Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War: First-Person Accounts of Sino-Japanese Conflict N-Z

Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945
First Person Accounts of Sino-Japanese Conflict

N through Z

Updated: February 2001

The following is a preliminary bibliography of books written by Americans who observed Sino-Japanese conflict first-hand, as well as the location of private papers and manuscript collections (with short descriptions of those materials taken from the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections). The list also includes the names of others from the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and Canada in China during the 1931-1945 period whose private papers have not been located.

Please contact Steven Phillips (sphillip@towson.edu) with any corrections, additions, or suggestions.

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National Southwest United University. Japan's Aggression and Public Opinion, Compiled and Published by the National Southwest Associated University Library. Kumming, 1938.

Nelson, Donald.

Noonan, William. Lost Legion: Mission 204 and the Reluctant Dragon. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987.

Norton, Robert.

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Office of Strategic Services.
Record Group 38, United States National Archives and Records Administration.
See also microfilm collection by the University Publication of America, O.S.S./State Department intelligence and research reports, part III, China and India.

Office of Strategic Services, Research and Analysis Branch. Programs of Japan in Manchukuo, with Biographies. Honolulu: Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services, 1945.
FCC intercepts of short wave broadcasts, except those of a purely military nature, from Radio Tokyo and affiliated stations, and from OSS sources.
Microfilm. Washington : University Publications of America, 1977.
See also Personnel of the North China Political Council; People and Government in East Asia: A Survey of Conditions in Fukien, Chekiang, and Kiangsu; and Japanese Infiltration among Muslims in China.

Office of War Information.
United States National Archives and Records Administration.

Officer, Keith, Sir, 1889-1969.
Papers.
Size: 3.2 m.
Collection contains correspondence, diaries, notes, photographs, publications and cuttings from Officer's career as a public servant, diplomat, and as a member of the Institute of Pacific Relations and the Royal Institute of International Relations. The diaries date from 1911 to 1969. Correspondents include Sir Clive Baillieu, Lord Bruce, Lord Casey, Sir Owen Dixon, Sir William Dunk, Sir Peter Heydon, W.R. Hodgson, Hugh McClure-Smith, Sir Laurence McIntyre, Sir Robert Menzies, Sir William Harrison Moore, Keith Shann, Alfred Stirling, Sir Arthur Tange, Sir Alan Watt and Sir Thomas White.
National Library of Australia, Manuscript Section.

Overesch, Commander Harvey E. American naval attaché to China, 1937.

Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Home Council (United States).
Records, 1853-present.
Description: 7 boxes (5.25 cubic feet).
Nondenominational evangelical mission agency, founded as China Inland Mission in 1865 by James Hudson Taylor. The mission focused its effort on evangelism and church planting in rural communities of inland China untilxpelled in 1950 by Chinese Communists. The mission was later renamed Overseas Missionary Fellowship and began working in other Asian countries, at first in their Chinese communities and then their broader populations.
Billy Graham Center Archives.

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Page, Earle.
Papers.
Cables on Japanese movements prior to declaration of war. Notes on discussions held while in Europe, 1941. File on action from outbreak of war up to the fall of Singapore. Typescript of diary.
Australian War Memorial, Research Centre.

P`an, Chao-ying. China Fights on: An Inside Story of China's Long Struggle Against our Common Enemies. London: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1945.

Paneth, Philip. Chiang Kai-shek Carries On. London: Alliance Press Limited, 1944.

Parabel Project records, 1949-1950.
Description: 4 ms. boxes.
Project undertaken by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace in cooperation with the Operations Research Office, Johns Hopkins University. Writings, translations, notes, and questionnaire responses, relating to a comparative study of underground movements in China, France, Italy, Kurdistan, and Poland, 1939-1947. Project sponsored by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and the Johns Hopkins University.
Hoover Institution.

Patterson, Robert.

Paxton, John Hall. Second Secretary at the Nanjing Embassy, 1937.

Payne, Robert. Chungking Diary. London: W. Heinemann, 1945.

Pearson, Drew. Correspondent for the Washington Post.

Peck, Graham (American Office of War Information employee in Guilin). Through China's Wall. London: Collins, 1941.

-------. Two Kinds of Time. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967.

-------. China: The Rremembered Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

Peck, Willys Ruggles, 1882-1952.
Papers, 1911-1952.
Description: 3 ms. boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 envelope.
American diplomatic and consular official in China, 1906-1926 and 1931-1940; minister to Thailand, 1941-1942.
Hoover Institution.

