Inventory of the Jack Chen papers
Finding aid prepared by Yichen Jin, Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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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 2
1936-1938, includes the worldwide tour of his anti-Fascist exhibit
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 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