Register of the C. F. Remer papers

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Title: C. F. Remer papers
Date (inclusive): 1915-1967
Collection Number: 72016
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 40 manuscript boxes, 4 card file boxes, 7 envelopes, 1 album box, 6 phonorecords (18.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, notes, studies, speeches, clippings, and printed matter, relating to the political and economic development of the Far East, especially China. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. 
Creator: Remer, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1889-1972
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1972.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], C. F. Remer papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Alternate Forms Available

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

Biographical Note

1889 born, Young America, Minnesota
1908 B.A., University of Minnesota
1917-1922 Professor of Economics, St. John's University, Shanghai, China
1923 Ph.D., economics, Harvard University
1924-1928 Professor of Economics, Williams College
1926 author, Foreign Trade of China
1928-1959 Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
1933 co-author, A Study of Chinese Boycotts
1933 co-author, Foreign Investments in China
1938-1939 Director, Geneva Research Center, Geneva, Switzerland
1941-1944 Chief, Far East Division, Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services
1944-1945 Advisor, Far Eastern Investment and Finance, U.S. Department of State
1956 author, Japanese Economics, A Guide to Reference and Research Materials
1956 author, Coal Production in Communist China
1959 co-author, Three Essays on the International Economics of Communist China
1961 author, Trade Agreements of Communist China

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Sound recordings
East Asia -- Politics and government
East Asia -- Economic conditions
China -- Economic conditions
China -- Politics and government

 

Correspondence 1917-1966

box 1

Mailing lists

 

1917-1929

 

1930-1939

 

1940-1949

 

1950-1959

 

1960-1966

box 2

Application for Fulbright Fellowship to lecture in Taiwan 1964-1965

 

Family correspondence

 

Hong Kong trip 1961

 

Mah, Feng-hwa

 

Nanyang University (Singapore)

 

Personal

 

Rockefeller Foundation

 

Taussing, Frank W.

 

VISTA

 

Writings and Research Projects 1915-1964

Scope and Contents

Manuscripts, drafts, research notes, correspondence, book reviews, clippings, and printed matter, relating to C.F. Remer's writings and research projects, arranged chronologically by year of publication or composition.
box 3

Book reviews by C.F. Remer

 

Relation of Christian Missions in China to Practical Sociology 1915

 

Certain Related Phenomena, International Trade Under Silver 1926

 

Foreign Trade of China, book reviews 1926

 

Study of Chinese Boycotts, book reviews 1933

 

Foreign Investments in China 1933

 

Introduction for a later reprint

 

Manuscript and notes

 

Book reviews

 

International Investment in the Far East and Suggestions for Research 1939

 

Investments in Kind 1939

 

Economics and War 1940

 

Michigan and the Reciprocal Trade Agreements 1940

 

Research in International Economic Relations 1940

 

Papers and Reference Documents on U.S. Economic Relations with China 1945

 

Economic Reconstruction in the Far East 1946

 

International Entrepreneur Investments, Project 1947

 

Manuscript copy of study

box 4

Description of project, financial statement, and index to files

 

Organization and suggestions for chapters

 

Drafts of chapters 1-2

box 5

Drafts of chapters 3-5

box 6

Drafts of chapters 6-7

 

Drafts of chapters 11-13

box 7

Drafts of chapters 11-13

 

Drafts of chapters 14-19

box 8

Drafts of chapters 17-18

 

Drafts of appendix

 

July draft, chapters 1-17

 

Subject file

 

Bibliography

 

General outlines

box 9

General outlines

 

Methodology, terminology, classification

 

Theory

 

Business organization

 

International cartels

 

Population and migration

 

Colonies

 

Raw materials

box 10

Raw materials

 

Trade and exchange restrictions

 

Nationalism

 

Investment in kind

 

Legal questions

 

New and undeveloped countries

 

Business cycle

 

Investments and course of trade

 

Conversations in Europe

 

Suggestions for volume

 

Large enterprises

 

March trip

 

May conference

 

Short and medium term investments

 

Industries

 

Area file

box 11

World and general

box 11

Van Zealand report

box 11

British Empire

 

United States

box 12

U.S. capital exported

box 12

U.S. capital imported

box 12

U.S. Department of Commerce

box 12

Effect of the War 1939-1945

box 12

Export-Import Bank

box 13

Hawaii

 

Philippines

 

Porto Rico

 

France

 

French Indo-China

 

Belgium

 

Holland

 

Dutch East Indies

 

Germany

box 14

Germany

 

Switzerland

 

Norway

 

Sweden

 

Denmark

 

Finland

 

Italy

 

Ethiopia

 

Spain and Portugal

 

Austria

 

Czechoslovakia

 

Hungary

box 15

Yugoslavia

 

Rumania

 

Bulgaria

 

Albania

 

Greece

 

Poland

 

Lithuania

 

Estonia

 

Latvia

 

U.S.S.R.

