States sponsored by The Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Syracuse U.)
Box 12 Folder 15
Correspondence (T-Z): 1948-1949
Box 12 Folder 16
Series XIV. 1949-1951, Back at Cornell, includes material on Nanking trip with unedited copy of diary letters.
Travel Documents, correspondence: 1949-1951 includes correspondence at time of Biggerstaff's mother's death
Box 12 Folder 17
Biggerstaff Diary Letter from Nanking: April 23- July 30, 1949
Box 12 Folder 18
Correspondence (A-B): 1949-1951
Box 13 Folder 1
Correspondence (C): 1949-1951
Box 13 Folder 2
Correspondence (D,E-F): 1949-1951 includes support of Owen Lattimore against McCarthy accusations
Box 13 Folder 3
Correspondence (E-F): 1950-1951 includes Conference Board of Associated Research Councils, Committee on International Exchange of Persons
Box 13 Folder 4
Correspondence (G-J): 1949-1951
Box 13 Folder 5
Correspondence (K-L): 1949-1951
Box 13 Folder 6
Correspondence (M): 1949-1951
Box 13 Folder 7
Correspondence (N-R): 1949-1951
Box 13 Folder 8
Correspondence (S): 1950 includes work with State Dept. Division of Research on Far East
Box 13 Folder 9
Correspondence (S): 1949-1951
Box 13 Folder 10
Correspondence (T-V): 1950
Box 13 Folder 11
Correspondence (W): 1950-1951 includes manuscript by Alien S. Whiting "The Soviet Offer to China of 1919 "
Box 13 Folder 12
Correspondence (W): 1947-1951 includes extensive personal correspondence with J. B. Wood Realty Co.
Box 13 Folder 13
Correspondence (Y-Z): 1949-1951
Box 13 Folder 14
Correspondence 1949-1951 includes manuscript "The Nanking Press, April to September 1949 "
Box 13 Folder 15
Series XV. 1951-1955, Miscellaneous correspondence, including David Rowe attack.
"Rowe Row", Spring 1952 " clippings concern accusations made by David Rowe that Biggerstaff was a Communist sympathizer
Box 13 Folder 16
Programs: 1952 , 1954
Box 13 Folder 17
Correspondence (A): 1951-1955
Box 14 Folder 1
Correspondence (B): 1951-1955
Box 14 Folder 2
Correspondence (C): 1951-1955
Box 14 Folder 3
Correspondence (D-F): 1948-1949 , 1952-1955
Box 14 Folder 4
Correspondence (E-F): 1951-1955
Box 14 Folder 5
Correspondence (G): 1950-1955 includes notes on plan for Chinese Research Program
Box 14 Folder 6
Correspondence (H-J): 1951-1955 . includes: work with Harvard Committee for appointments in Departments of History and Government
Box 14 Folder 7
Correspondence (K-L): 1951-1955
Box 14 Folder 8
Correspondence (M): 1950-1954
Box 14 Folder 9
Correspondence (M): 1952-1955 includes proposed National Council on Asian affairs
Box 14 Folder 10
Correspondence (N-Q): 1951-1955
Box 14 Folder 11
Correspondence (R): 1952-1954
Box 14 Folder 12
Correspondence (S): 1952-1954
Box 14 Folder 13
Correspondence (T-V): 1950-1955
Box 14 Folder 14
Correspondence (W): 1951-1955
Box 14 Folder 15
Correspondence, Manuscript (Y-Z): 1953-1955 , n.d. includes rough draft of manuscript on Chinese Communists
Box 14 Folder 16
Series XVI. 1954, Security hearing to appeal denial of security clearance by Eastern Industrial Personnel Security Board for work with Operations Research Office, a research agency for Johns Hopkins University
Correspondence: 1954-1956 includes Leon Lipsoji, Biggerstaff's counsel for hearing
Box 15 Folder 1
Correspondence: 1951 , 1954-1955 includes Johns Hopkins University Operations Research Office
Box 15 Folder 2
Personal statement, record of memberships: 1954
Box 15 Folder 3
Activities, Questions; 1954 table of Biggerstaff's activities and people with whom he associated during each period of his life, sample questions and answers for witnesses at security hearing
Box 15 Folder 4
Appendix A of Personal Statement: 1954 "Development Of My Attitude Toward Events In The Far East, 1928-1954 "
Box 15 Folder 5
Correspondence, affidavits: 1954 includes requests for, and later, acknowledgements of, affidavits by friends supporting Biggerstaff's loyalty
Box 15 Folder 6-8
Affidavits: two representative statements
 Box 15 Folder 9
Correspondence with Leon Lipson: 1954-1956
Box 15 Folder 10
Correspondence with Leon Lipson: 1954
Box 15 Folder 11
Correspondence with John MacDonald: 1954
Box 15 Folder 12
Notes: 1954 includes notes on people who wrote affidavits
Box 15 Folder 13
Clippings, Notes: c. 1946-1950 describe Biggerstaff's assessment of Communist China
Box 15 Folder 14
Notes: 1941 , 1946-1948
Box 15 Folder 15
Clippings, notes: 1949-1952
Box 15 Folder 16
Series XVII. 1954, Security hearing documents
Transcript: "Hearing of Dr. Eugene Knight Biggerstaff" 1954 before Eastern Industrial Personnel Security Board
Box 16 Folder 1
Manuscripts "Material Submitted to the Eastern Industrial Security Board Appeal Division on behalf of Knight Biggerstaff" 1954
Box 16 Folder 2
Series XVIII. 1955-1957, Cornell department of history, related material for chairmanship (1956-1964) in that department's files.
