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Chinese Students Association records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-6-1968

Scope and content

The Chinese Students Association records document the group’s events and activities, 1914-2012. The collection contains event invitations and programs including: an invitation to and program for the 10th anniversary celebration of the club, December 5, 1914; an invitation and program for an informal social, May 10, 1919; an invitation to annual reception, December 15, 1928; a program for a celebration of the 18th Anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China, October 1929; a program for Chinese National Night at the Cosmopolitan Club, April 28, 1917; programs, 2007-2011; and posters and other publicity materials for events, 2006-2012. Also included in the collection are six original group portrait prints (reproduced in the “Cornellian” for, respectively: 1930, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, and 1943); a membership directory, 1969; t-shirt commemorating the deaths of Chinese students in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, June 4, 1989 (sold in front of Willard Straight Hall, June 6, 1989); records of the group, 2005-2007; copies of the "Jade" newsletter, 2006, 2009; CDs of China Night, 2006, 2008; a name tag with CSA logo; and metal cash box used by the group.

Dates

  • 1914-2012.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

The Chinese Students Association at Cornell University was founded in 1904.

Extent

.6 cubic feet. (.6 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The Chinese Students Association at Cornell University was founded in 1904. The collection documents the group’s events and activities, 1914-2012, and contains event invitations and programs, publicity materials, photographs, and issues of the Association’s newsletter, “Jade.”

Description rules
Appm
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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