-------. State Department Aid to Cultural Exchange with China. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944.

Peffer, Nathaniel (American international relations specialist in China). Prerequisites to Peace in the Far East. New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1940.

-------. Basis for Peace in the Far East. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942.

Penfield, James K. Second Secretary of the American embassy in China.

Perkins, Troy L. With American Department of State, Division of Chinese Affairs.

Peterkin, Wilbur J.
Papers, 1943-1994.
Description: 8 ms. boxes, 2 envelopes, 1 album box, 3 motion picture film reels, 1 microfilm reel, 2 videotape cassettes, memorabilia.
Colonel, United States Army; executive officer and commanding officer, Observer Mission with Chinese communist forces, Yenan, China, 1944-1945.
Hoover Institution.

-------. Inside China, 1943-1945: An Eyewitness Account of America's Mission in Yenan. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1992.

Pettus, William Winston, 1912-1945.
William Winston Pettus papers, 1928-1945 (inclusive)
Description: 1 linear ft. (3 boxes).
William Winston Pettus: appointed professor of surgery at Hsiang-Ya Hospital in Changsha, Hunan, 1940, where he remained until the Japanese occupation in 1942; returned to U.S. to continue studies in surgery; returned to China to work in the relocated Hsiang-Ya Hospital, 1944-1945.
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Phelps, Lt. Paul C. Involved with the American Office of Strategic Services in China.

Philips, Martha H.
Oral history interview, 1985.
Description: 3 reels of audio tape (3 hours).
Missionary; born in 1905; graduated from Prairie Bible Institute in Alberta, Canada, 1936; went to China with the China Inland Mission in 1936 and taught at the Chefoo School for missionary children; was interned with other faculty and students of the school by the Japanese, 1941-1943.
Billy Graham Archives Center.

Phillips, Ralph W. Animal husbandry expert in China.

Plymire, Victor Guy.
Papers, 1908-1957.
Description: 3 boxes (2.25 cubic feet).
Assemblies of God missionary; born January 10, 1881; except for brief furloughs served as missionary in Tibet and China, 1912-1949; first went as member of the Church Herald Society, but later joined the Assemblies of God; worked mostly in evangelism and church planting; died December 8, 1956.
Billy Graham Center.

Power, Desmond. Little Foreign Devil. West Vancouver, B.C.: Pangli Imprint, 1996.

Powell, John B. My Twenty-Five Years in China. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945.

Also publisher of China Monthly Review.

Presenting China. Sydney: Ministry of Information, China (Australian Office), 1945.

Price Family.
Papers, 1855-1997.
Description: 10 ms. boxes, 1 oversize box.
Family of Charles T. Price, British missionary in Madagascar; his son, Hereward T. Price, German soldier and Russian prisoner during World War I; and his grandson, Arnold H. Price, United States Office of Strategic Services officer and Department of State official. Correspondence, diaries, orders, memoranda, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia, relating to missionary work in Madagascar, 1875-1882; German prisoners of war in Siberia during World War I; the Russian Revolution; social conditions in China; Allied secret service and radio propaganda activities in World War II; and postwar American diplomacy.
Hoover Institution.

Price, Earnest B. American diplomat in China, later a scholar and businessman.

Price, Frank W. (Frank Wilson), 1895-1974.
Papers, 1929-1949.
Description: 2 ft.
Correspondence, journals, speeches, notes, memos, and clippings, relating to Price's work as a Presbyterian missionary serving in China, 1923-1952; educator at Nanking Theological Seminary and West China Union University; organizer of rural religious and social reforms; adviser and personal friend to Chiang Kai-shek; adviser to the Chinese delegation to the San Francisco UNCIO Conference (1945); and adviser to Chinese officials of the National Military Council.
George C. Marshall Research Foundation Library (Lexington, Va.).

Price, Harry. With China Defense Supplies in China.

Pruitt, Ida.
Papers, 1911-1948.
Description: 1 folder.
American missionary in China; member, American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, 1940-1951.
Hoover Institution.

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Rappe, Dr. C. Bertram. Treasurer for missionary organizations in Chongqing.

Reck, Dickson. American specialists in industrial standards in China.

Rees, Ronald. China Can Take It. London: Edinburgh House Press, 1942.

