Inventory of the Steven W. Mosher collection

Finding aid prepared by Yinxue Zhang
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Stanford University
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Title: Steven W. Mosher collection
Date (inclusive): 1949-1980
Collection Number: 90006
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: 43 manuscript boxes, 1 card file box, 1 oversize box (21.1 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Chinese government records and copies of records, population registers, pamphlets, serial issues, clippings, and other printed matter relating to rural social conditions in China, including demographics, education, land reform, food supply, and collective farm life.
source: Mosher, Steven W.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

Boxes 32, FH3, and FH6 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.

Use

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

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1990.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Steven W. Mosher collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Scope and Content of Collection

Chinese government records and copies of records, population registers, pamphlets, serial issues, clippings, and other printed matter relating to rural social conditions in China, including demographics, education, land reform, food supply, and collective farm life.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

China -- Social conditions
Education -- China
Agriculture -- China
Land tenure -- China
Collective farms -- China
China -- Rural conditions
China -- Population
Mosher, Steven W.

box 1, folder 1-5

Xing Cha teams 11, 19, 25, 26, 30, Poverty Association application forms, 1974

box 1, folder 6-18

Xing Cha teams 20-33, class status registration undated, circa 1965-1970

box 2, folder 1-6

Jiepu production teams 1-6, household registration 1970

box 2, folder 7-12

Xin Hua Brigade teams 1-31, household registration 1964

box 3, folder 1-5

Xin Hua Brigade teams 1-31, household registration (continued) 1964

box 3, folder 6-9

Sha Pu Brigade teams 1-10, class status registration circa 1960-1966

box 4, folder 1-4

Sha Pu Brigade teams 1-10, class status registration (continued) circa 1960-1966

box 4, folder 5-8

Xing Cha Brigade teams 1-19, class status registration circa 1960-1966

box 5, folder 1-5

Xing Cha Brigade teams 1-19, class status registration (continued) circa 1960-1966

box 5, folder 6

Xing Cha teams 9, 23, 28, 29, 33, Poverty Association application forms 1974

box 6, folder 1

Xing Cha Brigade teams 1-33, Poverty Association application forms 1975

box 6, folder 2-4

Xing Cha Brigade teams 1-22, 24, 32, Poverty Association application forms 1974

box 7, folder 1-2

Xing Cha Brigade teams 1-22, 24, 32, Poverty Association application forms (continued) 1974

box 7, folder 3-5

Xing Cha Brigade, pay, balance, income and other financial documents 1955-1958

box 45, folder 1

Magazines, quotes from Mao calligraphy, Mai Lianlu's notebook 1966

box 45, folder 2

Xing Cha and Shang Li primary school documents 1970-1974 1979

box 8, folder 1

Xian Sha, Xing Cha, and Shang Li land-holding records 1952

box 8, folder 2

Xing Cha school records and announcements 1971-1978

box 8, folder 3

Xing Cha mediation committee cases 1977

box 8, folder 4

Books on Maoism, revolutionary thoughts, agriculture, and other topics

box 9, folder 1

Article collections from universities, 1980

box 9, folder 2

Educatable siblings quitting the Poverty Association, name list, 1980

box 9, folder 3

Magazines on agriculture, science, village politics, and other topics 1978-1980

box 9, folder 4

World Knowledge, international social science magazine 1980

box 10, folder 1

Account book, investments, and other financial documents of Xing Cha and Sha Pu 1956-1963

box FH3

Pedigree of the Wan family, films

Access

Box FH3 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.

Separated Materials

Box 10:2 was removed and placed in Box FH3 for mold remediation treatment.
box 10, folder 3

Financial records, commune name list, and other documents of Xing Cha

box 10, folder 4

Land records, map, village history of Xing Cha 1975

box 11, folder 1-6

Xing Cha teams 11-33, population register 1977

box 12, folder 1-4

Xing Hua Brigade teams 1-31, population register 1964

box 13, folder 1

Study materials, 1974-1975

box 13, folder 2

Study materials and agriculture materials, 1974

box 13, folder 3-5

Sha Pu Brigade teams 1-10, population register 1969

box 14, folder 1-3

Xing Cha Brigade teams 1-10, population register 1977

box 14, folder 4

Xing Cha Brigade, debt, allocation, income, and other documents, 1959-1964

box 15, folder 1

Pedigrees of Xing Cha village circa 1949

box FH3

Economic and political study materials 1956-1970

Access

Box FH3 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.

Separated Materials

Box 15:2 was removed and placed in Box FH3 for mold remediation treatment.
box FH3

Xing Cha Brigade, cadre forms, study materials, and announcements

Access

Box FH3 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.

Separated Materials

Box 15:3 was removed and placed in Box FH3 for mold remediation treatment.
box 15, folder 4

Xing Cha educational materials and newspaper clippings 1956-1970

box 16

Mixed materials from Jun An commune 1956-1962

box 16

Land allocation and account books 1960-1979

box 16

Xing Cha work team work points book, 1979

box 17

Education materials of Guangdong 1972-1977

box 17

Cadre evaluation, account book, and other mixed materials, 1956-1958

box 17

Xing Cha village worker registers, 1957-1974

box 17

Accounts and timelines of agricultural production and plans/instructions for production, 1957-1974

box 17

Jun An commune business 1957-1974

box 18, folder 1

Three-level account book, 1955

box 18, folder 2

Xing Cha village materials, circa 1951

Scope and Contents note

Includes collection and account booklets recording sales and prices of fish merchants near the village, rental contracts for the period after the 1949 revolution but before land reform in 1951, list of gravesites of the Zhang family, and a record of taxes collected before the 1949 revolution.
box 18, folder 3

Study materials, surveys, and others 1973-1978

box 18, folder 4

Study materials and resumes of intellectuals, 1968-1980

box 19, folder 1

Account tables, study materials, conference materials 1964-1976

box 19, folder 2

Booklets on agriculture 1971-1978

box 19, folder 3

Account tables, study materials 1965-1974

box 20, folder 1

Shang Cun Brigade, population register 1970

box 20, folder 2-3

Education materials 1971, 1976-1978

box 20, folder 4

Contract, account books, and other materials 1956

box 20, folder 5

Xing Cha Brigade, agriculture tax and production namelist 1952

box 21, folder 1

Educational materials 1971

box 21, folder 2-3

Xing Cha Brigade [teams 14-16], two attacks and one anti movement economic crime cases, 1972

box 22, folder 1

Study materials and textbooks 1960-1977

box 22, folder 2

Former Shang Cun Brigade team 6 population register (now Xing Cha Team 30) 1957

box 22, folder 3-4

Crime materials

box 23, folder 1

Xian Sha village team 2, land production namelist, 1952

box 23, folder 2-3

Xing Cha village, land production namelist 1952

box 23, folder 4

Xian Sha population, housing, housing sites registers 1952

box 23, folder 5

Xian Sha land and production register (namelist), 1952

box 23, folder 6

District 9 Fu Xing county, Xing Cha team 6, land production namelist 1952

box 24, folder 1

Fu Xing county, Jun Di Fang population and housing land register 1952

box 24, folder 2

District 9 Fu Xing county, Xian Sha village team 2, land production namelist, 1952

box 24, folder 3

World Knowledge, Scientia Sinica, Agriculture Mechanics, and other university periodicals 1980