Correspondence (A-B): 1955-1957
Box 17 Folder 1
Correspondence (C): 1953-1957
Box 17 Folder 2
Correspondence (C): 1951 , 1953 , 1955-1957
Box 17 Folder 3
Correspondence (D): 1955-1957
Box 17 Folder 4
Correspondence (E-F): 1955-1957
Box 17 Folder 5
Correspondence (G): 1956-1957
Box 17 Folder 6
Correspondence (H-J): 1955-1957
Box 17 Folder 7
Correspondence (K-L) ; 1355-1957
 Box 17 Folder 8
Correspondence (M): 1955-1957
Box 17 Folder 9
Correspondence (N-O): 1955-1957
Box 17 Folder 10
Correspondence (P-R): 1954-1957
Box 17 Folder 11
Correspondence (S): 1955-1957
Box 17 Folder 12
Correspondence (T-V): 1955-1957
Box 17 Folder 13
Correspondence (W): 1955-1957
Box 17 Folder 14
Correspondence (Y-Z): 1955-1957
Box 17 Folder 15
Book Reviews, speeches: 1953-1955
Box 17 Folder 16
Speaking Engagements: 1951 , 1952 , 1955
Box 17 Folder 17
Series XIX. 1957-1960, Miscellaneous correspondence.
Correspondence (A): 1957-1960 includes correspondence in Chinese
Box 17 Folder 18
Correspondence (B): 1956-1960
Box 17 Folder 19
Correspondence (B): 1957-1960
Box 17 Folder 20
Correspondence (C): 1957-1959
Box 17 Folder 21
Correspondence (C): 1957-1960
Box 18 Folder 1
Correspondence (D-F): 1957-1960
Box 18 Folder 2
Correspondence (G): 1957-1960
Box 18 Folder 3
Correspondence (H-J): 1957-1960
Box 18 Folder 4
Correspondence (K-L): 1957-1960
Box 18 Folder 5-6
Correspondence CM): 1956-1960
Box 18 Folder 7
Correspondence (N-O): 1958-1959
Box 18 Folder 8
Correspondence (P-Q): 1957-1960
Box 18 Folder 9
Correspondence (R-S): 1957-1959
Box 18 Folder 10
Correspondence (S): 1957-1960
Box 18 Folder 11
Correspondence (T-V) - 1957-1960
Box 18 Folder 12
Correspondence (W): 1957-1960
Box 18 Folder 13
Correspondence (Y-Z): 1957-1960
Box 18 Folder 14
Series XX. 1960-1963, Miscellaneous correspondence
Overseers' Committee to Visit the Department of History, Harvard: 1957-1963 documents Biggerstaff's work as advisor to history dept.
Box 18 Folder 15
Correspondence (A): 1959-1963
Box 18 Folder 16
Correspondence (B): 1960-1963
Box 19 Folder 1
Correspondence (C): 1961-1962
Box 19 Folder 2
Correspondence (C): 1960-1963
Box 19 Folder 3
Correspondence (D): 1960-1962
Box 19 Folder 4
Correspondence (E-F): 1959-1962
Box 19 Folder 5
Correspondence (E-F): 1960-1962
Box 19 Folder 6
Correspondence (E-F): 1959-1963
Box 19 Folder 7
Correspondence (H-J): 1961-1963
Box 19 Folder 8
Correspondence (H-J): 1960-1962
Box 19 Folder 9
Correspondence (K-L): 1960-1963 includes manuscript by Donald Lach
Box 19 Folder 10
Correspondence (K-L): 1961-1962
Box 19 Folder 11
Correspondence (M): 1960-1962
Box 19 Folder 12
Correspondence (N-Q): 1960-1962
Box 19 Folder 13
Correspondence (R): 1960-1963
Box 19 Folder 14
Correspondence (S): 1960-1962
Box 19 Folder 15
Correspondence (T-V): 1960-1962
Box 19 Folder 16
Correspondence (W-Z): 1960-1963
Box 19 Folder 17
Series XXI. 1963-1965, Includes 1963 sabbatical trip to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Europe.