Rhodes, H. Winston. War over the Pacific. Christchurch, N.Z.: Co-operative Book Society, 1941.

Rice, Edward E. Second Secretary of American embassy in China.

Richards, J. Bartlett. American Commercial Attaché.

Ringwalt, Arthur R. American diplomat in China.

Robert, Captain Frank N. Assistant Military Attaché in China, 1937.

Rockwood, Charles Parkman, 1916-1970.
Charles Parkman Rockwood papers, 1939-1945 (inclusive).
Description: .5 linear ft. (1 box).
Instructor at Yale-in-China, 1940-1941; served with Office of War Information psychological warfare teams in India, Burma, China, 1943-1945; from 1947-1950 worked for American Institute of Pacific Relations; from 1950-1955 staff associate of the Twentieth Century Fund; from 1955-1963 public relations director of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; from 1963- member of executive staff of Haskins and Sells, public accountants.
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Rockefeller Foundation.
Administration, Program and Policy records, 1913-1989.
Description: 194 cubic ft.
This record group of the Rockefeller Foundation archives includes correspondence, memoranda and reports reflecting the decisions made and agendas established by the officers and trustees as well as the day to day details of running the Foundation. The material documents the RF's initial interest in a field and the development of a strategy to support it, including consultant's reports, investigations and surveys. Included is a 21-volume history of the Foundation's programs (1909-1939).
The Rockefeller Archive Center, North Tarrytown.

Rodewald, Don.
Reminiscences of Don Rodewald and Wilfred Schaper oral history, 1962.
Description: Transcript: 40 leaves.
Forms part of: Flying Tigers project.
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano.
See the Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York.

Rosinger, Lawrence Kaelter. China's Crisis. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1945.

Rowe, David Nelson.
Papers, 1931-1974.
Description: 141 ms. boxes, 1 oversize box.
American political scientist; special assistant to the United States ambassador to China, 1941-1942.
Hoover Institution.

Russell, Maud.
Papers, 1914-1990, bulk (1918-1989).
Description: 30 linear feet (82 boxes).
Maud Muriel Russell (1893-1989) was a social worker with the YWCA in China from 1917 to 1943, and then executive director of the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy from 1946 to 1952.
Manuscripts & Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

Rutherford, Minter R. American Vice Consul in Kunming.

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Salisbury, Laurence E., 1891-1976.
Papers, 1916-1973.
Description: 4 ms. boxes, 2 envelopes.
American diplomat; deputy assistant chief, Division of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, 1941-1944; editor, Far Eastern Survey, 1944-1948.
Hoover Institution.

Sandilands, Roger J. (Roger James), 1945-
Miscellaneous papers, 1941-1994.
Description: 1 folder.
Correspondence, notes, and clippings, relating to the career of the American economist Lauchlin Currie, and particularly to his role in the dispatch of the Flying Tigers to China in 1941.
Hoover Institution.

Sapajou, with R. T. Peyton-Griffin. Shanghai's Schemozzle. Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald, 1937-1938. Reprinted from cartoons in the North-China Daily News.

Savage, John L. American hydro-electric power expert in China.

Sawyer, John Birge.
Diaries of John Birge Sawyer.
Vols. 2-5: 1911-1936, cover his work with Immigration Bureau at Portland and Angel Island; consular service at Hong Kong and Shanghai. Comments on Chinese culture, Chinese immigration; domestic and professional life; problems and scandals of bureaucracy; foreign community in China; excursions and travels; political and civil strife in China. (V. 2: 1911-1918; v.3: 1918-1922; v.4: 1922-1930; v.5: 1930-1936). V.6: 1936-1962, covers Shanghai during WW II; internment by Japanese forces; repatriation; consular work at Ciudad Juárez and Nogales; retirement.
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Schneider, Captain James W. United States Army officer, met Yen Hsi-shan in 1944.

Schoerner, Otto Frederick, and Katherine Dodd Schoerner.
Papers, 1949, 1978-1979.
Description: 2 reels of audio tape (3 hours).
Topics covered include his family, education, missionary work in China with China Inland Mission,language learning, work at Borden Memorial Hospital, church-state relations, the culture, politics and religion of China, communism, his wife Katherine, missions to Muslims and Buddhists, Owen Lattimore, George Hunter, Percy Mather, his missionary call, training and financing, the Sino-Japanese Conflict and China's Civil War, and other mission-related topics.
Billy Graham Archives Center.

