Scope and Contents
The William Hung archive contains mixed items dating from 1915 to 1996. The majority of the items is correspondence including William Hung’s personal letters with his children and friends in Chinese and in English. They include official letters relating to Mr. Hung’s affairs during his tenure as Dean at Yenching University as well as correspondence with the Harvard-Yenching Institute. The collection also contains more than 144 cassette tapes of Mrs. Susan Chan Egan’s interviews with Mr. Hung that she used as the basis for his biography, A Latterday Confucion: Reminiscences of William Hung (1893-1980), published in 1987. In addition, the collection contains photographs of Mr. Hung including his 1915 graduating class at the Anglo-Chinese College in Fuzhou, China. Books and book reviews by or about Mr. Hung and newspaper clippings relating to Mr. Hung are included in this collection as well.
Dates
- Creation: 1915-1996
Language of Materials
English, Chinese
Extent
10 boxesGeneral note
Mr. William Hung was born on Oct. 27, 1893 in Fuzhou, China. In 1915, he went to Ohio Wesleyan in Delaware, Ohio to study and completed his master’s degree in history at Columbia University in 1919. In 1923, he returned to China as a professor of history at Yenching University in Beijing, and then, as Dean of the College of Art and Sciences in Yenching. In 1946 he came back to the US, taught at Harvard University and served with Harvard-Yenching Institute under whose auspices he edited the renowned Harvard-Yenching Institute Sinological Index Series. Mr. Hung died in 1980.
Hollis Number
990125436100203941
- Title
- Papers of William Hung (1893-1980) 1915-1996: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Harvard Yenching Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hyl00027
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard Library, Harvard University Repository
2 Divinity Ave.
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-3327
hylpub@fas.harvard.edu