Calling Cards: 1963 Far East trip
Box 19 Folder 18
Menus, Invitations: 1963 Far East trip
Box 19 Folder 19
Correspondence (A): 1963-1964
Box 19 Folder 20
Correspondence (B): 1963-1965
Box 20 Folder 1
Correspondence (C): 1963-1965
Box 20 Folder 2
Correspondence (C): 1961 , 1963-1964
Box 20 Folder 3
Correspondence (C): 1963-1964
Box 20 Folder 4
Correspondence (D): 1963-1964
 Box 20 Folder 5
Correspondence (E-G): 1963-1965
Box 20 Folder 6
Correspondence (H-J): 1963-1965
Box 20 Folder 7
Correspondence (H-J): 1962-1965
Box 20 Folder 8
Correspondence (K-L): 1963-1965
Box 20 Folder 9-10
Correspondence (M): 1963-1965
Box 20 Folder 11
Correspondence (N-Q): 1963-1965
Box 20 Folder 12
Correspondence (R-S): 1963-1965
Box 20 Folder 13
Correspondence (T-V): 1963-1965
Box 20 Folder 14
Correspondence (W-Z): 1963-1965
Box 20 Folder 15
Series XXII. 1965-1968, Includes Wells College Long Range Planning Committee. Correspondence as President of the Association for Asian Studies sent to Association headquarters in Ann Arbor.
Correspondence, report, clipping (A): 1966-1968
Box 20 Folder 16
Correspondence (B): 1965-1967
Box 20 Folder 17
Correspondence (C): 1965-1968
Box 20 Folder 18
Correspondence (D): 1965-1968
Box 20 Folder 19
Correspondence (E-F): 1965-1968 includes John Fairbank tribute
Box 20 Folder 20
Correspondence (G): 1965-1967
Box 20 Folder 21
Correspondence (H-J): 1965-1968
Box 20 Folder 22
Correspondence (H-J): 1965-1968
Box 21 Folder 1
Correspondence (K-L): 1965-1968
Box 21 Folder 2
Correspondence (M): 1965-1968
Box 21 Folder 3
Correspondence (N-O): 1965-1968
Box 21 Folder 4
Correspondence (P-Q): 1965-1968
Box 21 Folder 5
Correspondence (R-S): 1965-1968
Box 21 Folder 6
Correspondence (S): 1965-1967
Box 21 Folder 7
Correspondence (T-V): 1966-1968
Box 21 Folder 8
Wells College Long-Range Planning Committee 1967
Box 21 Folder 9-10
Wells College Long-Range Planning Committee 1967-1968
Box 21 Folder 11
Wells College Long-Range Planning Committee 1968
Box 21 Folder 12
Correspondence (W): 1965-1968
Box 21 Folder 13
Correspondence (Y-Z): 1965-1967 includes manuscripts on non-proliferstion of atomic weapons
Box 21 Folder 14
Series XXIII. 1968-1972, Miscellaneous correspondence up to time of retirement.
