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Title: Helen Praeger Young interviews
Date (inclusive): 1985-1997
Collection Number: 2008C52
Creator:
Young, Helen Praeger, 1932- , interviewer
Contributing Institution:
Hoover Institution Archives
Physical Description:
10 manuscript boxes, 4 cassette boxes
(5.5 linear feet)
Language of Material:
In English and Chinese.
Abstract: Sound recordings and translations of transcripts of interviews of women veterans of the Chinese Long March of 1934-1935. Used
as research material for the book by Helen Praeger Young,
Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March (Urbana, 2001).
Collection is 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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Helen Praeger Young interviews, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2008.
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 at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection mainly contains sound recordings and translations of transcripts of interviews of women veterans of the Chinese
Long March of 1934-1935 used as research material for the book by Helen Praeger Young,
Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March (Urbana, 2001). Additionally, the collection contains research material in both English and Chinese, such as biographical
material about the women interviewed, the Long March, maps of China, caligraphy samples, and other printed material and drafts
of various editions of the book with comments from editors and peers at the "Stanford Biographers Seminar."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
China--History--Long March, 1934-1935.
Communism--China.
Phonotapes.
Women--China.