 

Mexico

 

Cuba

 

Brazil

 

Argentina

box 16

Chile

 

Other Latin America

 

Japan

 

China

 

Manchuria

 

Siam

 

Turkey

 

Persia, Irak, Palestine

 

Egypt

 

Other Africa

 

Miscellaneous

box 17

Area notebooks

box 17

Attitudes toward foreign investment

box 17

Branch plants in U.S. Experience

box 17

Capital importing areas

box 17

Cartels

box 17

Clippings

box 17

Cross investments

box 17

Direct Foreign Investments, by E. Liefmann-Keil

box 18

Printed matter

box 19

Printed matter

 

Pure Theory of Trade between Economics Related by Entrepreneur Investments, by Hebbard

 

Reasons for investment

 

Related studies

 

Research note cards

box 20

Research notes

 

Administration of Foreign Affairs and Overseas Operations of the U.S. Government -- Economic Reporting 1951

 

Coal Production in Communist China 1956

 

Published copies

 

Manuscript drafts

 

Notes

 

Correspondence

 

International Economics of Communist China 1959

box 21

Book reviews

box 21

Outlines

box 21

Bibliographies

box 21

Questions

 

Drafts of chapters and information file

box 21

General doctrine

box 21

History

box 21

Chinese communism before 1949

box 21

Constitutional basis

box 21

Features of trade

box 21

Conduct of trade

box 21

Trade statistics

box 22

Trade statistics

box 23

Trade statistics

 

Trade with communist countries

 

Trade with non-communist countries

box 24

Trade with non-communist countries

 

Hong Kong

 

Overseas Chinese

 

Balance of payments

 

Domestic economy

box 25

Domestic economy

box 26

Domestic economy

 

Political and strategic aspects

 

International Economics Project, Center for Chinese Studies (Berkeley, California) 1959-1960

box 27

Administration records

box 27

Financial records

box 27

Personnel records

box 27

List of folders in research files

 

Research papers

box 27

Trade Agreements of Communist China, by C.F. Remer

box 27

Recent Efforts at Coordinated Planning in the Soviet Bloc, by Oleg Hoeffding

box 27

Financing Public Investment in Communist China, by Feng-hwa Mah

box 27

Review of Choh-ming Li's Economic Development of Communist China, by R. Moorstein

box 27

Research materials

box 27

Bibliography

 

Information file

box 27

Organization and means of dealing with international trade

box 27

Trade statistics

box 28

Balance of international payments

 

Remittances from overseas Chinese

 

External value of the yuan

 

Terms of trade

 

Trade agreements

 

Policy

 

International Aspects of Economic Development as a Field of Research 1961

 

Japanese Reparations, Two Contrasting Periods 1964

 

Manuscripts

 

Correspondence

 

Notes

 

Printed matter

box 29

A New Approach to the Study of Chinese Communism undated

 

Preparedness and the Far East undated

 

Economic Development of Japan as a Basis for Cooperation in Research undated

 

Revolution and Economic Development in the Mainland of China undated

 

Some Notes upon the Economic Thought of the Hebrews undated

 

Speeches and Lectures 1928-1962

Scope and Contents

Transcripts of classroom lectures and speeches, drafts, and notes, arranged as listed.
 

Classroom lectures and notes 1940-1961

box 29

Economics 141, International Economic Relations 1940-1941

 

Economics 142, International Trade 1940-1941

 

Economics 144, Far Eastern Economic Problems 1948

box 30

Economics 145, International Trade of China 1948-1957

 

Economics, 245, International Economics of the Far East 1953-1958

 

Economics 246, International Capital Movements 1955

 

Economics 142, United States and International Policy 1957

box 31

Anthropology 293, Integrated Course on Japan 1957

 

Asian Studies 602, Japanese Industrial Development 1961

 

Equilibrium in International Trade Theory 1928

 

An Economic Approach to International Relations 1932

 

International Aspects of the Depression 1932

 

Miscellaneous lectures on the Far East 1933-1940

 

War Debts and American Policy 1933

 

Address before the Annual Conference of University Social Science Research Organizations 1938

 

The War in the Far East 1941

 

Postwar Economic Development of China 1944

 

American Interest in the Economic Future of the Pacific 1946

 

Problem of American Assistance to Underdeveloped Areas 1949

 

Absorption of Foreign Capital in Japan's Economic Development 1952

 

Terms of Trade 1961

 

My Early Days in China 1962

 

