Inventory of the Jack Chen papers

Finding aid prepared by Yichen Jin, Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff
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Title: Jack Chen papers
Date (bulk): 1927-1980
Collection Number: 2013C15
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 1 manuscript box, 6 oversize boxes (3.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Drawings, cartoons, writings, correspondence, and clippings, relating to political conditions in China, foreign relations of China, and world politics. Includes political cartoons by Jack Chen published in the international communist press.
Creator: Chen, Jack, 1908-1995
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2013.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Jack Chen papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical/Historical Note

Chinese artist and author; resident in the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States.

Scope and Content of Collection

Drawings, cartoons, writings, correspondence, and clippings, relating to political conditions in China, foreign relations of China, and world politics. Includes political cartoons by Jack Chen published in the international communist press.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

China -- Emigration and immigration
Drawing
World politics -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons
China -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons

 

Albums of cartoons 1927-1966

box 5

1927-1933, Wuhan and Moscow

box 5

1933-1936, Moscow

box 2

1936-1938, includes the worldwide tour of his anti-Fascist exhibit

box 2

1938-1940s, London

box 2

1939-1947, London, Shanghai, Stockholm, and Finland

box 2

1940-1944, Daily Worker, London

box 2

1950-1960s, including the Xinjiang trip in 1957 and Hong Kong trip in 1963-1964

box 2

1957-1962, Beijing

box 2

1950-1966, Beijing

box 1

Original cartoons, published in Peking Review (Beijing Review)(40 cartoons) undated

box 3

Album of articles written between 1947 and 1949

box 6

Album containing various responses after Chen's arrival in U.S. in 1971, including the controversy over his appointment as a consultant to the New York State Education Department 1971

box 1

Album of lecture tours on U.S. campuses undated

box 1

Albums of reviews on Jack Chen's books on China (2 albums) 1980

box 3

Album of Chen's exhibits in the U.S. between 1973 and 1980

box 4

English edition of the Chen family history, Return to the Middle Kingdom: One Family, Three Revolutionaries, and the Birth of Modern China 1970s

box 4

A Year in Upper Felicity: Life in a Chinese Village During the Cultural Revolution 1970s

box 4

Inside the Cultural Revolution 1970s

box 4

Album of Jack Chen's drawing in Progress of China's Industrial Cooperatives 1936-1938

box 3

Clippings, articles, and miscellany 1960s-1970s

box 7

Photographs, articles, letters, and clippings undated