Sien, Foon. Three Years' Resistance: A Comprehensive Review of Events in the Sino-Japanese War. Vancouver, 1940.

Shanghai under Fire. Shanghai: Post-Mercury Co., 1938.

Shuhart, Donald V. American soil erosion specialist in China.

Service, John S. The Amerasia Papers: Some Problems in the History of US-China Relations. Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, 1971.

-------. Edited by Joseph W. Esherick. Lost Chance in China: The World War II Despatches of John S. Service. New York: Vintage Books, 1974.

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State Department duty in China, the McCarthy Era, and after, 1933-1977: Oral history transcript of John Stewart.
Comments on parents, Roy and Grace Service and their YMCA work in China; work in U.S. Foreign Service, 1933-42, with various posts in China; political events; growing strength of communists and civil war in China; assignment as political advisor to General Stilwell in World War II; political reporting and intelligence work; resumption of foreign service career, 1945-50; charges brought by McCarthy and dismissal from State Dept.; reinstatement, 1957, and work until retirement, 1962.
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.

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John S. Service papers, 1934-1981.
Description: 3 cartons, 1 box, 2 oversize folders (3.75 linear ft.).
The Bancroft Library, University of California.

Service, Richard M. American Vice Consul in Kweilin (Guilin).

Shanahan, Reverend Cormac. Correspondent for American Catholic publications.

Sien, Foon. Three Years' Resistance: A Comprehensive Review of Events in the Sino-Japanese War. Vancouver, 1940.

Simpson, Malcolm D. Secretary of the American Group of the China Consortium.

Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO).
Hoover Institution.

Sino-American Cultural Service.

Small, Elizabeth Stair.
Oral history interview, 1980.
Description:1 reel of audio tape (1.5 hours).
Missionary; born Elizabeth Stair in 1904; attended Moody Bible Institute, 1928-1930; served as missionary to China with China Inland Mission, 1931-1948; married Robertson Small, 1944; worked with churches in Wisconsin, 1949-1979; retired to Phoenix, Arizona, 1980.
Billy Graham Center.

Smalley, Martha Lund. Introduction by Beatrice S. Bartlett. American missionary eyewitnesses to the Nanking Massacre, 1937-1938. New Haven: Yale Divinity School Library, 1997.

Smith, Edwin K. American metallurgy specialist in China during the war.

Smith, Horace H. American consul in Tihwa.

Smith, Richard Harris. Representative of British-American Tobacco in China.
Hoover Institution.

Smith, Sebie Biggs.
Reminiscences of Sebie Biggs Smith: oral history, 1981.
Description: Transcript: 159 leaves.
Flight and mechanical training U.S. Army Air Corps, 1930-1936; experiences in China, relations with Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Colonel Claire Chennault, aircraft assembly and repair, Chinese Japanese War, beginnings of the Flying Tigers.
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office,Butler Library.

Smedley, Agnes.
Agnes Smedley collection, 1911-1981.
Description: 7.5 ft. (46 v.).
Contains newsclippings, photographs, speeches, lecture notes, printed matter, correspondence and artefacts extending from 1911-1981. The bulk of the collection consists of newsclippings, photographs and reprints concerning Smedley's career as a journalist in China, and also events in China during the Japanese conflict and World War II from 1938-1948.
Arizona Collection, Hayden Library, Arizona State University.

-------. China Fights Back: An American Woman with the Eighth Route Army. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1938.

-------. China Correspondent. Boston: Pandora Press, 1984. Reprint. Originally published as Battle Hymn of China. London: Gollancz, 1943.

Smythe, Professor Lewis. Involved with bringing American technical experts toChina.

Snow, Edgar. The Battle for Asia. New York: The World Publishing Company, 1942.

-------. China Resists. Calcutta: Modern Publishers, 1944.

-------. People on our Side. New York: Random House, 1944.

-------. Red Star over China. New York: Modern Library, 1944.

-------. Random Notes on Red China (1936-1946). Cambridge: Chinese Economic and Political Studies, Harvard University; distributed by Harvard University Press, 1957.

Snow, Helen Foster. See also Wales, Nym.
Oral History.
New York Times Oral History Program. Columbia University Oral History.

Snow, Lois Wheeler, Compiler. Edgar Snow's China: A Personal Cccount of the Chinese Revolution Compiled from the Writings of Edgar Snow. New York: Random House, 1981.

