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The spirit of chinese culture = [Zhongguo wenhua]

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    Handbook: Chinese Culture Foundationa and Chinese Hospital Medical Staff

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    Series 1: Business and legal files. The first series consists of business and legal files of William Jack Chow. The files are arranged in alphabetical order by subject. These files concern both Chow's career as a lawyer and a businessman. The folders may contain a combination of business records, case files, correspondence, financial records, legal documents, memoranda, and securities. Chow also frequently traveled to Hong Kong for work. Those files are also found in this series and they span from the 1950s through 1970s. A subject of interest includes the Supreme Court of the United States landmark decision to uphold affirmative action in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. At the end of this series are Chow's books primarily related to business and law. Note: Chow's appointment books and business cards are found in Series 2.

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    Lectures on Chinese culture syllabus and notes

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    This collection consists of personal and professional papers of Kenneth Y. Fung. These papers include personal and business correspondence (including letters by immigration lawyer Y. C. Hong and Chinese rights activist, educator, and newspaper editor Walter U. Lum), documents, notes, immigration case files, notebooks, sympathy cards, newspaper clippings, copies of U.S. Senate bills, photographs and negatives, books, objects, and art, from 1890 to 2004 and the bulk covering 1915 to Fung's death in 1952. Also included are materials related to the Chinese American Citizens Alliance from 1923 to 1943. The majority of the collection deals with Fung's immigration work as a lawyer and Chinese Americans' rights advocacy, but a lot of the collection is personal in nature and provides details about his personal life and the Fung family and their lives in San Francisco, Chinatown, and the surrounding Bay Area of California.

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    Chinese women, yesterday & to-day

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    This book deals with the transformation of ancient into modern China as seen through women's eyes, and includes biographies of outstanding women who have hlped to bring about this change and who are typical of the old and new in China.--Provided by publisher.

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    Subject files - Chinese Historical and Cultural Project

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    Bourne, Mary Stibbs - Stibbs, Christopher, unknown authors and ephemera

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    Anthony - Bourne, George Melksham

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