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Title: Nym Wales papers
Date (inclusive): 1931-1998
Collection Number: 58002
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English, Chinese, and Arabic
Physical Description:
69 manuscript boxes, 7 oversize boxes, 11 oversize folders, 1 oversize envelope, 1 album box, 2 slide boxes, 2 videocassettes,
4 photographs
(31.4 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
Wales, Nym, 1907-1997
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Boxes 35-37, 41, 74-75, OCM12 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. There is digitized content from boxes 74-75
available in the reading room. 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 1958 with additional increments received from 1982 to 2011.
[Identification of item], Nym Wales papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Digital copies of select records also available at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
*Nym Wales is the pseudonym of Helen Foster Snow, also known in various contexts as Peggy Snow, Hseuh Hai-lun, and Lo Fu.
| 1907 September 21 | Born, Cedar City, Utah |
| 1925-1927 | Student, University of Utah |
| 1931-1941 | Lived in China and the Philippine Islands, held positions as a journalist, book reviewer, and editor |
| 1932 | Married Edgar Snow (divorced, 1949) |
| 1934-1935 | Student, Yenching University and Tsinghua University |
| 1937 | Visited the headquarters of Chinese Communist leaders in Yenan for four months |
| 1937 | Co-founder of Democracy magazine |
| 1938 | Co-founder of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative movement in Shanghai |
| 1939 | Author, Inside Red China |
| 1941-1951 | Board of Directors, American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives |
| 1941 | Co-author with Kim San, Song of Arian: The Life Story of an Asian Revolutionary |
| 1941 | Author, China Builds for Democracy: A Story of Cooperative Industry |
| 1945 | Author, The Chinese Labor Movement |
| 1952 | Editor, Red Dust: Autobiographies of Chinese Communists as Told to Nym Wales |
| 1952 | Author, Fables and Parables for the Mid-Century |
| 1958-1961 | 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 China |
| 1967 | Author, Women in Modern China |
| 1972 | Author, The Chinese Communists (in part a reprint of Red Dust) |
| 1972-1973 | Travelled in the Far East, including mainland China |
| 1984 | Author, My China Years: A Memoir |
| 1997 January 11 | Died, Guilford, Connecticut |
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Additional material constituting part of the Nym Wales Collection can be located by consulting the following Hoover Institution
Library card catalogs: Main catalog, Integrated Book Collection catalog, Society Publications catalog, Serials catalog, Newspaper
catalog; and in the East Asia Collection--Chinese catalog, Chinese periodical catalog, and particularly, the Special Collection
card file.
Printed material of the following organizations and publications has been integrated into the society publication, serial,
and newspaper collections of the library:
- Allied Labor News
- Amerasia
- Asia
- Asia and the Americas
- Asian Horizen
- C.B.I. Roundup
- Central News Agency, Peiping Branch
- China Aid Council, newsletter
- China Air Mail
- China at War
- China Clipper
- China Critic
- China Defense League
- China Defense League, newsletter
- China Digest
- China Forum (Shanghai)
- China Information Bulletin
- China Information Committee, news releases
- China Information Service, newsletter
- China Magazine
- China Press Weekly
- China Reference Series
- China Today
- China Weekly Review
- China Welfare Appeal
- China Youth
- Chinese Affairs
- Chinese delegation to the U.N., official press releases
- Chinese Nation
- Chinese News Service, special features and releases, Voice of China weekly edition
- Chinese Opinions on Current Events
- Chinese Press Editorials (Reuters translation)
- Chinese Recorder
- Chinese Workers' Correspondence
- Chinese Workers' Pictorial
- Chinese Writers Monthly
- Chinese Youth
- C.I.C. Newsletter
- Chengtu News Bulletin
- Committee for a Democratic Policy toward China, information bulletin
- Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy
- Contemporary China
- Current Comment on Events in China
- Daily Worker (London)
- Democratic Youth
- Far East Bulletin
- Far East Spotlight
- Far Eastern Mirror
- Far Eastern Policy News
- Far Eastern Quarterly
- Far Eastern Review
- Far Eastern Survey
- Gung Ho News
- Indian Information
- Indusco Bulletin
- Indusco C.I.C. News from China
- Indusco, Inc. American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives
- International Literature
- International Press Correspondence
- Korean Independence
- Kuo Min News Agency
- Labour Monthly
- Left News
- Nankai Social and Economic Quarterly
- National Reconstruction Journal
- New China Review
- New China Weekly News Letter
- News of China
- Northwest Indusco News
- Oriental Affairs (Shanghai)
- The Outlook
- Pacific Affairs
- Pacific Digest
- Peoples Age
- Philippines Herald
- Photo-History
- The Sentinel
- Service d'archives, bulletin mensuel
- The Showdown (Shanghai)
- Southwest Indusco News
- Szechuan Weekly Bulletin
- Tass translation service
- United China Relief
- Voice of China (China news by shortwave radio)
- Voks Bulletin
- Znamia
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Video tapes
Journalists
Communism -- China
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949
Chinese literature
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949
China -- Economic conditions -- 1912-1949
China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949
Chinese industrial cooperatives
Art -- China
Cooperative societies -- China
Fascism -- China
Labor movement -- China
Youth movements -- China
Industries -- China