Correspondence (A-B): 1968-1975
Box 21 Folder 15
Correspondence (C): 1967-1973 , 1975
Box 21 Folder 16
Correspondence (D): 1968-1975
Box 21 Folder 17
Correspondence (E-G): 1968-1970 , 1972-1975
Box 21 Folder 18
Correspondence (H-J): 1968-1970 , 1972-1975
Box 21 Folder 19
Correspondence (K-L): 1968-1970 ,1974
Box 21 Folder 20
Correspondence (K-L): 1968-1971 , 1973-1974
Box 22 Folder 1
Correspondence (M-O): 1968-1975 includes correspondence in German
Box 22 Folder 2
Correspondence (P-R): 1966 , 1968-1970 , 1974-1975
Box 22 Folder 3
Correspondence (S): 1968-1975
Box 22 Folder 4
Correspondence (T-W): 1968-1975
Box 22 Folder 5
Correspondence (Y-Z): 1958-1959 , 1969-1971 includes activity against Vietnam War and receipts in Italian and Chinese
Box 22 Folder 6
Series XXIV. 1972-1978, Post-retirement correspondence
Correspondence (A-B): 1970-1972 , 1974-1977
Box 22 Folder 7
Correspondence (C): 1970 , 1973 , 1975-1977
Box 22 Folder 8
Correspondence (D): 1971-1972 , 1975-1978
Box 22 Folder 9
Correspondence (E-F): 1971-1974 , 1976-1978
Box 22 Folder 10
Correspondence (G-J): 1971-1978
Box 22 Folder 11
Correspondence (K-M): 1970-1978
Box 22 Folder 12
Correspondence (N-O): 1970-1971 , 1976 includes manuscript on proposed master's degree program in Asian Studies at SUNY New Paltz C1971)
Box 22 Folder 13
Correspondence (P-S): 1970-1973 , 1975-1977
Box 22 Folder 14
Correspondence (T-V): 1970-1971 , 1974-1978
Box 22 Folder 15
Correspondence (W-Z): 1970-1977
Box 22 Folder 16
Correspondence (A-B): 1978-1986
Box 22 Folder 17
Correspondence (B): 1978-1986
Box 22 Folder 18
Correspondence (C): 1979-1989
Box 22 Folder 19
Correspondence with Arun and Manashi DasGupta: 1961-1966
Box 23 Folder 1
Correspondence with Arun and Manashi DasGupta: 1967-1972
Box 23 Folder 2
Correspondence with Arun and Manashi DasGupta: 1975-1979
Box 23 Folder 3
Correspondence with Arun and Manashi DasGupta: 1980-1987
Box 23 Folder 4
Correspondence with Arun and Manashi DasGupta: 1988-1991
Box 23 Folder 5
Correspondence (D): 1978-1988
Box 24 Folder 1
Correspondence (E-F): 1979-1987
Box 24 Folder 2
Correspondence (G): 1979-1987
Box 24 Folder 3
Correspondence (H-J): 1979-1986
Box 24 Folder 4
Correspondence (K-L): 1979-1989
Box 24 Folder 5
Correspondence (M): 1979-1988
Box 24 Folder 6
Correspondence (N,0): 1980-1988
Box 24 Folder 7
Correspondence (P-Q): 1981-1982
Box 24 Folder 8
Correspondence (R): 1980-1988
Box 24 Folder 9
Correspondence (S): 1978-1989
Box 24 Folder 10
Correspondence (T-V): 1978-1989
Box 24 Folder 11
Correspondence (W-Z): 1980-1983
Box 24 Folder 12
Camilla Mills letters 1922
Box 25 Folder 1
Camilla Mills letters 1923
Box 25 Folder 2
Camilla Mills letters January 1924-March 1924
Box 25 Folder 3
Camilla Mills letters May 1924-December 1924
Box 25 Folder 4
Camilla Mills letters April 1925-December 1925
Box 25 Folder 5
Camilla Mills Biggerstaff letters April 1926-April 1927
Box 25 Folder 6
Camilla Mills Biggerstaff letters January 1929-April 1931
Box 25 Folder 7
Camilla and Knight Biggerstaff letters 1945-1946
Box 25 Folder 8
Notes from Knight to Family April 1949-July1949
Box 25 Folder 9
Scrapbook 1935
Box 25a
KB biog, biblio, photos 1957-1963
Box 26 Folder 1
Cornell Far Eastern History notes and draft 1960-1961
Box 26 Folder 2
Misc Lecture 1955-1988
Box 26 Folder 3
Rand McNally 1962-1982
Box 26 Folder 4
Rand McNally 1962-1982
Box 26 Folder 5
Dept of Far Eastern Studies 1956-1963
Box 26 Folder 6
Earliest Modern Gov't Schools
Box 26 Folder 7
Foreign Affairs Bibles 1970-1971
Box 26 Folder 8
China Program 1971
Box 26 Folder 9
Charles Peterson Promotion 1971-1972
Box 26 Folder 10
Charles Peterson Promotion 1971-1972
Box 26 Folder 11
Shadick Correspondence
Box 26 Folder 12
Hist 257 Wells 1972
Box 26 Folder 13
Hist 594 1966-1972
Box 26 Folder 14
Graduate Honors Exams 1962-1971
Box 26 Folder 15
Exams 1954-1974
Box 26 Folder 16
