http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5c600413 Online items available Register of the Nym Wales papers Finding aid prepared by Harold P. Anderson; revised by Taylor Brady and Paige Minister Hoover Institution Library and Archives © 1998, 2015, 2017 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6003 [email protected] URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives Register of the Nym Wales papers 58002 1 Title: Nym Wales papers Date (inclusive): 1931-1998 Collection Number: 58002 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Language of Material: In English, Chinese, and Arabic Physical Description: 68 manuscript boxes, 5 oversize boxes, 11 oversize folders, 1 oversize envelope, 1 album box, 2 slide boxes, 2 videocassettes(31.2 Linear Feet) Abstract: Personal and collected correspondence, speeches and writings, news dispatches, interviews, reports, memoranda, organizational records, and photographs relating to the Chinese communists; the industrial cooperative movement, student movement, and labor movement in China; the Sian incident, 1936; the Sino-Japanese Conflict; and Chinese art and literature. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. Creator: Wales, Nym, 1907-1997 Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Access Box 41 restricted. Boxes 35, 36, and 37 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1958 with additional increments received from 1982 to 2011. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Nym Wales papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Alternate Forms Available Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. Biographical Note *Nym Wales is the pseudonym of Helen Foster Snow, also known in various contexts as Peggy Snow, Hseuh Hai-lun, and Lo Fu. 1907 Born, Cedar City, Utah September 21 1925-1927 Student, University of Utah 1931-1941 Lived in China and the Philippine Islands, held positions as a journalist, book reviewer, and editor 1932 Married Edgar Snow (divorced, 1949) 1934-1935 Student, Yenching University and Tsinghua University 1937 Visited the headquarters of Chinese Communist leaders in Yenan for four months 1937 Co-founder of Democracy magazine 1938 Co-founder of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative movement in Shanghai 1939 Author, Inside Red China 1941-1951 Board of Directors, American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives 1941 Co-author with Kim San, Song of Arian: The Life Story of an Asian Revolutionary 1941 Author, China Builds for Democracy: A Story of Cooperative Industry 1945 Author, The Chinese Labor Movement 1952 Editor, Red Dust: Autobiographies of Chinese Communists as Told to Nym Wales 1952 Author, Fables and Parables for the Mid-Century 1958-1961 Author and compiler, Historical Notes on China, 6 volumes designed to accompany the Nym Wales Collection at the Hoover Institution: Notes on the Chinese Student Movement, 1935-1936; Notes on the Sian Incident, 1936; Notes on Korea and the Life of Kim San; My Yenan Notebooks; Notes on the Left-Wing Painters and Modern Art in China; Notes on the Beginnings of the Industrial Cooperatives in China 1967 Author, Women in Modern China 1972 Author, The Chinese Communists (in part a reprint of Red Dust) 1972-1973 Travelled in the Far East, including mainland China 1984 Author, My China Years: A Memoir 1997 January Died, Guilford, Connecticut 11 Register of the Nym Wales papers 58002 2 Scope and Content of Collection Personal and collected correspondence, speeches and writings, news dispatches, interviews, reports, memoranda, organizational records, and photographs relating to the Chinese communists; the industrial cooperative movement, student movement, and labor movement in China; the Sian incident, 1936; the Sino-Japanese Conflict; and Chinese art and literature. An increment added in 2011 includes Wales's unpublished manuscript, in which she gave penetrating insights into the occurrences in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, Chinese-American relations, globalism, and a reflection on her eighty-second birthday in 1989; as well as her correspondence with Communist Chinese provincial organizations and friends within and outside the United States in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Subjects and Indexing Terms Video tapes Journalists Communism -- China Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949 Chinese literature China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949 China -- Economic conditions -- 1912-1949 China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949 Chinese industrial cooperatives Art -- China Cooperative