Appraising the External Economic Relations of Communist China undated

 

Economic Aspects of the Far Eastern Situation undated

 

Economic Reconstruction in the Far East undated

 

Professors in Washington undated

 

Role of the University in Economic Research undated

 

The School as a Social Agency from the Viewpoint of the Economist undated

 

Miscellaneous lectures on the characteristics of economic development

 

Miscellaneous lectures and lecture notes

 

Subject File 1921-1967

Scope and Contents

Reports, studies, conference papers, correspondence, notes, clippings, and printed matter, arranged alphabetically by subject.
box 32

Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy

 

Bibliographies and lists of books ordered

 

China (Nationalist) 1921-1961

 

Agriculture

 

American cultural influence upon

 

Army

 

Economic development

 

Extraterritoriality

 

Famine relief 1921-1922

 

Finance

box 33

Foreign investment

 

General

 

Industry

 

Lytton Report

 

Politics and government

 

Railroads

 

Reconstruction and relief

 

Social and cultural life

box 34

Trade

 

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration work 1945

 

China (Communist) 1949-1967

 

Admission to United Nations

 

Agriculture

 

Bibliography

box 35

Economic development

 

Foreign relations

 

Foreign trade

 

Industry

 

Labor

 

Money and banking

 

Natural resources

 

Personal narratives

 

Political, social, and psychological aspects

 

Population

 

Technology

box 36

Dachau and Buchenwald, A Report of Facts

 

East and west relations

 

Economic development of underdeveloped areas

 

Economics, miscellaneous printed matter

 

European Common Market

 

Institute of International Studies (Berkeley, California)

 

Institute of Pacific Relations

 

Circulating memoranda 1932

 

Lucknow Conference 1950

 

Notes and correspondence

 

Conference papers and studies

 

Miscellaneous pamphlets, lists, and circulars

box 37

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

 

Japan

 

Economic development

 

Foreign investments

 

Foreign trade

 

Income of Niike

 

Industrialization

 

Internal politics and culture

 

Relations with China

 

Relations with United States

box 38

Kaldor, Nicholas, Characteristics of Economic Development

 

Kennedy, John F., speech on U.S. military and diplomatic policies before Congress 1958

 

Macro-economic theory

 

Nutter, Warren G., pamphlet on Soviet industrial growth

 

Philippines

 

Rapport, William E.

 

Sharfman, Leo

 

Smith, Bruce L.R., pamphlet on Berlin government

 

Southeast Asia

 

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, economy

 

United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East

 

University of Michigan

 

Vitae sheets on students

 

Ward, Frederick Townsend

 

Wu, Chun-hsi, Remittance to Communist China

 

Photographs circa 1920-1930

envelope A

102 postcards and photos of daily life and cultural sites in China, circa 1920

envelope mB

102 postcards and photos of daily life and cultural sites in China cont. (oversize items), circa 1920

album fC

1 album of 30 photos of daily life and cultural sites in China. Entitled "Picturesque China," by D. Mennie circa 1920

envelope D

55 photos of the famine relief work in China 1921 January-February

envelope mE

1 photo of Chiang Kai-shek circa 1930

envelope F

6 photos of C. F. Remer and his professional associates undated

envelope G

56 photos of C. F. Remer, his personal friends, and his family undated

envelope H

1 photo of Yuan-ping Sha undated

 

Miscellany

Scope and Contents

Certificates of award, degrees, memorabilia, clippings, printed matter, notebooks, and card files.
box 39

Awards and degrees

 

Biographical file

 

Memorabilia

 

Newspaper clippings

 

Notebooks of C.F. Remer

 

Printed matter

 

Scrapbook of clippings and memorabilia

box 40

Card bibliography file on Nationalist China

box 41

Card bibliography file on Communist China

box 42

Card bibliography file on Communist China

box 43

Card bibliography file on Communist China

 

Increment to collection

box 44

C-Correspondence

box 44

F-Correspondence

box 44

Foreign Affairs TV Series

box 44

H-Correspondence

box 44

Hebbard, W. L.

box 44

Ho-Correspondence

box 44

L-Correspondence

box 44

Liu, Vincent

box 44

Lockwood, William, Jr.

box 44

M-Correspondence

box 44

N-O-Correspondence

box 44

P-Q-Correspondence

box 44

Polk, Judd

box 44

Rockefeller Foundation

box 44

S-Correspondence

box 44

Si-Correspondence

box 44

Social Science Research Council

box 44

State, Department of

box 44

Thomas, Philip S.

box 44

United Nations

box 44

W-Correspondence

box 44

Miscellaneous correspondence

 

Declassified U.S. government records 1930-1944

 

2018 release of declassified records 1930-1944