Exams 1954-1974
Box 26 Folder 17
Reserve Book List 1967-1971
Box 26 Folder 18
Grad Reading Course: Pre-Modern 1963-1968
Box 26 Folder 19
Hist 593 1960-1971
Box 26 Folder 20
Hist 593 1960-1971
Box 26 Folder 21
Hist 324 1962-1972
Box 26 Folder 22
Hist 324 1962-1972
Box 26 Folder 23
Hist 694 1969
Box 26 Folder 24
Sabbatical Trip 1963
Box 26 Folder 25
Sabbatical Trip 1963
Box 26 Folder 26
Book Draft
Box 26 Folder 27
Book Draft
Box 26 Folder 28
Book Draft
Box 26 Folder 29
Book Draft
Box 26 Folder 30
Modernization and Early Modern China 1965-1966
Box 26 Folder 31
Boatner, Maj. Gen. H.L. 1971
Box 26 Folder 32
The Crisis of Minority Faculty at Cornell Cohen and Gates 1987
Box 26 Folder 33
Controlling from Afar Leonard
Box 26 Folder 34
Myth-Making and Empire Building (Comment)Watters 1960-1971
Box 26 Folder 35
Photos
Box 26 Folder 36
Post Cards 1960-1971
Box 26 Folder 37
Association for Asian Studies: 16th Annual Meeting 1964
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 17th Annual Meeting 1965
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 27th Annual Meeting 1975
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 26th Annual Meeting 1974
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 16th Annual Meeting Abstracts 1964
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 12th Annual Meeting 1960
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 13th Annual Meeting 1961
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 14th Annual Meeting 1962
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 15th Annual Meeting 1963
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 11th Annual Meeting 1959
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 10th Annual Meeting 1958
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 9th Annual Meeting 1957
Box 26
The Far Eastern Association: 8th Annual Meeting 1956
Box 26
27th International Congress of Orientalists 1967
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 33rd Annual Meeting 1981
Box 26
Assiciation for Asian Studies: 30th Annual Meeting 1978
Box 26
Association for Asian Studies: 25th Annual Meeting 1973
Box 26
American Historical Association: 51st Annual Meeting 1936
Box 26
History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History 1972
Box 26
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 1939
Box 26
Photo album of images taken by Knight Biggerstaff: 1930s
Box 26a
Association for Asian Studies: 22nd Annual Meeting 1970
Box 27
Association for Asian Studies: 21st Annual Meeting 1969
Box 27
Association for Asian Studies: 15th Annual Meeting 1963
Box 27
Association for Asian Studies: 20th Annual Meeting 1968
Box 27
Association for Asian Studies: 19th Annual Meeting 1967
Box 27
Association for Asian Studies: 18th Annual Meeting 1966
Box 27
Association for Asian Studies: 23rd Annual Meeting 1971
Box 27
Association for Asian Studies: 31st Annual Meeting 1979
Box 27
Association for Asian Studies: 29th Annual Meeting 1977
Box 27
Association for Asian Studies: 27th Annual Meeting 1976
Box 27
Association for Asian Studies: 24th Annual meeting 1972
Box 27
Abdulah Taufik 1967-1969
Box 27 Folder 1
Andaya 1970-1971
Box 27 Folder 2
Averill 1974-1983
Box 27 Folder 3
Brady, Sean 1964-1970
Box 27 Folder 4
Capleand, Henry 1963-1968
Box 27 Folder 5
Chu Nai-suon
Box 27 Folder 6
Connor, Alison
Box 27 Folder 7
Corson, Carolyn 1974-1983
Box 27 Folder 8
Connlryman, Edward 1966-1974
Box 27 Folder 9
Cushman, Jennifer 1974-1983
Box 27 Folder 10
Cushman, Jennifer 1969-1985
Box 27 Folder 11
Donovan, Peter 1969-1978
Box 27 Folder 12
Donovan, Peter 1969-1978
Box 27 Folder 13
Fenner, Bruce 1971-1975
Box 27 Folder 14
Gahan, David
Box 27 Folder 15
Gewertz (Speisman) Margo 1964-1985
Box 27 Folder 16
Gewertz, Margo 1964-1985
Box 27 Folder 17
Hildebrand, George 1967-1984
Box 27 Folder 18
Hunker, David 1966-1969
