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Title: Flora Belle Jan letters
Date (inclusive): 1918-1949
Collection Number: 2011C26
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
2 manuscript boxes
(0.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Contains Flora Belle Jan's letters to her friend Ludmelia Holstein, relating to journalism in the United States and China
and to personal matters. Published as
Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan (Urbana, 2009).
Creator:
Jan, Flora Belle, 1906-1950
Creator:
Holstein, Ludmelia, 1905-1976
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Box FH12 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of 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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2011.
[Identification of item], Flora Belle Jan letters, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Flora Belle Jan, a Chinese American journalist, was born in the United States in 1906 to immigrant parents. She studied literature
at University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. Jan worked as a journalist in both the United States
and China for
The Fresno Herald, The San Francisco Examiner, The Chinese Students' Monthly, The Peking Chronicle, and other periodicals. Her writings reflect the encounters and reflections of a Chinese American woman in an era of race
and gender limitations.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of letters by Flora Belle Jan written over a thirty-year period, recording her personal struggles
in an environment of political turmoil in the 1930s and 1940s, offering unique insight into the social and political situation
of an educated, middle-class, professional Chinese American woman.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Journalists
Journalism -- China
Journalism -- United States
Chinese American women