Nym Wales papers, 1931-1998
Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Wales, Nym, 1907-1997
- Abstract:
- Personal and collected correspondence, speeches and writings, news dispatches, interviews, reports, memoranda, organizational records, and photographs relating to the Chinese communists; the industrial cooperative movement, student movement, and labor movement in China; the Sian incident, 1936; the Sino-Japanese Conflict; and Chinese art and literature. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
- Extent:
- 69 manuscript boxes, 7 oversize boxes, 11 oversize folders, 1 oversize envelope, 1 album box, 32 35mm slides, 2 videocassettes, 4 photographs (31.4 Linear Feet)
- Language:
- In English, Chinese, and Arabic
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Nym Wales papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Personal and collected correspondence, speeches and writings, news dispatches, interviews, reports, memoranda, organizational records, and photographs relating to the Chinese communists; the industrial cooperative movement, student movement, and labor movement in China; the Sian incident, 1936; the Sino-Japanese Conflict; and Chinese art and literature.
An increment added in 2011 includes Wales's unpublished manuscript, in which she gave penetrating insights into the occurrences in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, Chinese-American relations, globalism, and a reflection on her eighty-second birthday in 1989; as well as her correspondence with Communist Chinese provincial organizations and friends within and outside the United States in the late 1980s and the early 1990s.
- Biographical / historical:
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*Nym Wales is the pseudonym of Helen Foster Snow, also known in various contexts as Peggy Snow, Hseuh Hai-lun, and Lo Fu.
Date Event 1907 September 21 Born, Cedar City, Utah1925-1927 Student, University of Utah1931-1941 Lived in China and the Philippine Islands, held positions as a journalist, book reviewer, and editor1932 Married Edgar Snow (divorced, 1949)1934-1935 Student, Yenching University and Tsinghua University1937 Visited the headquarters of Chinese Communist leaders in Yenan for four months1937 Co-founder of Democracy magazine1938 Co-founder of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative movement in Shanghai1939 Author, Inside Red China1941-1951 Board of Directors, American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives1941 Co-author with Kim San, Song of Arian: The Life Story of an Asian Revolutionary1941 Author, China Builds for Democracy: A Story of Cooperative Industry1945 Author, The Chinese Labor Movement1952 Editor, Red Dust: Autobiographies of Chinese Communists as Told to Nym Wales1952 Author, Fables and Parables for the Mid-Century1958-1961 Author and compiler, Historical Notes on China, 6 volumes designed to accompany the Nym Wales Collection at the Hoover Institution: Notes on the Chinese Student Movement, 1935-1936; Notes on the Sian Incident, 1936; Notes on Korea and the Life of Kim San; My Yenan Notebooks; Notes on the Left-Wing Painters and Modern Art in China; Notes on the Beginnings of the Industrial Cooperatives in China1967 Author, Women in Modern China1972 Author, The Chinese Communists (in part a reprint of Red Dust)1972-1973 Travelled in the Far East, including mainland China1984 Author, My China Years: A Memoir1997 January 11 Died, Guilford, Connecticut - Acquisition information:
- Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1958 with additional increments received from 1982 to 2011.
- Physical location:
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Communism -- China
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
Chinese literature
Chinese industrial cooperatives
Art -- China
Cooperative societies -- China
Fascism -- China
Labor movement -- China
Youth movements -- China
Industries -- China
Journalists
Video tapes - Places:
- China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949
China -- Economic conditions -- 1912-1949
China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Boxes 35-37, 41, 74-75, OCM12 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.
- Terms of access:
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For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Nym Wales papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-6003, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-3563