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Cornell-in-China oral histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-321

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." Also, an interview with Evelyn Claasen, wife of Cornell entomologist Walter Claasen, describing her experiences in China, 1924-1925. Interviews were conducted by Gould Colman.

Dates

  • 1962.

Creator

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproduction of the John Lossing Buck transcript requires written permission from his literary executors or estate..

Extent

5 items. (5 items.)

Language of Materials

English

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