http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5c600413 No online items Register of the Nym Wales papers, 1931-1998 Processed by Harold P. Anderson; machine-readable finding aid created by Xiuzhi Zhou Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-6010 Phone: (650) 723-3563 Fax: (650) 725-3445 Email: [email protected] © 1998 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved. Register of the Nym Wales 58002 1 papers, 1931-1998 Register of the Nym Wales papers, 1931-1998 Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford, California Contact Information Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-6010 Phone: (650) 723-3563 Fax: (650) 725-3445 Email: [email protected] Processed by: Harold P. Anderson Date Completed: 1976 Encoded by: Xiuzhi Zhou © 1998 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved. Collection Summary Title: Nym Wales papers, Date (inclusive): 1931-1998 Collection Number: 58002 Creator: Wales, Nym, 1907- Collection Size: 63 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 1 album box, 11 oversize folders, 33 envelopes, 2 slide boxes, 1 videotape cassette (29 linear feet) Repository: Hoover Institution Archives Stanford, California 94305-6010 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. Language: English. Access Collection open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Nym Wales Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1958. An increment was added in 2011. Accruals Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been Register of the Nym Wales 58002 2 papers, 1931-1998 added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. 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 1989 unpublished manuscript, in which she gave penetrating insights into the occurrences in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, Chinese-American relations, globalism, 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. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Chinese Industrial Cooperatives Art--China Chinese literature Communism Communism--China Cooperative societies--China Fascism--China Labor movement--China Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945 Youth movement--China China--Economic conditions--1912-1949 China--History--Republic, 1912-1949 China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949 China--Industries China--Politics and government--1912-1949 Journalists Video tapes Biographical Notes *Nym Wales is the pseudonym of Helen Foster Snow, also known in various contexts as Peggy Snow, Hseuh Hai-lun, and Lo Fu. 1907, September Born, Cedar City, Utah 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 Register of the Nym Wales 58002 3 papers, 1931-1998 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 Note Additional material constituting part of the Nym Wales Collection can be located by consulting the following Hoover Institution Library card catalogs: Main catalog, Integrated Book Collection Catalog, Society Publications catalog, Serials Catalog, Newspaper catalog; and in the East Asia Collection (Lou Henry Hoover Building)--Chinese catalog, Chinese periodical catalog, and particularly, the Special Collection card file. Printed material of the following organizations and publications has been integrated into the society publication, serial and newspaper collections of the library: Allied Labor News Amerasia Asia Asia and the Americas Asian Horizen C.B.I. Roundup Central News Agency, Peiping Branch China Aid Council, newsletter China Air Mail China at war China Clipper China Critic China Defense League China Defense League, newsletter China Digest China Forum (Shanghai) China Information Bulletin China Information Committee, news releases China Information Service, newsletter China Magazine China Press Weekly China Reference Series China Today China Weekly Review China Welfare Appeal China Youth Chinese Affairs Chinese delegation to the U.N., official press releases Chinese Nation Chinese News Service, special features and releases, Voice of China weekly edition Chinese Opinions on Current Events Chinese Press Editorials (Reuters translation) Chinese Recorder Chinese Workers' Correspondence Chinese Workers' Pictorial Register of the Nym Wales 58002 4 papers, 1931-1998 Chinese Writers Monthly Chinese Youth C.I.C. Newsletter Chengtu News Bulletin Committee for a Democratic Policy toward China, information bulletin Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy Contemporary China Current Comment on Events in China Daily Worker (London) Democratic Youth Far East Bulletin Far East Spotlight Far Eastern Mirror Far Eastern Policy News Far Eastern Quarterly Far Eastern Review Far Eastern Survey Gung Ho News Indian Information Indusco Bulletin Indusco C.I.C. News from China Indusco, Inc. American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives International Literature International Press Correspondence Korean Independence Kuo Min News Agency Labour Monthly Left News Nankai Social and Economic Quarterly National Reconstruction Journal New China Review New China Weekly News Letter News of China Northwest Indusco News Oriental Affairs (Shanghai) The Outlook Pacific Affairs Pacific Digest Peoples Age Philippines Herald Photo-History The Sentinel Service d'archives, bulletin mensuel The Showdown (Shanghai) Southwest Indusco News Szechuan Weekly Bulletin Tass translation service United China Relief Register of the Nym Wales 58002 5 papers, 1931-1998 Voice of China (China news by shortwave radio) Voks Bulletin Znamia Boxes: 1-9 CHINESE INDUSTRIAL COOPERATIVES (C.I.C.; INDUSCO), 1936-1950. Scope and Content Note Correspondence, writings, speeches, records, and printed matter related to the establishment and development of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative movement during the 1930's and 1940's and especially to the participation of Nym Wales (Helen Foster Snow), Edgar Snow, Rewi Alley, and Ida Pruitt. Correspondence of Nym Wales and Edgar Snow, kept together because many of the letters are addressed to or concern both parties, is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Writings of Nym Wales are arranged by literary form and then chronology. Collected writings and speeches of other authors are arranged alphabetically by author, literary form (where the variety warrants it) and then chronology. General collected correspondence is arranged alphabetically by author. Collected correspondence of Indusco, Inc., American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives