Register of the Julean Herbert Arnold papers

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Title: Julean Herbert Arnold papers
Date (inclusive): 1905-1946
Collection Number: 73013
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 15 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 envelopes (8.1 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Diary, correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, dispatches, instructions, and memoranda relating to the American consular service in China, economic and political developments in China, and American commercial and foreign policy in East Asia. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org 
Creator: Arnold, Julean Herbert, 1875-1946
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1973.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Julean Herbert Arnold papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Alternate Forms Available

Digital copies of select records available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org 

Biographical Note

1876 July 19 Born, Sacramento, California
1902 B.S., California College of Commerce
1904-1914 U.S. Consular Service in China
1914-1917 U.S. Commercial Attaché in China and Japan
1917-1940 U.S. Commercial Attaché in China
1915 Founder, American Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai
1915 Delegate, Pan-Pacific Commercial Conference, Honolulu
1916 Founder, China Club of Seattle
1918, 1922, 1926-1927 Chairman, American Delegation to China Tariff Revision Commission, Shanghai
1926 Author, China: A Commercial and Industrial Handbook
1928 Author, Some Bigger Issues in China's Problems
1932 Author, China Through the American Window
1946 Died

Scope and Content of Collection

Diary, correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, dispatches, instructions, and memoranda relating to the American consular service in China, economic and political developments in China, and American commercial and foreign policy in East Asia.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

China -- Politics and government -- 20th century
China -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- China
United States -- Commerce
China -- Economic conditions
United States. Department of State

box 1, online digital

DIARY 1926-1927 1932-1937

Scope and Contents note

Diary and diary notes, arranged chronologically.
 

CORRESPONDENCE 1916-1946

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, arranged chronologically within the folder labeled "General" and alphabetically by last name of correspondent for the remaining folders.
box 1

General

box 1

Bloom, Sol

box 1

Dennis, William H.

box 1

Hart, Walter M.

box 1

Hornbeck, Stanley K.

box 1

Johnson, Luther A.

box 1

Johnson, Nelson T.

box 1

Kung, H. H.

box 1

McCoy, Frank R.

box 1

MacMurray, J. V. A.

box 1

Millard, Thomas F.

box 1

Patterson, Richard C.

box 1

Peck, Willys R.

box 1

Pierson, Warren L.

box 1

Pott, F. L. Hawke

box 1

Sproul, Robert G.

box 1

Sun Yat Sen

box 1

Swan, J. E.

 

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1909-1946

Scope and Contents note

Drafts and printed copies of speeches and writings, arranged alphabetically by title.
box 1

Address before the Credit Managers Association of Northern and Central California 1945

box 1

"America and a Japanese China," 1941

box 1

"America in China," 1937

box 1

"America Must Become Pacific Minded"

box 1

"American Interests in China"

box 1

"American Prestige and Influence in China"

box 1

"American Schools in China"

box 1

"American Trade in China," 1915

box 1

"American Trade Prospects with China," 1934

box 1

"American Trade Relations with China"

box 1

"America's Concern Over What Happens in China"

box 1

"America's Policy Toward China," 1946

box 1

"America's Stake in China," 1938

box 1

"Agriculture in the Economic Life of the New China," 1923

box 1

"Asia Houses for Pacific Coast Ports," 1936

box 1

"Asiatic Conditions," 1941

box 1

"Behind Those Chinese Lines," 1941

box 1

"California's Altar of Heaven Debating Trophy"

box 1

"Can China Meet the Challenge?"

box 1

"Can the Small Business Man Survive?," 1937

box 1

"Changing China"

box 1

"Chicago's Post-War Stake in China," 1941

box 1

"China--," 1923

box 1

"China: A Challenge," 1945

box 1

"China-American Trade Notes"

box 1

"China: America's Brightest Hope"

box 1

"China: America's Brightest Post-war Outlook," 1944

box 1

"China: Can Do," 1944

box 1

"China: Challenge to America"

box 1

"China in America," 1926

box 1

"China Is Calling," 1944

box 1

"China: Our Best New Source of Wealth," 1944

box 1

"China: Our New World of Opportunity"

box 2

"China Supersensitive Nationalism"

box 2

"China Trade Facts," 1925

box 2

"China's Billion Dollar Exports to America"

box 2

"China's Fate and America's Future," 1939

box 2

"China's Geographic Foundations," 1934

box 2

"China's Industrialization"

box 2

"China's Prewar Trade," 1944

box 2

"China's Railways--Present and in the Post-war Future," 1943

box 2

"Chinese and American Inter-marriages"

box 2

"Chinese and the American Business Man"

box 2

"Chinese Compradore"

box 2

"Chinese Sports and Sportsmanship"

box 2

Digest of Julean Arnold's statement before the Foreign Affairs Committee 1939 May 4

box 2

"Do Our China Missionaries Merit Your Support?," 1941

box 2

"Educating Chinese in America"

box 2

"Education in the Philippine Islands"

box 2

"Effect of Sino-Japanese Crisis Upon the Future of America"

box 2

"Foreign Trade Week for China," 1937

box 2

"Future of America in China"

box 2

"Guild Terrorism"

box 2

"How American Merchants and Manufacturers May Enter China," 1916

box 2

"How Can Our Movie Films Help Our Trade with China?"

box 2

"If I Were a Chinese," 1946

box 2

"Industry Invasion," 1923

box 2

"Inland Banking Facilities"

box 2

"Invasion of China Menaces America"

box 2

"Is America an Ally of Japan?," 1938

box 2

"Is Japan Blasting America Out of the Pacific?"

box 2

"Is Japan Blitzkrieging America Out of the Pacific?," 1940

box 2

"Jade," 1936

box 2

"Japanese Attitude toward American Interests in China"

box 2

"Japanese Bull in a China Shop"

box 2

"Japanese Goodwill Mission to America," 1939

box 2

"Japan's Policies and American Interest," 1938

box 2

"Japanese Victory and U.S. Labor"

box 2

"Know China!"

box 2

"Learn to Know China First"

box 2

Lecture given at Ford Ord 1944 October 25

box 2

"Making the Shanghai American Chamber of Commerce More Effective"

box 2

"Message to the People of China," 1942

box 2

"Millions for Educating the East to Know the West but Not One Cent to Train the West to Know the East," 1924

box 2

"Missionary's Opportunity," 1941

box 2

"Museum Method of Introducing American Goods into China," 1916

box 2

"New Scenic China," 1937

box 2

"Notes for 'Home and Abroad' from Shanghai Office," 1936

box 2

"Opportunities in Post-war China"

box 2

"Our Far Eastern Problem"

box 2

"Our Missionaries--Assets or Liabilities?," 1941

box 2

"Our Neighbors Across the Pacific"

box 2

"Our Opportunity Lies Westward"

box 2

"Our Stake in the Future of China," 1943

box 2

"Our Trade with China"

box 2

Outline of talk at Hammond Hospital, Modesto, California 1944 November 2

box 3

"Pacific--Ocean of Destiny"

box 3

"Peoples of Formosa," 1909

box 3

"Post-war China--Our Best Bet"

box 3

"Post-war Merchant Marine, Benefits Counted"

box 3

"Proposed 'China House,' 'Asia House,' or 'House of the Orient' for Pacific Coast Ports," 1934

box 3

Review of Albert Herrmann's Atlas of China

box 3

"Salient Facts in China's Trade"

box 3

"Shanghai Under Fire"

box 3

"Should the U.S. Get Out of China?," 1938

box 3

"Silent Ambassadors," 1932

box 3

"Some Bigger Issues in China's Problems," 1929

box 3

"Student Interpreters and Language Attaches"

box 3

"Suggestions for Revitalizing the Department of Commerce"

box 3

"They Thought China Had Nothing to Teach Them"

box 3

"Tragedy of Ignorance"

box 3

"Training Americans to Know Asia"

box 3

"Tung Oil Industry Developments in United States," 1933

box 3

"Twenty-eight Suggestions for Improving American-Chinese Trade Relations," 1930

box 3

"Unique Institution with a Unique Opportunity," 1929

box 3

"U.S. and China in the Post-war World"

box 3

"Walking to My Office in Shanghai"

box 3

"Western Characteristics Needed in China," 1910

box 3

"Western Educated Student's Opportunity in the Commercial Life of the New China"

box 3

"What Can China Mean to America?," 1943

box 3

"What China Yields in Peace and War"

box 3

"What Does China's Modernization Mean to Us?," 1942

box 3

"What Shall We Do about It?"

box 3

"What Will a Japanese Victory Mean to American Cotton?"

box 3

"What Would a Japanese Victory in China Mean to America?," 1939

box 3

"Whither Do We Go?," 1938

box 3

"Why an American Mercantile Marine?"

box 3

"Why Worry About China?," 1941

box 3

"Yankee Clipper Returns"

box 3

Notes

box 3

Invitations and appreciations for speaking engagements

 

OFFICE FILE 1905-1940

Scope and Contents note

Reports, despatches, instructions, correspondence, memoranda, lists, scrapbook, and printed matter, arranged by subseries. The offices and positions held by Julean Arnold, including American Assessor for the International Mixed Court, U.S. Consul in China, and U.S. Commercial Attache in China, constitute the subseries.
 

American Assessor, International Mixed Court

box 4

Report on Interference of the Shanghai Municipal Council in Matters Pertaining to the International Mixed Court 1905-1906

 

U.S. Consul in China (Amoy)

box 4

Reports on Tours Across West China 1910

 

U.S. Commercial Attache in China

box 4

List of Reporting Section staff

 

Despatches and weekly reports to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce

box 4

1915-1919

box 4

1918-1920

box 4

1920-1925

box 4

1926-1927

box 5

1926-1927

box 15

1926-1927 (continued)

box 5

1928-1930

box 15

1928-1930 (continued)

box 5

1928-1931

box 15

1928-1931 (continued)

box 6

1932-1934

box 6

1932-1937

box 7

1932-1934

box 7

1937

box 7

1938

box 7

1939-1940

box 7

Confidential correspondence and cables 1921-1929

Scope and Contents

Declassified U.S. government records returned to file after July 2015 release by Hoover.
box 7

Special correspondence and despatches 1926-1929

box 8

China Monthly Trade Report (Peking - Shanghai) 1929

box 16, folder 1

Scrapbook 1936-1937

box 16, folder 2

Loose documents removed from scrapbook folios 1-10 1936-1937

box 16, folder 3

Loose documents removed from scrapbook folios 11-20 1936-1937

box 16, folder 4

Loose documents removed from scrapbook folios 21-30 1936-1937

box 16, folder 5

Loose documents removed from scrapbook folios 31-40 1936-1937

box 16, folder 6

Loose documents removed from scrapbook folios 41-50 1936-1937

box 16, folder 7

Loose documents removed from scrapbook folios 51-60 1936-1937

box 16, folder 8

Loose documents removed from scrapbook folios 61-125 1936-1937

 

Information and correspondence file on China

box 9

Agriculture

box 9

American firms in China

box 9

American shipping in China

box 9

Chinese Chamber of Commerce

box 9

Commerce and trade

box 9

Communications

box 9

Economy, general

box 9

Education

box 9

German involvement in China

box 9

Industrial cooperatives

box 9

Industrialization

box 10

Japan's involvement in China 1914-1940

box 10

Labor conditions

box 10

Newspapers

box 10

Political conditions

box 10

Status of Commercial Attache and relationship with State Department

box 10

Trade promotion by U.S.

box 11

Transportation

box 11

U.S. foreign policy in China

box 11

Vital statistics

box 11

Retirement of Julean Arnold 1940

 

SUBJECT FILE 1941-1946

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, reports, newsletters, lists, clippings, and printed matter, arranged alphabetically by subject.
box 11

American Chambers of Commerce in China

box 11

California College in China Foundation 1945-1946

 

China

box 11

General

box 12

General

box 12

Art and literature

box 12

Bibliographies

box 12

China-America Council of Commerce and Industry 1944-1946

box 12

China Club of Seattle 1945-1946

box 12

China Commerce Club of California

box 12

China Information Committee

box 12

China Institute in America 1941-1946

box 12

China Society of America 1944-1946

box 13

Chinese Exclusion Act, repeal of 1942-1944

box 13

Chinese in the U.S.

box 13

Chinese national anthem

box 13

Japan, general

box 13

Soybean protein

box 13

United China Relief 1944-1946

box 13

United National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration 1944-1946

 

MISCELLANY

Scope and Contents note

Clippings, mailing lists and calling cards, maps, memorabilia, and miscellaneous printed matter, arranged as listed.
box 14

Clippings about Julean Arnold

box 14

Mailing lists and calling cards

box 14

Maps

box 14

Memorabilia

box 14

Printed matter

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

Scope and Contents note

96 prints / 3 envelopes.
envelope A

25 photos of maps of China, of a U.S. trade display in Shanghai, and of Julean Arnold and family

envelope B

40 photos of scenes of daily life in China, including photos and drawings of typical Chinese tools

envelope C

1 photo and 30 ink drawings of Chinese trade products