Guide to the Stanford University, Asian Survey Committee, Asian Survey Project Records
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
Call Number: SC0045
Creator:
Stanford University. Asian Survey Committee.
Title: Stanford University, Asian Survey Committee, Asian survey project records
Dates: 1951 1951
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
Summary: Correspondence and minutes of meetings, progress reports, and recordings of meetings and conversations of a group of Stanford
University faculty members led by Carl Spaeth and funded by the Ford Foundation. This group, the Asian Survey Committee, was
organized to initiate, direct, and coordinate a nation-wide survey on the status of Asian studies in the United States, measure
this work against the scope of current national needs, and record problems, requirements, and possible solutions. Correspondents
and members of the Committee include Harold Henry Fisher, Arthur Wright, and Mary Wright.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Transferred by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford, California.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
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Cite As
Stanford University, Asian Survey Committee, Asian Survey Project Records (SC0045). Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Description of the Collection
Correspondence and minutes of meetings, progress reports, and recordings of meetings and conversations of a group of Stanford
University faculty members led by Carl Spaeth and funded by the Ford Foundation. This group, the Asian Survey Committee, was
organized to initiate, direct, and coordinate a nation-wide survey on the status of Asian studies in the United States, measure
this work against the scope of current national needs, and record problems, requirements, and possible solutions. Correspondents
and members of the Committee include Harold Henry Fisher, Arthur Wright, and Mary Wright.
Access Terms
Fisher, Harold H. (Harold Henry), 1890-1975
Ford Foundation
Gardner, John.
Harris, C. P.
Ike, Nakamura.
North, Robert.
Spaeth, Carl B.
Stanford University. Asian Survey Committee.
Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-1993
Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 1889-1975.
Wright, Arthur.
Wright, Mary.
Asia --Study and teaching.
Memoranda.
Minutes.
Notes.
Reports.
Box 1, Folder 1
Fisher, H.H. "Notes on Project Kosmos"
Box 1, Folder 1
Rothwell, C. Easton. "Some tentative Ideas on the Far Eastern Project," 1950
Box 1, Folder 1
"Possibilities of American Aid to Educational Institutions of South Asia and Middle East"
Box 1, Folder 1
Letter: Mary Wright to Carl Spaeth, Feb. 5, 1951
Box 1, Folder 1
Letter: Sterling to Mr. Hoffman
Box 1, Folder 1
President's Far Eastern Project – assignments
Box 1, Folder 1
Interdepartmental letters to Robert North
Box 1, Folder 2
Survey paper 3: Prospectus by Nakamura Ike, Feb. 15, 1951
Box 1, Folder 3
Survey paper 5: Prospectus by Arthur Wright, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 4
Survey Paper 6b: Prospectus by Mary Wright, Feb. 19, 1951
Box 1, Folder 5
Survey paper 7: Draft of a Substantive Investigation re Ideologies and Political Movements in the Modern Far East; with comments
by Carl Spaeth
Box 1, Folder 6
Survey paper 7: Radicalism and Conservatism – revision
Box 1, Folder 7
Survey paper 8: Strategy and Tactics in Soviet Political Policies Toward Asia (second draft)
Box 1, Folder 8
Survey paper 10: A Survey of Publication Media for Writings on the Far East
Box 1, Folder 9
Survey Paper 11: Current Research on the Far East
Box 1, Folder 10
Survey Paper 12: Library Resources for the Study of the Modern Far East
Box 1, Folder 11
Survey paper 13: Observations on an Approach to the Far Eastern Project by C. Easton Rothwell, Feb. 27, 1951
Box 1, Folder 12
Survey paper 14: List of projects for consideration
Box 1, Folder 13
Survey paper 15: The Use of Personnel and Resources, Mar. 5, 1951 – first draft by Arthur Wright and second draft by Tom Smith
Box 1, Folder 14
Survey paper 15a: Training Programs, Mar. 12, 1951
Box 1, Folder 15
Survey paper 16: Patterns of Thought in Eastern Asia – first draft by Arthur Wright
Box 1, Folder 16
Survey paper 17: The Japanese Elite, Theoretical Considerations
Box 1, Folder 17
Survey paper 18: A Project on the Development of Chinese Historical Thinking; includes letter from Arnold J. Toynbee to Prof.
