Register of the Flora Belle Jan letters
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Register of the Flora Belle Jan letters
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
- Processed by:
- Brad Bauer, revised by Lyalya Kharitonova, 2012
- Date Completed:
- 2011, 2012
- Encoded by:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by Samira Bozorgi.
© 2011 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Title: Flora Belle Jan letters
Dates: 1918-1949
Collection Number: 2011C26
Creator: Jan, Flora Belle, 1906-1950
Collection Size:
2 manuscript boxes
(0.8 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Contains Flora Belle Jan's letters to her friend Ludmelia Holstein, relating to journalism in the United States and China
and to personal matters. Published as
Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan (Urbana, 2009).
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Flora Belle Jan letters, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2011.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Biographical/Historical Note
Flora Belle Jan, a Chinese American journalist, was born in the United States in 1906 to immigrant parents. She studied literature
at University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. Jan worked as a journalist in both the United States
and China for
The Fresno Herald, The San Francisco Examiner, The Chinese Students' Monthly, The Peking Chronicle, and other periodicals. Her writings reflect the encounters and reflections of a Chinese American woman in an era of race
and gender limitations.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of letters by Flora Belle Jan written over a thirty-year period, recording her personal struggles
in an environment of political turmoil in the 1930s and 1940s, offering unique insight into the social and political situation
of an educated, middle-class, professional Chinese American woman.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Journalism--United States.
Journalism--China.
Chinese American women.
Journalists.
Holstein, Ludmelia, 1905-1976.
Collection Contents
Box/Folder: 2
Peiping (Beijing),
1934-1941
Box/Folder: 2
Chungking (Chongqing),
1944-1945