Solecki, Jan Jozef. Escape to Life. North Vancouver: Jotulusa Trade & Management Inc., 1998.

Soong May-ling. China Shall Rise Again. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941.

Soong, T. V. (Tzu-wen).
Papers, 1920-1960.
Description: 57 ms. boxes, 1 oversize box, 2 envelopes, 3 album boxes, 2 microfilm reels, memorabilia.
Chinese statesman and banker; minister of finance, 1925-1933; personal representative of Chiang Kai-shek to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940-1942; minister of foreign affairs, 1942-1945.
Hoover Institution.

Sowerby, Arthur de Carle, 1885-1954.
Papers, 1904-1954.
Description:11.38 linear ft.
Naturalist and editor born in Shanxi Province. Curator of Natural History Museum, Tientsin Anglo-Chinese College, technical officer, Chinese Labor Corps in France during World War I, and editor of The China Journal of Science and Arts, and as Japanese internee at Shanghai during World War II.
Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Spicer, Eva Dykes. Chinese Women and the War. Chungking: The China information committee, 1940.

Sprouse, Philip D. Third Secretary of American embassy in China.

Stanton, Edwin F. Assistant Chief, Division of Far Eastern Affairs, United States Department of State.

Stanton, W. T. Employee of the American Foreign Economic Administration in China.

State Department, United States.
Files at the United States National Archives and Records Administration, record groups 59 and 84. Many documents from the central files are available on microfilm.

Stein, Guenther. The Challenge of Red China. London: Pilot Press Ltd., 1945.

Stelle, Captain Charles. American with the Office of Strategic Services in Yenan.

Steven, Major H. C. American Office of Strategic Services.

Stevens, Harry E. United States Department of State.

Stevens, W. Mackenzie. American specialist in China.

Stewart, James L. Assistant Director of the American Office of War Information in Chongqing.

Stewart, Maxwell Slutz. War-Time China. New York: American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1944.

Stilwell, Joseph Warren.
Papers, 1889-1994.
Description: 68 ms. boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 cu. ft. box, 1 oversize folder, 83 envelopes, 4 boxes of slides, 10 scrapbooks, 8 rolls of maps and charts, 4 phonotape cassettes, memorabilia.
General, United States Army; commanding general, United States Forces in China-Burma-India Theater, and commander, Chinese armies in Burma, 1942-1944.
Hoover Institution. See also Records of U.S. Theaters of War, World War II, record group 332, at the United States National Archives.

-------. Edited by Riley Sunderland and Charles F. Romanus. Stilwell's Personal File--China, Burma, India, 1942-1944. 5 Volumes. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1976.

-------. The Stilwell Papers, Arranged and Edited by Theodore H. White. New York: W. Sloane Associates, 1948.

Stoelzner, Erich.
Typescript memoirs, 1964.
Description: 47 p. (in 1 folder).
German military adviser to the Chinese Nationalist Government, 1928-1957.
Hoover Institution.

Strong, Anna Louise Strong. One-Fifth of Mankind. New York: Modern Age Books, 1938.

-------. The Kuomintang-Communist Crisis in China: A First-Hand Account of One of the Most Critical Period s in Far Eastern History. 1941. Reprinted from Amerasia, March 1941.

-------. China's New Crisis. London: Fore Publications, Ltd., 1942.

Stuart, Gilbert.
Typescript memoirs.
Description: 1 ms. box.
Colonel, Chinese Nationalist Army.
Hoover Institution.

Stuart, John Leighton. Fifty Years in China: The Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, Missionary and Ambassador. New York: Random House, 1954.

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Miscellaneous papers, 1945-1959.
Description: 1 ms. box.

United States ambassador to China and Taiwan, 1946-1953.
Hoover Institution.

Sues, Ilona Ralf. Shark's Fins and Millet. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944.

Suma Yakichiro. Where Japan Stands: Addresses Delivered in America on the Sino-Japanese Conflict. Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1940.

Sumner, John D. Economic advisor to American embassy in China.

Sweet, Lennig. With United China Relief.

Swenson, Herman. With the Scandinavian Alliance Mission.

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Talbot, Lt. Comdr. Phillips. American Assistant Naval Attaché.

Takaishi, Shingoro. Japan Speaks Out. Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1938.

Tappan, David S. and Luella R.
Papers, 1913-1966.
Description: 1.5 lin. ft. (3 boxes).
Presbyterian missionaries to Hainan, China. Rev. Tappan founded the Hainan Christian Middle School and served as Executive Secretary to the Presbyterian mission.
University of Oregon Library.