Box 27 Folder 19
Kahn, Helen Dodson 1964
Box 27 Folder 20
Kaplan, Robert 1966-1971
Box 27 Folder 21
Kan Ying-Mao 1965-1978
Box 27 Folder 22
Laffey, Ella 1962-1984
Box 27 Folder 23
Laffey, Ella 1962-1984
Box 27 Folder 24
Laffey, John 1966-1985
Box 27 Folder 25
Laffey, John 1966-1985
Box 27 Folder 26
Leonard, Jane Kate 1964-1985
Box 27 Folder 27
Leonard, Jane Kate 1974-1983
Box 27 Folder 28
Leonard, Jane Kate
Box 27 Folder 29
Leonard, Jane Kate
Box 27 Folder 30
Mikelich, Mira
Box 27 Folder 31
Murray, Dian 1974-1985
Box 27 Folder 32
Nagazumi, Akira 1963-1971
Box 27 Folder 33
Glenik, John 1965-1983
Box 27 Folder 34
Glenik, John
Box 27 Folder 35
Rawski, Tom
Box 27 Folder 36
Pope, Harold 1966-1973
Box 27 Folder 37
Reber, Lindsey 1966
Box 27 Folder 38
Ricklefs, Merle 1967-1968
Box 27 Folder 39
Rokjer, Thomas 1964-1970
Box 27 Folder 40
Shiqetani, Marianne Donovan
Box 27 Folder 41
Surette, Gerald 1963-1967
Box 27 Folder 42
Tyrner-Stastny, Alice 1968-1976
Box 27 Folder 43
Trocki, Carl 1968-1976
Box 27 Folder 44
Ts'as, Ignatius 1966-1971
Box 27 Folder 45
Ungar, Esta 1969-1970
Box 27 Folder 46
Wilson, Constance 1963-1969
Box 27 Folder 47
Wyatt, David 1962-1969
Box 28 Folder 1
Recommendatons A-D
Box 28 Folder 2
Recommendations E-G
Box 28 Folder 3
Recommendations H-K
Box 28 Folder 4
Recommendations L-P
Box 28 Folder 5
Recommendations R-J
Box 28 Folder 6
Recommendations T-Z
Box 28 Folder 7
Term Reports
Box 28 Folder 8
Misc
Box 28 Folder 9
Tsong-wuen Lin Paper 1969
Box 28 Folder 10
Cnner, Alison Paper 1968
Box 28 Folder 11
James Plunkett Paper 1972
Box 28 Folder 12
Paper: Ben Bastspm 1971
Box 28 Folder 13
Hist 205 Reading Assignments, Lecture Notes
Box 28 Folder 14
Thesis - John Kremers Whitmore 1968
Box 28 Folder 15
Paper - Donald Holock 1969
Box 28 Folder 16
Paper - William Dockey
Box 28 Folder 17
Paper - Richard Caulton 1967
Box 28 Folder 18
Paper - J Kenneth Olenik 1968
Box 28 Folder 19
Hist 593
Box 28 Folder 20
Hist 394 Spring 1977
Box 28 Folder 21
Hist 394 Spring 1972
Box 28 Folder 22
Hist 394 Spring Spring 1973
Box 28 Folder 23
Hist 394 Spring 1974
Box 28 Folder 24
Hist 257 Fall 1972
Box 28 Folder 25
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Box 28 Folder 26
American Historical Association 87th Meeting 1972
Box 28
American Historical Association 88th Meeting 1973
Box 28
Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 38th Meeting 1986
Box 28
Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 39th Meeting 1987
Box 28
Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 38th Meeting 1986
Box 28
American Historical Association Supplement 1970
Box 28
Reference Works for Modern Chinese History
Box 29 Folder 1
593 Taiping Rebellion and Its Consequences
Box 29 Folder 2
593 T'ung-chin Restoration and Its Cause
Box 29 Folder 3
593 Western Impact and Chinese Response to 1898
Box 29 Folder 4
593 1900-1912
Box 29 Folder 5
593 New Culture and May 4
Box 29 Folder 6
593 1920's Revolution
Box 29 Folder 7
593 Education, Art, Lit, etc. 1930's
Box 29 Folder 8
593 Pre-War-Kuomintang
Box 29 Folder 9
593 Pre-War - Communists
Box 29 Folder 10
593 War Years
Box 29 Folder 11
593 1945 - 1949
Box 29 Folder 12
593 Questions
Box 29 Folder 13
593-4 Questionnaire: Chinese History Program
Box 29 Folder 14
394 Questionnaire
Box 29 Folder 15
Grad Students 1971-1972
Box 29 Folder 16
New Paultz MA program 1969-1971
Box 29 Folder 17
Books for Modern Chinese History
Box 29 Folder 18
News Articales (photcopies)
Box 29 Folder 19
Yinmaw Kau Doctoral Thesis I 1968
Box 29 Folder 20
Yinmaw Kau II 1968
Box 29 Folder 21
Yinmaw Kau III 1968
Box 29 Folder 22
Department of History
Box 29 Folder 23
NEH Applications
Box 29 Folder 24
Chen, Theo H.C. 1972
Box 29 Folder 25
Personal 1945-1949
Box 29 Folder 26
Richard C. Howard - survey 1963
Box 29 Folder 27
Shanghai Polytechnic etc.
Box 29 Folder 28
Shanghai Polytechnic etc.
