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Title: Zhang Shuqi papers
Date (inclusive): 1931-1988
Collection Number: 98028
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Chinese
Physical Description:
33 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes
(17.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial records, printed matter, drawings, and photographs, relating to
Chinese art and to Chinese-American cultural relations, especially during World War II. Includes papers of Helen Fong Chang,
wife of Zhang Shuqi. Video use copies of videotape available.
Creator:
Zhang, Shuqi, 1900-1957
Creator:
Chang, Helen Fong, 1912-1992
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Boxes 2, 8, 30, 32-33 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research;
materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the
collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1998.
[Identification of item], Zhang Shuqi papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1900 | Born, China |
| 1930 | Hired as professor of Chinese painting at newly-established National Central University, Nanjing (Cantor Center Catalog 2006,6) |
| 1940 | Sent to U.S. to present painting commissioned and inscribed by Chiang Kai-shek to President Roosevelt |
| 1941-1946 | Tours US promoting Chinese art, raising money for United China Relief (Chen 2006) |
| 1943 | Exhibition at Stanford |
| 1947 | Marries Helen Fong of Vallejo, California |
| 1949 | Moves from China to U.S. |
| 1949 | Exhibition at de Young Museum, San Francisco; gallery show in Seattle |
| 1951 | With wife, opens Chang Studios, later known as Chang Shu-Chi Studio, Oakland, California |
| 1956 | Society of Western Artists award for painting in San Francisco show |
| 1958 | Author, Shuqi xiao pin / Zhang Shuqi hui [A sampling of the paintings of Zhang Shuqi] (Shanghai, Ren min mei shu chu ban she) 書旂小品 / 張書旂繪 (上海, 人民美術出版社) |
| 1957 August | Died, California |
| 1960 | Posthumous publication of Painting in the Chinese Manner (a Studio Book) by Shu-Chi Chang, English translation by Helen F. Chang (New York, Viking) |
| 2006 | Work featured in exhibit and catalog Chinese Painting on the Eve of the Communist Revolution, Chang Shu-chi and his Collection (Stanford, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2006) |
| 2008 | Work featured in a de Young Museum exhibition and catalogs, including catalog co-authored by Gordon Chang, Asian American art, a history, 1850-1970 (Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press); Asian American modern art, shifting currents, 1900-1970 (San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Berkeley, University of California Press) |
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial records, printed matter, drawings, and photographs, relating to
Chinese art and to Chinese-American cultural relations, especially during World War II. Includes papers of Helen Fong Chang,
wife of Zhang Shuqi.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Drawing
Art -- China
United States -- Relations -- China
China -- Relations -- United States