societies -- China Fascism -- China Labor movement -- China Youth movements -- China Industries -- China CHINESE INDUSTRIAL COOPERATIVES 1936-1950, 1958 Scope and Contents note Correspondence, writings, speeches, records, and printed matter related to the establishment and development of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative (C.I.C. or INDUSCO) movement during the 1930s and 1940s and especially to the participation of Nym Wales (Helen Foster Snow), Edgar Snow, Rewi Alley, and Ida Pruitt. Part of this material forms the basis for Wales' China Builds for Democracy, published in 1941. A guide to the material, prepared by Nym Wales, appears at the beginning of the series. box 1, folder 1-3 "Notes on the Beginnings of the Industrial Cooperatives in China," 1958 Scope and Contents Contains mimeograph transcripts of reports, minutes, correspondence, and manuscripts, as well as notes prepared by Nym Wales as a guide to the use of the following material. box 1 Correspondence of Nym Wales and Edgar Snow 1936-1947 Arrangement The correspondence of Nym Wales and Edgar Snow has been kept together because many of the letters are addressed to or concern both parties. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent. box 1, folder 4 Allen, Donald M. 1939, undated box 1, folder 5 Alley, Rewi 1939-1942 box 1, folder 6 Babcock, Mrs. W. R. (Polly) 1941 Register of the Nym Wales papers 58002 3 CHINESE INDUSTRIAL COOPERATIVES 1936-1950, 1958 Correspondence of Nym Wales and Edgar Snow 1936-1947 box 1, folder 7 Cameron, Mr. 1944 box 1, folder 8 Carlson, Evans F. 1940 box 1, folder 9 Carter, Edward C. 1940 box 1, folder 10 Chen, Han-seng 1939-1940 box 1, folder 11 Chen, S. J. 1940 box 1, folder 12 Chiang, Shu-Huan (Mrs. K. M. Lu) 1940 box 1, folder 13 Early, Donald M. 1942 box 1, folder 14 Fairfax-Cholmeley Elsie 1940 box 1, folder 15 Fitch, George A. 1942 box 1, folder 16 Gollancz, Victor 1940 box 1, folder 17 Herz, Henriette 1940 box 1, folder 18 Hogg, George Aylwin 1940, 1942-1943 box 1, folder 19 [Hooker], Helene M. (Organizing Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives) 1941 box 1, folder 20 Hsia, C. L. 1939 box 1, folder 21 Hull, Cordell (Secretary of State) 1940 box 1, folder 22 Jen, Chu-min 1940 box 1, folder 23 Johnson, Delbert (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives) 1941 box 1, folder 24 Johnson, Nelson Trusler (Ambassador to China) 1938, 1940 box 1, folder 25 Kaufman, Arthur 1943 box 1, folder 26 Kennard, J. Spencer, Jr. 1940 box 1, folder 27 Lapwood, E. Ralph 1940 box 1, folder 28 Leacock, David (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives) 1941-1942 box 1, folder 29 Lem, Frank (Len Su-yi) 1939 box 1, folder 30 Liang, Hubert S. (Liang Shih-shun) 1938-1940 box 1, folder 31 Dr. Robert K. S. (Chinese Red Cross) 1940 box 1, folder 32 Liu, Kwang Pei 1939-1940 box 1, folder 33 Liu, T. F. 1940 box 1, folder 34 Loomis, Helen (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives) 1941 box 1, folder 35 Lu, Kwang Mein 1940 box 1, folder 36 Porter, Miss 1939 box 1, folder 37 Pruitt, Ida (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives) 1939-1944, 1947 box 1, folder 38 Roosevelt, Eleanor (Mrs. Franklin D.) 1942 box 1, folder 39 Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1940 Scope and Contents note Contains a copy of a petition. box 1, folder 40 Selsbee, Elizabeth (American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives) 1943 box 1, folder 41 Soong, T. V. 1940 box 1, folder 42 Sycip, Mrs. Alfonzo Z. 1940 box 1, folder 43 Tereshtenko, Valery J. (The Cooperative Project) 1942 box 1, folder 44 Tong, Hollington K. 1940 box 1, folder 45 Walsh, Richard J. 1940 box 1, folder 46 Webber, John W. 1940 box 1, folder 47 Woodman, Dorothy (Anglo-Chinese Cooperative Development Society) 1940, 1944 box 1, folder 48 Wu, Mr. 1940 box 1, folder 49 Yarnell, Admiral Harry E. 1942 box 1, folder 50 Yeh, T'ing (Commander of the New Fourth Army) 1939 box 1, folder 51 Miscellaneous and unidentified undated box 2 Writings 1938-1941 Scope and Contents note Contains the writings of Nym Wales arranged by literary form, then chronologically. Articles and essays 1938-1966 box 2, folder 1 "Industrial Cooperatives Needed to Strengthen China," China Weekly Review, printed copy 1938 December 24 Register of the Nym Wales papers 58002 4 CHINESE INDUSTRIAL COOPERATIVES 1936-1950, 1958 Writings 1938-1941 box 2, folder 2 "The Philippines Aid China's Industrial Cooperatives," by "A Manila Correspondent" (Nym Wales), China Weekly Review 1939 June 24 Scope and Contents note Includes printed copy and typescript drafts with carbon copies. box 2, folder