Guide to the Old China Hands Unpublished Manuscripts Collection

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Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives
Title: Old China Hands Unpublished Manuscripts Collection
Identifier/Call Number: OCH.UMC
Extent: 0.92 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1942-2012
Abstract: The Old China Hands Unpublished Manuscripts Collection consists of unpublished, primarily autobiographical and biographical works written about people who lived in China from the mid-19th century until the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Language of Material: English

Scope and Contents

The Old China Hands Unpublished Manuscripts Collection consists of unpublished works, primarily autobiographical and biographical, about people who lived and worked in China between the mid-19th century and the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Shanghai is the most frequently mentioned location, though Tientsin, Tsingtao, Harbin, Peitaiho, Peking, and Chefoo are also mentioned. Many of the writings chronicle experiences of Jewish families moving to China from Germany, Iraq, Austria, Poland, or Russia. Other individuals had ancestral connections to British, American, Danish, and Russian families.
The manuscripts include both childhood and adult perspectives. Children's stories about schooling include descriptions of time as a student at the Shanghai Municipal Council Western District Public School and the Shanghai Jewish School. The earliest family account documents the Mills, a 19th century Presbyterian missionary family, while the majority of the writing recounts experiences from the first half of the 20th century. These include accounts of service in the United States Air Force and Foreign Service, and World War II internment experiences in Chapei and Pootung Camps. The United States Marines are central to the biography of Arthur Liu, an orphaned child adopted as a mascot by the Marines. Manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by the author's surname.

Conditions Governing Access:

The collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use:

Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge. Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Wolf Ascher, Muzza Eaton, Faith Goldman, Lou Grossman, Rose Horowitz, Helga Kuegler, Harold Nyland, Bill Parker, and Suzi Walensky, 2002-2017

Accruals:

2017, 2020.

Preferred Citation:

For information about citing items in this collection consult the appropriate style manual, or see the Citing Archival Materials  guide.

Processing Information:

Jessica Geiser, 2013

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Documents

Box 2, Folder 1

Ascher, Wolf D., "My Shanghai Story," 2002

Box 1, Folder 1

Ascher, Wolf D., "My Three Stories," 2002

Box 1, Folder 2

Bekhor, Helen Reuben, "Living in Shanghai," undated

Box 2, Folder 2

Birulin, S.L., "Gordon Hall Tientsin China," undated

Box 2, Folder 3

Easley, Edwin S., "Life in the Japanese Concentration Camps in the Far East," 1943

Box 1, Folder 3

Eaton, Muzza Rosenstein, "But You Don't Look Chinese!! An Immigrant's Childhood in China," undated

Box 2, Folder 4

Goldman, Robert, "Memories of and from Robert 'Shanghai Bob' Goldman," 1997

Box 2, Folder 5

Kuegler, Helga (Bagger), "A Tiger's Swim" and "Fussnoten," 1993-2011

Box 1, Folder 4

Maehrischel, Karl, Untitled Memoir, 2004

Box 2, Folder 6

Mills, Samuel J., "Boyhood in China," 1962

Box 1, Folder 5

Nicoll, David, "Young Shanghailander: A Wartime Memoir," undated

Box 1, Folder 6

Parry, Elinor (Eleanor), "Appointment with the Past," 1969

Box 2, Folder 7

Paton, Malcolm, Midshipman Compulsory Journal Excerpt, 1945

Box 1, Folder 7

Price, Ernest, "Your Orient Servant," 1942

Box 2, Folder 8

Taylor, Suzanne Liu, "The Life of Liu," December 2003

Box 2, Folder 9

Taylor, Suzanne Liu, "The Life of Liu," 2003-2012

Box 2, Folder 10

Wolff, David, "To the Harbin Station: City Building in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914," 1991

Box 2, Folder 11

Wolff, David, "To the Harbin Station: City Building in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914," 1991