Taylor, George Edward. Japanese Sponsored Regime in North China. New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1939.

Taylor family.
Papers of Harry Baylor Taylor and his wife Alma Booth Taylor.
Description: 9,600 items.
Accounts include those of the occupation by the Nationalist Southern Army and his forced evacuation, his 1929 return and rebuilding, theJapanese conquest, the U.S.S. Panay incident and his efforts to rescue the survivors, the family's evacuation from Kuling, his 1942 house arrest andprison camp life. Also included are accounts of his 1943 repatriation, intervening years at Berea College, the return of the family to China in 1947, occupation by the communists in 1949, and his forced return to the U.S, in 1951.
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections Department, Alderman Library.

Taylor, Floyd. American specialist with the Republic of China’s Ministry of Information.

Taylor, George E. The Struggle for North China. New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1940.

Tennien, Mark A. Chungking Listening Post. New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., 1945.

Timberman, General Thomas S. On General Stilwell's staff in China.

Tipton, Laurance. Chinese Escapade. London: Macmillan, 1949.

Tripp, John T. American biologist in China.

Tunnicliff, Everett A. American veterinarian in China.

Turnage, Col. Allen Hal. Commander of the American Marine embassy guard in Beijing.

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Ueda, Hiroshi, pseud. Yellow Dust: By a Tommy Atkins on the China Front. Tokyo: Yuhodo, 1939.

United China Relief.
United China Relief records, 1928-1947.
Description: 1.6 linear feet (4 boxes).
United China Relief was founded in 1941 in New York City for the purpose of raising funds to aid the Chinese people. In order to raise funds more efficiently, several organizations joined together as United China Relief. Among the founding organizations were the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, the Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China, the China Emergency Relief Committee, the Church Committee for China Relief, and the China Aid Council.
Rare Books & Manuscripts Division, The New York Public Library.

United China Relief/United Service to China.
Records, 1941-1966.
Description: 48.90 cu. ft. (92 boxes, 7 cartons, 1 oversize scrapbook).
Consists of records of an umbrella organization, originally known as United China Relief (1941-1945) and later as United Service to China (1946-1966), which coordinated various agencies in their wartime and post-war civilian relief activities to aid the people of Nationalist China, first on the mainland and subsequently on Taiwan.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.

United China Relief Series. Chungking: The China Publishing Company, 1941.

United Service to China. Western Medical Assistance to China during 1943-44 in the Field of Medicine and Health. New York, 1944.

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. China Office.
Records, 1943-1948.
Description: 39 ms. boxes.
International organization for World War II relief and reconstruction.
Hoover Institution.

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Country missions/offices records, 1943-1949.
Description: 1753 linear ft. (2157 cubic ft.).
United Nations Archives, New York, NY.

Utley, Freda. Japan's Gamble in China. London: Secker and Warburg, 1938.

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Papers, 1886-1978.
Description: 87 ms. boxes, 11 envelopes.
British-American author, lecturer, and journalist; director, American-China Policy Association.
Hoover Institution.

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Vincentians.
China missions, 1920-1958.
Description: 11 cubic ft.
Vincentian Fathers based in Kanchow, Kiangsi province, China from 1921-1954.
St. John's University, Jamaica, NY.

Votaw, Maurice. American employee of the ROC Ministry of Information.

Vincent, John Carter. Counselor, then Chief of the Division of Chinese Affairs.

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Wales, Nym. Pen name of Helen Foster Snow.
Papers, 1931-1998.
Description: 62 ms. boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 album box, 33 envelopes, 2 slide boxes, 11 oversize folders, 1 videotape cassette.
American journalist and writer; member, Board of Directors, American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, 1941-1951.
Hoover Institution.

-------. My China Years: A Memoir. New York: Morrow, 1984.

Wallace, Henry A. Wartime Vice President of the United States.
Papers stored at theUniversity of Iowa, the Library of Congress, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

Wallenstein, Gerd D.
Papers, 1821-1994.
1 oversize box.
German-American engineer; resident in China, 1939-1947.
Hoover Institution.

Wampler, Ernest M. China Suffers: Or, My Six Years of Work during the Incident. Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House, 1945.

Wang, Ching-chun. Japan's Continental Adventure. London : G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1941.