Box 29 Folder 29
Chinese Newspaper Clippings
Box 29 Folder 30
China 1949-1950
Box 29 Folder 31
Paper - Ella Laffey
Box 29 Folder 32
Paper - Thomas Rawski
Box 29 Folder 33
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America No.12 1943
Box 29
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America No.11 1942
Box 29
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America No.10 1942
Box 29
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America No.9 1941
Box 29
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America No.8 1941
Box 29
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America No.7 1940
Box 29
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America No.6 1940
Box 29
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America No.5 1939
Box 29
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America No.4 1939
Box 29
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America No.3 1938
Box 29
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America No.2 1938
Box 29
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America No.1 1937
Box 29
Notes On Far Eastern Studies in America 1937
Box 29
Harvard Law School: Studies in Chinese Law No.17 1971
Box 29
Harvard Law School: Studies in Chinese Law No.16 1971
Box 29
Harvard Law School: Studies in Chinese Law No.15 1971
Box 29
Harvard Law School: Studies in Chinese Law No.13 1970
Box 29
Harvard Law School: Studies in Chinese Law No.3 1966
Box 29
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 1941
Box 29
Bijdragen 1969
Box 29
Bijdragen 1971
Box 29
A consideration of three versions of the Babad tanah Djawi, with excerpts on the fall of the Madjapahit 1969
Box 29
Progress of Chinese Studies in the United States of America No.1 1931
Box 29
American Council of Learned Societies No.10 1929
Box 29
Books on the Orient Asia and Africa 1972
Box 29
Historians and American Far Eastern Policy 1966
Box 29
SCAN: Student Course Analysis 1972
Box 29
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung 1967
Box 29
Themes from Hist. Chairman 1972-1977
Box 30 Folder 1
Memos from Hist. Chairman 1964-1971
Box 30 Folder 2
Book Reviews 1956-1979
Box 30 Folder 3
Biggerstaff relat. with Univ. 1956-1976
Box 30 Folder 4
Dockery, William 1973-1975
Box 30 Folder 5
Herman, Alice 1973-1981
Box 30 Folder 6
Herman, Alice
Box 30 Folder 7
David Porter 1973
Box 30 Folder 8
Ron Taylor
Box 30 Folder 9
McCullough, Marilyn 1967-1973
Box 30 Folder 10
Morse, Lawrence 1971-1972
Box 30 Folder 11
Proposed to Hist. Chairman
Box 30 Folder 12
Beckham, Joan 1969-1970
Box 30 Folder 13
Oriental History Course 1970-1971
Box 30 Folder 14
Job Inquiries 1967-1972
Box 30 Folder 15
Peterson Correspondence 1972-1975
Box 30 Folder 16
Hist 191 [206] 1971-1972
Box 30 Folder 17
Latest Hist. 394
Box 30 Folder 18
Hist 394 Spring 1977
Box 30 Folder 19
My Replacement 1971-1973
Box 30 Folder 20
Cochran, Sherman 1977-1983
Box 30 Folder 21
Sherm's Students (Cochran) 1976-1977
Box 30 Folder 22
Miscellaneous
Box 30 Folder 23
Maps: China, Manchuria
Box 30 Folder 24
Rubbing
Box 30 Folder 25
The Grand Council in the Ch'ing Dynasty
Box 30
Magic and Science in Western Yunnan 1943
Box 30
A Critique of American Bourgeois Historiography on China: Problems of Social Development in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century 1968
Box 30
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies - Volume 30 1970
Box 30
Modern Chinese History Project No.36 1970
Box 30
National Central Library Bulletin 1970
Box 30
Handicraft and Manufactured Cotton Textiles in China 1970
Box 30
December 9, 1935: Student Nationalism and the China Christian Colleges 1967
Box 30
On the Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia 1961
Box 30
The Wu-Shih-Shan Incident of 1878 1964
Box 30
Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Social Correlates of the Supernatural, A Case Study of Chinese Religion 1966
Box 30
What the Study of China Can Do for Social Science 1964
Box 30
Modern Chinese History Project No. 19 1964
Box 30
The Concept of Parliamentary Government in 19th Century China 1963
Box 30
The Humanistic Tradition in The Century Ahead 1966
Box 30
Philosophy, East and West 1953
Box 30
Modern Chinese History Project No. 26 1965
Box 30
Childhood Association, Sexual Attraction, and the Incest Taboo: A Chinese Case 1966
Box 30
Acheh in the Seventeenth Century Asian Trade.
