CHINESE CIVIL WAR: A YALE-CHINA ASSOCIATION ARCHIVE., Anthony, B Kenneth. Faculty of Yale-in-China.
CHINESE CIVIL WAR: A YALE-CHINA ASSOCIATION ARCHIVE.
Anthony, B Kenneth. Faculty of Yale-in-China. An extensive archive on life and events in China, gelatin silver prints, correspondence, postcards and ephemera. China: 1928-1931.
The archive comprising:
1. Approximately 670 gelatin silver photographs, various sizes, 140 x 185 mm through 64 x 43 mm, contained in 7 accordion style albums, 260 x 182 mm.
2. Collection of correspondence from Yale-in-China faculty member B. Kenneth Anthony to his family in the Boston area.
3. Extensive collection of postcards of China and Korea as well as travel ephemera.
Provenance: B Kenneth Anthony, by descent
A FINE AMERICAN ARCHIVE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND COMMENTARY ON THE ESCALATING CIVIL WAR IN CHINA BETWEEN THE NATIONALISTS AND COMMUNISTS
Yale-in-China, now known as the Yale-China Association, was founded in 1901 as a Protestant Missionary Society by a group of Yale University graduates and faculty members. The base of operations was Changsha in Hunan Province. Famously, Mao Zedong, as a young man, ran a bookstore on the campus and edited the student magazine in 1919/1920.
The present archive from Yale graduate, B. Kenneth Anthony, dates from 1928, when he arrived in Changsha, to 1931, when he was forced to flee China. It chronicles his experiences as he journeys to China to take a faculty position at Yale-in-China in Changsha, a subsequent honeymoon trip throughout China, Korea and Japan and his account of the ongoing Chinese Civil War.
The photographs include a mixture of the sights of various regions along with portraits and views of the people he met. Areas and sites covered include: Changsha, Dezhou (Tehchow), Shanghai, Hankow, Yangtze Valley, Beijing, the Forbidden City, Beiping (Peiping), Chufu, Taishan, Tsing Tao, Wuchung, Nanking, Taiku, Oberlin-Shanshi Academy, Diamond Mountains, and Changsha ruins after a skirmish with Communists, etc.
Anthony's letters home to his family include details of campus life and the people of China, as well as the political situation regarding the the Civil War between the Nationalists and Communists, a situation that led him to flee the area in 1931.
It is rare to find an in-depth western viewpoint of the internal struggle in China at this time, particularly taken from within China, as China struggled to determine its destiny.
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CHINESE CIVIL WAR: A YALE-CHINA ASSOCIATION ARCHIVE.
Anthony, B Kenneth. Faculty of Yale-in-China. An extensive archive on life and events in China, gelatin silver prints, correspondence, postcards and ephemera. China: 1928-1931.
The archive comprising:
1. Approximately 670 gelatin silver photographs, various sizes, 140 x 185 mm through 64 x 43 mm, contained in 7 accordion style albums, 260 x 182 mm.
2. Collection of correspondence from Yale-in-China faculty member B. Kenneth Anthony to his family in the Boston area.
3. Extensive collection of postcards of China and Korea as well as travel ephemera.
Provenance: B Kenneth Anthony, by descent
A FINE AMERICAN ARCHIVE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND COMMENTARY ON THE ESCALATING CIVIL WAR IN CHINA BETWEEN THE NATIONALISTS AND COMMUNISTS
Yale-in-China, now known as the Yale-China Association, was founded in 1901 as a Protestant Missionary Society by a group of Yale University graduates and faculty members. The base of operations was Changsha in Hunan Province. Famously, Mao Zedong, as a young man, ran a bookstore on the campus and edited the student magazine in 1919/1920.
The present archive from Yale graduate, B. Kenneth Anthony, dates from 1928, when he arrived in Changsha, to 1931, when he was forced to flee China. It chronicles his experiences as he journeys to China to take a faculty position at Yale-in-China in Changsha, a subsequent honeymoon trip throughout China, Korea and Japan and his account of the ongoing Chinese Civil War.
The photographs include a mixture of the sights of various regions along with portraits and views of the people he met. Areas and sites covered include: Changsha, Dezhou (Tehchow), Shanghai, Hankow, Yangtze Valley, Beijing, the Forbidden City, Beiping (Peiping), Chufu, Taishan, Tsing Tao, Wuchung, Nanking, Taiku, Oberlin-Shanshi Academy, Diamond Mountains, and Changsha ruins after a skirmish with Communists, etc.
Anthony's letters home to his family include details of campus life and the people of China, as well as the political situation regarding the the Civil War between the Nationalists and Communists, a situation that led him to flee the area in 1931.
It is rare to find an in-depth western viewpoint of the internal struggle in China at this time, particularly taken from within China, as China struggled to determine its destiny.
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