Scope and content Oral histories describing the experiences of Cornell University faculty members, former graduate students, and missionaries at the University of Nanking and elsewhere in China. Interviewees include J. Lossing Buck, John Reisner, Glenn W. Hedlund, and Stanley Warren on the development of an agricultural economics department at Nanking. Attached to Warren's interview is Buck's "Social and Economic Survey Losses in Rural Area in Vicinity of Shanghai Caused by Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1932." ...

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Collection consists of Professor George J. Thompson's files of circulars and letters regarding Cornell-in-China, Inc. while he was on the Board of Directors. Includes correspondence with Hugh A. Moran, John D. W. Fetter, Walter F. Willcox, Donald C. Kerr, and some Chinese students at Cornell. Also includes a records book, spanning 1942-1950, containing meeting minutes and correspondence.