Wang Ming. China can win!: The New Stage in the Aggression of Japanese Imperialism and the New Period in the Struggle of the Chinese People. New York: Workers Library, 1937.

War Damage in the Nanking Area, December, 1937 to March, 1938. Shanghai: The Mercury Press, 1938.

War Department, United States. Edited by Lyman P. Van Slyke. The Chinese Communist Movement: A Report of the United States War Department, July 1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1968.

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United States War Department files are now stored at the National Archives. Selected series of documents, such as Correspondence of the Military Intelligence Division relating to general, political, economic, and military conditions in China 1918-1941, are available on microfilm.

Ward, Robert S. Hong Kong under Japanese Occupation: A Case Study in the Enemy's Techniques of Control. Prepared by Robert S. Ward, American Consul, detailed to the Far Eastern Unit, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Dept. of Commerce. Washington, 1943.

Wartime China as Seen by Westerners. Chungking: China Pub. Co., 1942.

Wasser, Lee Q. American Military Air Attaché to China.

Wedemeyer, Major General Albert C.
Papers, 1899-1988.
Description: 141 ms. boxes, 10 oversize boxes, 2 motion picture film reels, 2 albums, 72 envelopes, 19 phonorecords, 1 phonotape cassette, 2 maps, memorabilia.
General, United States Army; chief, Strategy and Policy Section, Operations Division, General taff, 1942-1943; deputy chief of staff, Combined Anglo-American Southeast Asia Command, 1943-1944; commanding general, United States Forces, China Theater, and chief of staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, 1944-1946; special envoy to China and Korea, 1947.
Hoover Institution.

-------. Wedemeyer Reports. New York: Holt, 1958.

Wei Tao-ming. Chinese diplomat.

Whelan, Russell. The Flying Tigers: The Story of the American Volunteer Group. New York: The Viking Press, 1942.

White, Theodore, and Annalee Jacoby. Thunder out of China. New York: William Sloane Associates, 1961.

-------. Articles on the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party and the reply of Dr. Liang Han-chao to the article on the Kuomintang. 1943.

Whiting, Charles Jonathan.
Papers, 1925-1969.
Description: 9 ms. boxes, 1 album box.
Rear admiral, U.S. Navy; judge advocate, court of inquiry investigating the Panay incident, 1937. Orders, reports, correspondence, photographs, and motion picture film, relating to the sinking of the U.S. gunboat Panay in China, 1937; to other activities of the U.S. Navy in China, 1937-1940; and to American naval operations in the Atlantic and Mediterranean during World War II.
Hoover Institution.

Wilder, George D. (George Durand).
Papers, 1904 and 1910-1943.
Description: 1 linear ft.
Missionary to China, ca. 1900-1939. Letters, 1911-1932, to family members describing in detail missionary life, the political situation in China, and family matters; diary, 1942-1943, describing internment in Peking by the Japanese Army; letter of son, Theodore Stanley Wilder, to his grandmother concerning China.
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Willauer, Whiting.
Whiting Willauer papers, 1916-1962 (bulk 1941-1955).
Description: 4.95 linear ft. (10 boxes, 1 oversize folder).
Consists of papers of Willauer (Princeton Class of 1928) relating mainly to his official, semi-official, and private concerns in China during and after World War II when he was executive secretary (1941-1944) for China Defense Supplies, Inc., which purchased airplanes for Claire Lee Chennault's American Volunteer Group known as the "Flying Tigers;" director (1944-1945) of the Far East branch of the Foreign Economic Administration; and president and vice-chairman of the board of the Civil Air Transport (CAT) company in China, co-founded with Chennault.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.

Williams, John M.
Reminiscences of John M. Williams: oral history.
Description: Transcript: 84 leaves.
Early years in Army Air Corps; operations in China, 1939-1948: thefts, logistics, training, warning systems, instructor in Chinese air cadet school, relations with Chinese; combat with Flying Tigers; duty after World War II; reminiscences of General Claire Chennauet, other military leaders.
Columbia University Oral History Research Office, Butler Library.

Woodard, Granville O. With the Division of Chinese Affairs, United States Department of State.

Wu Tung Pi. Memorandum on China's Liberated Areas: A Factual Report on Chinese Areas Liberated from Japanese Occupation. San Francisco, 1945.

