Preliminary Inventory to the Jay Calvin Huston papers

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Title: Jay Calvin Huston papers
Date (inclusive): 1917-1931
Collection Number: 47005
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Russian
Physical Description: 14 manuscript boxes, 2 envelopes, 1 microfilm reel (5.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, pamphlets, leaflets, and clippings relating to cultural, political, and economic conditions in China, and to communism and Soviet influence in China.
Creator: Huston, Jay Calvin
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1947.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Jay Calvin Huston papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

American consular official in China, 1917-1932.

Scope and Content of Collection

Writings, pamphlets, leaflets, and clippings relating to cultural, political, and economic conditions in China, and to communism and Soviet influence in China.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Communism -- China
China -- Economic conditions -- 1912-1949
China -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- China
Diplomats -- United States
China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949
China -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- China
United States. Department of State

 

Packages

box 1

I: Personal documents of M. Hassis, Soviet Vice-Consul in Canton

box 1

II: Communism - China

box 2

II: Communism - China

box 3

II: Communism - China

box 3

III: Civilization - China

box 3

IV: Student movement - China

box 3

V: Religion - China

box 4

V: Religion - China

box 4

VI: Political parties - China (Kuomintang)

box 5

VI: Political parties - China (Kuomintang)

 

VII: Labor and laboring classes - China

box 5

Box 5

Scope and Contents note

1. General - History 2. Strikes and lockouts 3. Trade unions
box 6

Box 6

Scope and Contents note

1. General - History 2. Strikes and lockouts 3. Trade unions
box 7

VIII: Economic conditions - China

box 8

IX: Commerce - Customs - China

box 8

X: Foreign relations - China

box 9

XI: The United States and China

box 9

XII: The United States and Russia

box 9

XIII: Japan - Korea

box 9

XIV: Great Britain

box 9

XV: Russia

box 10

XV: Russia

box 11

XVI: Miscellaneous

box 12

Voluntary report, "What Will Be the Political Outcome of the KMT-Labor Communist Movement in China--Chaos and Sovietism, or a New Political Form in International Affairs?," draft

box 12

Manuscript (typed, written), "The Rise of Modern Industrialism in China"

box 12

Report, "The Labor Situation in China," 1923 March 1

box 12

Reports (carbons) re wreck and robbery of Tientsin-Pukov Express, with newspaper clippings 1923 May 6

 

Sun Yat-sen

box 12

Official proclamations (in English)

box 12

"The International Development of China," printed Program I: Part V (10 pp. plus 2 pp. diagrams)

box 12

"The International Development of China," printed Program II (pp. 11-30), diagrams inserted

box 12

Newspaper clippings from The Independent Herald, Hankow, entitled "Dr. Sun Yat Sen: The Father of Chaos" (7 pp.) 1925 February 3

 

Extraterritoriality

 

Printed materials

box 12

Newspaper clippings

box 12

Pamphlets

box 12

Correspondence (one letter)

box 12

Summaries

box 12

Miscellany

 

Printed materials

box 12

Chinese Correspondence (Vol. 2, Nos. 6-7)

 

Pan-Pacific Trade Union Conference

box 12

Bulletin of Proceedings, Hankow 1927 May

box 12

Vol. 1, Nos. 1-5, 11-14 1927

box 12

Photograph (unidentified)

box 13

"Civilization and Culture" - Newspaper clippings regarding various subjects (Tong Wars, etc.) circa 1922-1925

box 13

"Currency and Public Debts" - Copies of correspondence with Frederick Dumont, Commercial Office, State Department 1928 December 31 1929 January 22 March 20 1928

box 13

"Chinese History" - Printed materials re Canton Incident, Japan, Soviet Union, etc.

box 13

"Constitutional Government in China" - Printed materials

 

American policy in China

box 13

Printed materials

 

Miscellaneous

box 13

Memo on American Policy in China - Past, Present and Future

box 13

Rockhill's memorandum on the Open Door Policy in China

box 13

Letter (carbon) to Secretary of State (No. 2636) from Jay C. Huston (2 pp.)

box 13

Report (corrected), "Encouragement of the Importation of Specified Classes of Commodities into U.S. and Extension. . . (of U.S.) Investments. . . (in) China," 1921 October 20

box 13

Report (carbon), "The Chinese Renaissance and Its Relation to Soviet Policy in the Far East," Sec. 1., 1923 August 8; Ibid, Sec. II, 1922 September 15

 

Miscellaneous materials

box 13

"Political," (9 pp.) by C. P. Murray 1929 April 1

box 13

Revised regulations of the Mutual Assistance Society (or Chinese Socialist Society of Canton) (22 pp.)

box 13

Editorials, Peking and Tientsin Times 1922 May 6-27

box 13

"A Review of Political Conditions in the Canton Consular District," (51 pp. plus enclosures) 1927 December 31

box 13

Ibid (23 pp. plus enclosures) 1927 December

box 13

Report, "The Significance to Foreigners in China of the Anti-Christian Outburst" (37 pp. plus enclosures) 1924-1925

box 13

Report, including introduction with description of contents, pp. a-j. Subject: political situation in China, 1911-1924 (and Hankow, 1925 January-March) undated

box 13

Sun Yat-sen - Miscellaneous typed and written materials; report regarding the Foreign News Services of China by Don D. Patterson 1922 January 15

 

Printed material

box 14

American Foreign Service Journal 1932 August

box 14

Reply Letters by S. P. Smith to R. F. Johnston's Letters to a Missionary, Commercial Press, Ltd., Shanghai 1919

box 14

Printed address by Byron Brenan, H.B.M.'s Consul-General at Shanghai, entitled The Office of District Magistrate in China, Shanghai 1899

box 14

American Trust publication, Review of the Pacific (various issues) 1927-1929

 

Miscellaneous reports, manuscripts

box 14

Prominent Men in the KMT (translation of Soviet reports) 1926 May

box 14

Spread of Labor Union Movement. . . Yangtsze Valley (4 pp.)

box 14

Sketch history of Chinese Communist Party (40 pp.)

box 14

Voluntary report, "Will Chinese Capitalism Be Willing to Save China from Chaos and Communism?" (49 pp.) 1931 November 15

box 14

"Peasant, Workers, Soldiers Revolt of at Canton" (53 pp. plus enclosures). Addressed to J. V. A. MacMurray, American Minister, Peking 1927 December 11-13

box 14

Political conditions in Canton District (13 pp. plus enclosures). Addressed to F. L. Mayer 1927 October

box 14

Political conditions in Canton Consular District (12 pp. plus enclosures). Addressed to F. L. Mayer 1928 March

box 14

Comments on a book (typed)

box 14

Political report (carbon) undated

box 14

"Communism in South China: The Hai-Lu-Fend Soviet" (carbon manuscript) (15 pp.) 1928 February 7

box 14

Jay Calvin Huston, "Sun Yat-sen, the Kuomingtang and the Chinese Russian Political and Economic Alliance," typescript draft (187 p.)

reel 1

Jay Calvin Huston, "Sun Yat-sen, the Kuomingtang and the Chinese Russian Political and Economic Alliance," typescript draft (216 p.)