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Collection Overview
Abstract
Fu Liang Chang, originally of Shanghai, China, first visited the United States as a student at Yale University on scholarship from the Boxer Indemnity Fund. Upon graduation he married Louise H. Huie and returned to China to serve as professor and Dean of the Middle School Department of Yale-in-China, in Changsha from 1913 to 1926. He was also involved with organizations such as: Chinese-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction (JCRR), The League of Nations, National Christian Council of China, and was the director of the Kiangsi Rural Welfare Service. Chang was very active in the rural reconstruction of his native country; however, at the advent of the Communist takeover in 1949, he was forced to flee the country and return to the United States.
Chang arrived in Berea in 1951 to teach in the Sociology Department and serve as an assistant to President Hutchins in the receiving of foreign visitors to the college. During the years 1952-1970 Berea, along with other Colleges and universities across the U.S., Chang participated in programs designed to inform visitors, primarily of the Third World, about projects relating to rural reconstruction. Also included in the program were opportunities for the visitors to observe the college's work-study program and their efforts in aiding education in Appalachia. Dr. Chang and his wife, Louise, were responsible for making all local arrangements and often acted as official hosts to the visitors during their stay at Berea.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Photographs, correspondence, reports, published papers, teaching materials, clippings, personal notes, visitor logs, notes on and drafts of "When East Met West," and other materials documenting the life and work of Dr. Fu Liang Chang, especially during his time at Berea College.
Collection Historical Note
Fu-Liang Chang
Biographical Note
Chang Fu-liang
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog
Access Restrictions:
Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.
Use Restrictions:
Federal copyright regulations apply to all works within the collection. All works must be cited.
Related Materials:
RG 3.05: Francis S. Hutchins Papers
Preferred Citation:
[Object/Folder/Box], RG 09/9.06: Fu Liang Chang Papers, Berea College Special Collections & Archives, Berea, KY.
Processing Information:
Finding aid updated 2014 and 2016. Materials added and finding aid updated May 2019.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Biographical Data],
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Series 2: Correspondence],
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Series 3: Foreign Visitors],
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Series 4: Subject Reports and Files],
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- Series 1: Biographical Data
- This series contains information concerning the personal history of Dr. Chang. Materials outline his vocational appointments and positions, his education, foreign travel, published articles and books. It also contains newspaper clippings and magazine articles that document his life's work. Personal photographs of Chang and his family complete the series.
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Biographical Data
- Folder 2: Personal Photographs
- Series 2: Correspondence
- This correspondence (1951 to 1970) refers mostly to Chang's involvement in the foreign visitors program. The correspondence usually consists of information concerning the visitors or personal correspondence with the visitors themselves after their stay at Berea. There is also some personal correspondence with family members as well as general business and miscellaneous undated/unsigned letters. The series is arranged in chronological order.
- Box 1
- Folder 3: Correspondence, 1951 - 1959
- Folder 4: Correspondence, 1960 - 1964
- Folder 5: Correspondence, 1965 - 1970
- Folder 6: Miscellaneous Correspondence (unsigned/undated)
- Series 3: Foreign Visitors
- The first part of this series contains guest books used to record the names and addresses of visitors. There also exists a fairly complete index of visitor names arranged in alphabetical order according to country, various notes made by Chang regarding visitors, and business cards of some visitors. Also included are papers concerning biographical data of foreign visitors as well as schedules for their stay in the U.S. The series is completed by reports containing a summary of each foreign visitor's stay at Berea. The reports span the years 1958 to 1970 and are arranged in alphabetical order according to the visitor's last name. The series also contains black and white photographs of the visitors taken by Chang, arranged in chronological order.
- Box 1
- Folder 7: Foreign Visitors Guest Book
- Folder 8: Index Cards of Foreign Visitors
- Folder 9: Notes on Visitors/Business Cards
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Foreign Visitors 1954-55
- Folder 2: Foreign Visitors 1956
- Folder 3: Foreign Visitors 1957-59
- Folder 4: Foreign Visitors 1960
- Folder 5: Foreign Visitors 1961-63
- Folder 6: Foreign Visitors 1964
- Folder 7: Foreign Visitors 1965-66
- Folder 8: Foreign Visitors 1967
- Folder 9: Foreign Visitors 1968
- Folder 10: Foreign Visitors 1969-70
- Folder 11: Miscellaneous
- Folder 12: Programs and Itinerary of Foreign Visitors
- Folder 13: Expenses of Foreign Visitors
- Folder 14: Foreign Visitors to College, Clippings
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Reports of Foreign Visitors
- 1958-65
- Folder 2: Reports of Foreign Visitors
- 1966-70
- Folder 3: Photographs of Foreign Visitors
- Series 4: Subject Reports and Files
- This series contains information concerning Chang's work in rural reconstruction in the U.S. and abroad. It contains reports, published papers and materials used in his college classes on this subject. It also contains data on two organizations Chang was involved in: Agricultural Missions and The China International Foundation. In addition there are materials and clippings on subjects such as, population, land reform, foreign aid, mass education and general information of Third World foreign affairs. Also included is information on Chang's trip back to the Far East in the 1960's. Miscellaneous papers and notes complete the series and the collection.
- Box 3
- Folder 4: Reports and Published Papers
- Folder 5: Reports and Published Papers
- Folder 6: Reports and Lectures
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Agricultural Missions Seminar - Berea College
- Folder 2: China International Foundation
- Folder 3: Population
- Folder 4: Population, Clippings
- Folder 5: Foreign Aid
- Folder 6: Mass Education
- Folder 7: Land Reform
- Folder 8: Foreign Affairs, Third World
- Folder 9: Trip to Far East
- Folder 9B: "China Revisited", Jan 21, 1966
- Address to the Berea Chapter of the American Association of University Women, Berea
- Folder 10: Miscellaneous Papers
- Folder 11: Miscellaneous Notes
- Folder 12: "When East Met West", Summer, Fall 1969
- Notes in two Steno notebooks
- Folder 13: "When East Met West", 1970-1971
- Notes and correspondence
- Box 5
- Folder 1: "When East Met West", Fall 1970
- Draft
- Folder 2: "When East Met West", June 1971
- Draft; typed and bound
- Folder 3: "When East Met West"
- Galley proofs with notes
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