Wright, Dec. 6, 1950
Box 1, Folder 18
Survey paper 19: Japanese Foreign Office Documents, by Tom Smith, Mar. 12, 1951
Box 1, Folder 19
Survey paper 20: Introduction to Series of Additional Research Projects by Mary Wright
Box 1, Folder 20
Survey paper 21: Project Introduction, Geographical Scope by H. H. Fisher, Mar. 15, 1951
Box 1, Folder 21
Survey paper 22: Publication Media – revision
Box 1, Folder 22
Survey paper 23: Robert North's sub-introduction re Need to Understand Far Eastern Problems
Box 1, Folder 23
Survey paper 24: Lack of Knowledge about Asia, part one first draft by Nivison, Mar. 22, 1951
Box 1, Folder 24
Survey paper 24: Lack of Knowledge about Asia, part one second draft
Box 1, Folder 25
Survey paper 24: Lack of Knowledge about Asia, part one third draft with notes on an advisory board
Box 1, Folder 26
Survey paper 25: Intellectual Co-operation with Asia, Mar. 16, 1951
Box 1, Folder 27
Survey paper 26: The Middle East: Problems for Research by C. P. Harris, Mar. 22, 1951
Box 1, Folder 28
Survey paper 27: An Advisory Board of Consultants, by C. Easton Rothwell, Mar. 23, 1951
Box 1, Folder 29
Survey paper 28: Strategy and Tactics of Communism in Iran, by C. P. Harris, Mar. 23, 1951
Box 1, Folder 30
Survey paper 29: proposal to establish Central Editorial Office
Box 1, Folder 31
Survey paper 30: Nationalism and reform in the Arab world, by C. P. Harris, Mar. 24, 1951
Box 1, Folder 32
Survey paper 31: Asian Background Material for Teaching and Textbooks and Editorial Use, by H. H. Fisher, Mar. 24, 1951
Box 1, Folder 33
Phase I Minutes of meetings, Feb.-Mar, 1951, with some memoranda and correspondence by Arthur Wright, H. H Fisher, Wallace
Stegner, Mary Wright
Box 1, Folder 34
Phase Two Minutes of meetings, April 1951
Box 1, Folder 35
Phase Two Finances (requisitions), May 1951
Box 1, Folder 36
Phase Two Agenda, Eastern meetings
Box 1, Folder 37
Phase Two Miscellaneous reports and conversations
Box 1, Folder 38
Foundation Appropriations for the Far East and Pacific Area, 1945-49
Box 1, Folder 39
Research on Economic Development, 1951
Scope and Content Note
Includes reports, notes, correspondence, and memoranda of Eugene Staley, Arthur Wright, Knight Biggerstaff, Woodbridge Bingham,
H. H. Fisher and others.
Box 1, Folder 40
Correspondence, proposals, and memoranda, 1951
Scope and Content Note
Includes Proposal for Far Eastern Training Program at Stanford; proposal for opening American Section of Indian Council of
World Affairs, New Delhi; and Ethel M. Ewing's memorandum concerning effective education in the far east.
Box 1, Folder 41
China Journey, Jan. 24 to July 27, 1945, Franz Michael, Seattle, Sept. 1947
Box 1, Folder 42
Correspondence, notes, reports, and memoranda of conversations, 1951
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include Derk Bodde, Charles Gardner, Owen Lattimore, and H. Arthur Steiner. Conversations are with Francis
Russell, Rothwell, Howard, George Ball, Herbert Elliston, Ed Murrow, Graves, Fairbank, Richard Frye, Philip K. Hitti, and
Douglas Oliver.
Box 1, Folder 43
Correspondence, memoranda, proposals, and other documents, 1951
Scope and Content Note
Correspondents include H. R. Isaacs, George E. Taylor, C. Wilbur Martin, W. L. Holland, Carl Spaeth, Garnet R. Garrison, and
Rayford W. Logan.
Box 1, Folder 44
Workbook 8, 1951
Scope and Content Note
Includes memos of committee members, progress reports, and Survey of College Courses Dealing with U.S. Policy Toward the Far
and Middle East; volume has an index.
Box 1, Folder 45
Workbook 8, Par II, 1951
Scope and Content Note
Includes progress reports and accounts of meetings and conversations
Box 1, Folder 46
Assorted documents including index, progress reports, and summary of interviews, 1951
Box 1, Folder 47
Progress Reports and accounts of meetings and conversations, 1951