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Yale-China Association.
Yale-China Association records.
Description: 113.75 linear ft.
Plans for a Yale Mission in China were first formulated in 1901. In 1902 the Yale Foreign Missionary Society was organizated and Lawrence Thurston travelled to China in order to contact missionary groups and investigate locations for a mission. World War II forced the school's evacuation and rebuilding efforts were halted by the evacuation of mainland personnel in 1948.
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Yale Univesity, Yale Divinity Library.
The China Records Project.
Approximately 950 linear feet of manuscript materials related to mission work and the Christian church in China, and the records of more than 300 former China missionaries.
The Divinity Library also holds important microfilm collections, including the International Missionary Council (1910-1961), London Missionary Society (1822-1940), Methodist Missionary Society (British) (1851-1946), and Presbyterian Church of England Board of Foreign Missions (1863-1950). Also holds many missionary periodicals.

Yale in World War II collection, 1939-1946.
Description: 6 linear ft. (12 boxes).
The collection consists of printed matter, reports, correspondence, memoranda, radio scripts, memorabilia, scrapbooks and clippings documenting some of the activities at Yale University and of the individual colleges during World War II. Letters from Yale men in the services, both in the United States and abroad, to officials of the university make up a substantial part of the collection. Also included are correspondence and financial documents of the "Yale Library Project," a military intelligence operation secretly funded by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services.
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Yarnell, Admiral Harry E.
Commander in Chief, US Asiatic Fleet, Shanghai, 1937.
Personal and official correspondence, reports. writings, notes, printed matter, and other papers, relating to conditions in the Far East before and during the renewal of hostilities between China and Japan (1937-1938), including evacuation of U.S. citizens from China, military operations of Japanese and Chinese troops, the Japanese blockade, and the situation at Kiukiang. Includes pamphlets and articles concerning the Far East in the 1930's, copies of the North China Daily News (1937 Aug.-Nov.), and an unpublished article by William A. Angwin entitled "The China Incident" (1938) containing an account of the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay. Correspondents include William H. Allen, Frank H. Clark, Clarence E. Gauss, Nelson T. Johnson, J. Weldon Jones, William D. Leahy, Charles Little, and Frank P. Lockhart.
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Forms part of the Naval Historical Foundation collection.

Yeaton, Ivan D.
Papers, 1908-1979.
Description: 7 ms. boxes, 1 oversize box, 7 envelopes.
Colonel, United States Army; military attaché in the Soviet Union, 1939-1941; commanding officer, Yenan Observer Group in China, 1945-1946.
Hoover Institution and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Iowa.

Yeh Chien-ying (Ye Jianying). Report on the General Military Situation of the Chinese Communist Party in the War of Resistance. Yenan? 1944.

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.
Shanghai collection, 1900-1948.
Description:. 3 linear ft.
Shanghai ghetto was established by Japanese occupying forces in 1943. Many Jews living in Japanese occupied territory and Jewish refugees who had fled to Shanghai from 1938-1941 to escape Nazi oppression in Austria, Poland, and Russia were interned. The ghetto was in existence until 1945.
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, New York.

Young, Arthur N. (Arthur Nichols).
Papers, 1918-1982.
Description: 119 ms. boxes, 1 envelope, 1 oversize box, 1 phonotape cassette.
American economist; economic adviser, United States Department of State, 1922-1928; financial adviser, government of China and Central Bank of China, 1929-1946.
Hoover Institution.

-------, Editor. China Faces Japan. New York: Chinese Students' Christian Association in North America, 1937.

------. China and the Helping Hand, 1937-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.

------. China's Wartime Finance and Inflation, 1937-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.

-------. China's Nation-Building Effort, 1927-1937: The Financial and Economic Record. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1971.

Young, Clarence Kuangson, Editor. The Sino-Japanese Conflict and the League of Nations, 1937: Speeches, Documents, Press Comments. Geneva: Press Bureau of the Chinese Delegation, 1937.

Youngman, William S. President of China Defense Supplies.

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Zhang, C. K. (Chun Kiang).
Oral memoirs of Zhang Chun Kiang (C. K. Zhang).
Career as professor and department chair in sociology and university administrator at the University of Shanghai (1939-1952) and founder and honorary pastor of University Baptist Church, Shanghai; effects of twentieth-century wars, civil wars, and governmental changes in China on Christian universities and churches; imprisonment and remolding as a historical counterrevolutionary; appointment to faculty of Anhui Normal University language department.
Baylor University Institute for Oral History.