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Guide to the Mark Gayn Papers MS Coll. 215 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Guide to the Mark Gayn Papers MS Coll. 215 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto Prepared by Graham S. Bradshaw Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto 1988 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ................................................... iii Foreword ...................................................... iv Scope and Content Note .............................. V Biographical Sketch •••• . .................................... vii Abbreviations/Symbols . xi Series l: Biographical and Personal • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • l Series 2: Correspondence • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .5 Series 3: Diaries . .. .. .. .. .. .. .............. 8 Series 4: Notebooks ...................................... 11 Series 5: Subject Files ...................................... 20 Series 6: Lectures ......................................... 38 Series 7: Conferences, Seminars ............................. 47 Series 8: Books .. .. .. .. ............ .53 Series 9: Articles ............................................ 64 Series 10: Book Reviews ....................................... '87 Series 11: Translations ......................................... 96 Series 12: Literary Agent Activities ................. 98 Series 13: Broadcast Media .................................... • 102 Series 14: Audio-Visual Recordings ............................. • 108 Series 1.5: Press and Information Kits ••.••••••••••••••••••••••••• 124 Series 16: Posters ............................................. 127 Series 17: Ephemera ............................................ 130 Series 18: Artifacts .........•...•••••..••...•.•.•.••••••••••.• 13 .5 Series 19: Material from Suzanne Gayn, Philip Jaffe, and Bertram Wolfe .................................. .138 Series 20: Photographs .141 l INTRODUCTION The official records of twentieth-century historical events are voluminous and have been preserved by institutions in quantities matched by none of the preceding eras. These vast archival resources are beginning to be exploited by historians and critical commentators on all the facets of human endeavour and will provide the basis of whatever historical perspective scholars of the future will be able to bring to bear on our own time. By themselves, however, these records are not enough: the unofficial observations and reflections of perceptive independent observers are required to provide both information and critical balance. The University of Toronto Library, dedicated as it is to providing research collections for the academic community of today and of the future, is privileged to house and administer the Mark Gayn Collection, one of the most extensive and important collections of its kind. This collection is significant for its scope, its depth, and its focus, encompassing several of the most tumultuous political and social upheavals of our age. Its potential for any scholar interested in the modern history of China, Japan, the U.S.S.R., Vietnam, Greece or Czechoslovakia is vast, but before it can be fully exploited it must be described in sufficient detail to be understood and used. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library was fortunate to secure the expert services of Graham Bradshaw to catalogue and describe the manuscript notebooks, diaries, drafts of books and articles, tapes, films and photographs and compile this detailed description of the collection. The acquisition and description of the Mark Gayn Collection is the result of cooperation, enlightened generosity and concern for the preservation of cultural history. Mark and Suzanne Gayn arranged for the donation to the University of Toronto before his death in December, 1981 and Suzanne has been consistently generous and helpful. The University and generations of scholars owe her special gratitude. The Atkinson Foundation through its President, Mrs. H.A. Hindmarsh, provided a substantial grant for the Library to sort, arrange and describe the collection and this publication is one result of its crucial assistance to this project. William Saywell, now the President of Simon Fraser University, was instrumental in arranging for the collection to come to the University of Toronto and has kindly contributed a foreword, written from the perspective of a personal friend of Mark Gayn. This catalogue is, of course, a small monument to the remarkable career of Mark Gayn. It is an attempt to ensure that his achievements will continue to be sources of information and inspiration to all who would attempt to comprehend and understand our civilization. Richard Landon, Head, l - Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library I FOREWORD Mark Gayn's extraordinary life as one of North America's best known and most accomplished journalists spanned five decades. He observed many of this century's tumultuous events from the 1930s to his death in 1981. The breadth of his interests was almost limitless, from politics and economics to culture and the arts. Above all, he was an outstanding observer and analyst of the great human dramas that unfolded in the century. He met and interviewed many of the famous and the infamous behind those dramas. In recording their views, portraying their actions and analysing the consequences, Mark Gayn not only recorded history in the making; he made history as well. I had the very good fortune to know Mark as a fellow "China-Watcher" and as a personal friend. In the 1970s we both lived and worked in Hong Kong. As the Cultural Revolution tore China apart and its violence spilled over into the British Territory, I was able to observe events at very close hand and discuss their historic importance with Mark. The historical perspective and cultural sensitivity Mark brought to all his writings on China singled him out as an unique observer of Chinese affairs. I am very pleased that Mark and his wife Suzanne agreed to give the extremely valuable collection of his papers and library to the University of Toronto, whose Robarts Library is the pre-eminent university library in Canada. Mark's long association with the Toronto Star, and the many friends that he and Suzanne have throughout both the city and the University, make it particularly fitting that this part of his exceptional legacy should be housed at the University of Toronto. The Mark Gayn Collection will be used for decades to come by the historians, journalists and social scientists who will continue to write on the events and issues it encompasses. His notebooks, diaries and correspondence will provide important new information and perspectives on the Chinese Revolution, the American occupation of Japan, the Greek Civil War, major developments in the Cold War in Asia and Europe, and a host of other historic events of this century. His published and unpublished manuscripts will strengthen the archival resources for those who will interpret and re­ interpret the history of much of this century. His newspaper despatches and articles should be read with care by all those who would attempt to follow his footsteps in a profession he loved, and one to which he gave so very much. William G. Saywell President Simon Fraser University t I SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE I The Mark Gayn papers are an extremely interesting and valuable record of a journalist's career which covered some fifty years. They contain not only the journalistic output of Mark Gayn (his writings, broadcasts, lectures, etc.), I but also the research materials he used in his work, and an assortment of memorabilia brought back from numerous assignments. I Much of this very large collection, when received, was arranged in broad subject categories. For example, Gayn grouped many of his lectures together and organized his research material along geographical lines. In order to make the collection more accessible and useful to the researcher, it was I necessary to revise the organization considerably. More specific subject headings have been created and similar materials have been grouped into series. The notebooks, for example, were originally divided geographically I but were scattered throughout the collection in no particular order. They have now been brought together into one series but the geographical arrangements have been retained. The biographical and personal items which I have been brought together to form one series, provide another example of material found throughout the collection. The Mark Gayn papers as a whole have been divided into twenty series or I main categories, as follows: Biographical and Personal, Correspondence, Diaries, Notebooks, Subject Files, Lectures, Conferences and Sel'!'inars, Books, Articles, Book Reviews, Translations, Literary Agent Activities, I Broadcast Media, Audio-Visual Recordings, Press and Information Kits, Posters, Ephemera, Artifacts, Material from Suzanne Gayn, Philip Jaffe, and Bertram Wolfe, and Photographs (for a description of the contents for the I series, see the statements preceding each series). One of the main features of this collection is its interesting diversity in terms of scope, physical format and places of origin. It includes both manuscript and printed I materials, the latter consisting of articles, pamphlets, reports, books, ephemera and posters. The collection also contains cassette tapes, phonodiscs, 16mm. films, photographs and artifacts. Records from China, the U.S.S.R. and North Korea, posters from Vietnam and Cuba, and dolls from I Communist China dressed in military uniforms are but a few examples of the wide variety of items that Gayn acquired.
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