box 25, folder 1

Poor Peasant Association materials 1964-1978

box 25, folder 2

Xing Cha Brigade, cooperative medical income account book 1975-1976

box 25, folder 3

Medical care program, copy of medical booklets of Team 7 1980

box 25, folder 4

University periodicals, accounting magazines, 1980

box 26, folder 1

Literacy figures for entire commune 1977

box 26, folder 2

Student, teacher, school-based enterprises statistics 1973-1975

box 26, folder 3

School statistics, accounts, teacher namelists, 1972-1973

box 27, folder 1

Photographs, including maps, villages, documents, and statistics 1976

box 27, folder 2

Photographs, including documents, people, and statistics, 1976

box 27, folder 3

Photograph album, including pedigrees, village people, and statistics 1976-1980

box 27, folder 4

Photograph album on education 1976-1980

box 28, folder 1

Photograph album on education, agriculture, and statistics 1972-1980

box 28, folder 2

Photograph album, including documents, statistics, and village images, circa 1976

box 28, folder 3

Photograph album, including annual reports, statistics, pedigrees, and other documents, circa 1976

box 29, folder 1

Photograph album, including annual reports, statistics, and commune summary reports, 1972-1979

box 29, folder 2

Photograph album, including commune annual reports and namelists, 1971-1978

box 30, folder 1

Photograph album on education, 1971-1980

box 30, folder 2

Photograph album on education and cadres, 1969-1974

box 31, folder 1

Photograph album on education, revolution committee, and other enterprises 1972-1976

box 31, folder 2

Photograph album, including teacher namelist, commune annual report, and other materials 1968-1978

Scope and Contents note

Also includes negatives.
box 32

Photographic negatives

Conditions Governing Access

Box 32 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 33, folder 1

Medical care documents, lists, newspaper clippings 1961-1980

box 33, folder 2

Medical care newspaper clippings

box 33, folder 3

Photographic negatives

box 34, folder 1

Guangzhou teenagers, Revolution and Production newspaper, Foshan newspaper 1967-1976

box 34, folder 2

Village finance, Guangdong youngsters, Guangdong education, party education, Hua'nan militia, militia life 1965-1978

box 34, folder 3

Foshan newspaper 1973-1975

box 34, folder 4-5

Shunde county revolution committee and commune brochures 1957-1977

box 35, folder 1

Jun An commune production materials 1974-1976

box 35, folder 2

Collected materials, circa 1973-1977

Scope and Contents note

Includes Raoping County Xinfeng Commune Production Brigade report, a table of agricultural/livestock production statistics from January to August 1973, a conductor's compilation of battlefield and working songs from 1975, a document detailing requirements and recommendations for raising pigs, a report of the results of using phosphorus-based fertilizer in Sang Di, a report on livestock raising conditions from the Guangdong Province Livestock Raising Director's Office in June 1976, a document about banking in Zhaoqing City of Guangdong Province from September 1977, a document about the symptoms of leprosy, and a list of communist slogans.
box FH3

Study materials 1963-1977

Access

Box FH3 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.

Separated Materials

Box 35:3 was removed and placed in Box FH3 for mold remediation treatment.
box 35, folder 4

Chinese literature and culture brochures 1973-1979

box 36, folder 1

Brochures on Chinese history 1957-1975

box 36, folder 2

Chinese geography, negatives 1978-1979

box 36, folder 3

Agriculture production and economics 1962-1979

box 37, folder 1-2

Agriculture production and economics (continued) 1962-1979

box 37, folder 3

Criticism of Linbiao and Confucianism 1962-1979

box 38, folder 1

Mao Zedong materials 1965-1977

box 38, folder 2

Communist International 1970-1976

box 38, folder 3

Chinese government materials and Chinese Communist Party materials 1955-1979

 

Partial Inventory of 2018 Incremental Material

Scope and Contents note

Contains Chinese elementary school textbooks on math, science, language arts, etc.
box 39

Inventories of textbooks

Scope and Contents note

Inventories contain a detailed listing of titles in Chinese and correspond to the donor's original box numbers, Boxes 2-8.
box 39

Textbooks from original Box 2

box 40

Textbooks from original Boxes 2-3

box 41

Textbooks from original Boxes 3-5

box 42

Textbooks from original Boxes 5-6

box 43

Textbooks from original Boxes 7-8

box 44

Textbooks from original Box 8

box FH6

Material not yet described

Access

Box FH6 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.