Box 30
Chiang Kai-shek's Waterloo: The Battle of the Hwai-Hai 1956
Box 30
Modern Chinese History Project No. 17 1964
Box 30
China's History in Marxian 1961
Box 30
Modern Chinese History Project No. 10 1962
Box 30
Bibliography of Dr. Hu Shih's Writings in Western Languages 1963
Box 30
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and Chinese Secret Societies 1963
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The Kiangsi Soviet Period: A Bibliographical Review on the Ch'en Ch'eng Collection 1970
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Studies in Soviet Thought 1970
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"Religions and the Development Process in Asia" 1970
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The Nature of Provincial Political Authority in Late Ch'ing Times: Chang Chih-tung in Canton 1970
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An Interpretation of Chinese Social Structure and Its Changes 1946
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McCarthyism and Our Asia Policy 1969
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"Industrial Enterprise in Twentieth-Century China: The Chee Hsin Cement Co." 1967
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Siam and Laos 1963
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Nineteenth-Century China: The Disintegration of the Old Order and the Impact of the West 1968
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Symposium on Chinese Studies 1968
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Sun Yat-Sen and Chinese History 1968
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Journal of Asian and African Studies 1967
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Li Hung-Chang and the Kiangnan Shipbuilding Program 1970
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Verfassung Und Recht in Ubersee 1972
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La Formation D'un Rebelle: Liu Yongfun et la Creation de L'armee des Pavillon Noirs 1970
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Historical Interaction of China and Vietnam: Institutional and Cultural Themes 1969
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Chinese Overlordship and Western Penetration in Maritime Asia: A Late Ch'ing Reappraisal of Chinese Maritime Relations 1972
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Bulletin No. 29 1972
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Peita as a Revolutionary Environment: The Twenties and the Sixties 1970
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Introduction to the Economy of China 1970
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Revue D'histoire Moderne et Contemporaine 1969
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A Chinese Official's Experiences During the First Opium War 1933
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Pacific Affairs Bibliographies No. 1: The Personal Chronicale of the First Manchu Emeperor 1936
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Sinological Research Work in Free China During the War Period
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The T'ai Miao of Peking
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The Last of the Immortals
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Far Eastern Culture and Society
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T'oung Pao Archives 1938
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Chinese Education During the War
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As China's Friend "Mei-Kuo" First
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The Ting Hsien Experiment
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Knight and Camilla Correspondence 1949
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Tell The People - Mass Education in China
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The Local Government of China
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Lusin: A Chronolgical Record 1939
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Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 1943
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The Language Students of the East India Company's Canton Factory
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A Study in Miniature of Chinese Population 1951
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The Senior Returned Students, A Brief Account of the Chinese Educational Commission 1932
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Diplomatic Audiences at the Court of China
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Occasional Papers
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The "False Edict" of 1849 1961
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President's Valedictory Address 1866
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Tirage A Part Du T'oung Pao
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La Haute Asie 1931
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Translation of the Text of the Resolutions Adopted at the Closing Session of the Political Consultative Council 1946
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Political Consultative Conference
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Map of China
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Map of Southeast Asia 1966
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Land Classification Map of Tompkins County, New York 1930
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The National Geographic Magazine: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies 1939
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Fortune's Map of South America in Globular Perspective 1966
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National History and the Kuo Shih Kuan 1966
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card files 1700s-1949
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The Yenchinian 1929-1930
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TWK (Tungwen College) calendars 1879-1898
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"Yenching Faculty Families" newsletter 1985-1995
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Knight Biggerstaff graduate students 1968-1974
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Cornell East Asia Program newsletter, Fall 1992
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Directory of Japan Specialists and Japanese Studies Institutions in the United States and Canada survey form) 19--
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Yenching Faculty Families 2000
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2 sauce dishes, 1 ashtray, 1 cup, 1 page holder, 1 Italian university medal 19--
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Photos 1930-1973
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Korea 19--
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Yun Kang, Korea 1935, 1941
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Japan 19--
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China and Japan 1929 1936
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Hangchow [Hangzhou], China 19--
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Miscellaneous China pictures 1928-1931
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Peking, China 1928
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Peking-Yenching, China 1928-1931
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Yenching, China 1931
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Pan Shan, China 19--
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Peitaiho, China 19--
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Summer trip 1929
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k[night]'s trip to Siam, Spring 1930
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Trip up Yangtze 1931
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Temple in Western Hills, Summer Palace, etc.(3 envelopes) 1928-1931
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Correspondence 1981-1998
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Janet Smith Rhodes letters 1996-1999
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Diaries, journals 1945-1975
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Family history in China: Ben Anderson's father 1998
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Family history in China: John Ferguson family 1975, 1981
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Chapter III, 1st draft 19--
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Chapter 27, 1st draft 19--
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Modern China and Japan chapters, Houghton Mifflin 1987
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Modern China and Japan chapters, Knopf 1987
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Houghton Mifflin "World" history 1979
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Bibliography 1904-1948
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Sherm's course 1982
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History 394 1973-1977
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History 191 1973
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History 203 1971
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High school course 1978
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Yenching College, Women's College of Peking University 1924-1925
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Beijing University 19--
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