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Inventory of the Helen Praeger Young Interviews
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Archives Staff.
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Inventory of the Helen Praeger
Young Interviews
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Title: Helen Praeger Young interviews
Date (inclusive): 1985-2002
Date (bulk): 1985-1997
Collection Number: 2008C52
Creator: Young, Helen Praeger, 1932- , interviewer.
Collection Size: 10 manuscript boxes, 4 cassette boxes (5.5 linear feet)
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Archives
Language of Material: In English and Chinese.
Abstract: Sound recordings and translations of transcripts of interviews of women veterans of the Chinese Long March of
1934-1935. Used as research material for the book by Helen Praeger Young, Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers
on the Long March (Urbana, 2001).
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Access
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view
videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then
advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is
immediately accessible.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Helen Praeger Young interviews, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2008.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the
collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection mainly contains sound recordings and translations of transcripts of interviews of women veterans of the
Chinese Long March of 1934-1935 used as research material for the book by Helen Praeger Young, Choosing Revolution:
Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March (Urbana, 2001). Additionally, the collection contains research material in both
English and Chinese, such as biographical material about the women interviewed, the Long March, maps of China,
caligraphy samples, and other printed material and drafts of various editions of the book with comments from editors and
peers at the "Stanford Biographers Seminar."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
China--History--Long March, 1934-1935.
Communism--China.
Phonotapes.
Women--China.
Sound recordings of interviews, 1986-1988
Scope and Contents note
On compact sound cassettes. Titles taken directly from labels.
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Sound recordings of interviews, 1986-1988
Box 11
Chen Zongying sound recordings from June 1987, 20-27 June 1987
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Four compact sound cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008574
Scope and Contents note
Parts 1-4: 20 June 1987 Parts 4-8: 27 June 1987
Box 11
Deng Liujin, 1st Interview,
Physical Description: 2 compact sound cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008434
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 1
Box 11
Deng Liujin, 2nd Interview, 1 July 1986
Physical Description: Three compact sound cassettes. The third cassette also contains
part of the third interview with Deng Liujin
Access
The third cassette contains part of the third interview. Use copy reference number:
2008c52_a_0008439
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 1
Box 11
Deng Liujin, third interview,
Physical Description: Two compact sound cassettes. Part of the third interview is
contained on the last cassette of the second interview
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008438
Scope and Contents note
Part of the third interview is contained on the last cassette of the second interview
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 1
Box 11
12-11-86 interview, 11 December 1986
Physical Description: Two compact sound cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008422
Box 11
Guo Chen interview, 10 July 1986
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008573
Box 11
He Manqiu interview, 15 March 1987
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Three compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview. The first is two cassettes long. The second is three cassettes long.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008572
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Sound recordings of interviews, 1986-1988
Box 11
Jian Xian Jo interview, 3 September 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Three compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview, both 3 cassettes long each.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008456
Box 11
Jian Xianren interview, 5 December 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Three compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview, 3 cassettes each.
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 1.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008578
Jian Xianren interview, 10-17 December 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Two compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview, two cassettes each.
Scope and Contents note
Parts 1-3: 10 December 1988 Part 4: 17 December 1988
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008579
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 1.
Box 11, Box 12
Jian Xianren interview, 14 December 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Two compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview, two cassettes each.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008582
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 1.
Box 12
Interviews with old soldiers and others, 15 and 17 June 1997
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008586
Box 12
Kang Keqing interview, 14 January 1987
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Two compact sound cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008441
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Sound recordings of interviews, 1986-1988
Box 12
Li Gui Ying and Wei Xiu Ying interviews, 9-11 February 1989
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Three compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview, one 3 cassettes long and the other 1 cassette long.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008587
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 1.
Box 12
Li Jianzhen and Xie Xiaomei interviews, 2 February 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Two compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview, two cassettes each.
Access
Use copy reference numbers: 2008c52_a_0008428
Box 12
Li Kaifen interview, part 1, 28/10, Beijing, undated
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008461
Box 12
Li Kaifen interview, part 2, 28/10, Beijing, undated
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008462
Box 12
Li Yun Ja interview, 14 June 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Two compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview. One is one cassette long and the other is two cassettes long.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008696
Box 12
Lin Yueqin interview, 26 Jan 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Three compact sound cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008698
Box 12
Liu Jian interview, 29 January 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette. There are two copies of this
interview, each one cassette long.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008715
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 1.
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Sound recordings of interviews, 1986-1988
Box 12
Liu Jian interview, 30 January 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Four compact sound cassettes
Access
Use copy reference numbers: 2008c52_a_0008440, 2008c52_a_0008723, and
2008c52_a_0008724
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 1.
Box 12
Liu Jian interview, 29-30 January 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008728
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 1.
Box 12
Liu Ying interview, 27 January 1988
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette. There are two copies of this
interview, each one cassette long.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008432
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 1.
Box 12
Music recordings and Liu Ying sound recording, 27 January 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008727
Scope and Contents note
Part 1 is two music pieces.
1. A Taste of Honey 2. Le Petite Melodie
Part 2 is a woman speaking in Chinese.
Box 13, Box 12
Ma Yixiang interview, 1 February 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: 5 compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of the
interview, one five cassettes long and the other four cassettes long.
Access
Use copy reference numbers: 2008c52_a_0008397 and 2008c52_a_0008452
Scope and Contents note
The copy 2008c52_a_0008397 copy includes an interview with Li Jianzhen from 2
February 1988
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
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Sound recordings of interviews, 1986-1988
Box 13
Ma Yi Xiang 2 Chao Youp Hua sound recording, undated
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008455. Transcript in English available in Box
2.
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
Box 13
Quan Wei Hua interview, 10 July 1987
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Three compact sound cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008791
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
Box 13
Qian Xijun interview, 23 August 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Three compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview, each three cassettes long.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008801
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
Box 13
Qian Xijun interview, 27 August 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Three compact sound cassettes
Access
Use copy number: 2008c52_a_0008816
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
Box 13
Wang Ding Guo interview, 6-7 June 1986
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Three compact sound cassettes
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008830
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Sound recordings of interviews, 1986-1988
Box 13
Wang Quanyuan and Wei Xiu Ying interviews, 12-13 February 1989
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: 7 compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of these
interviews, each seven cassettes long.
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008840
Scope and Contents note
Wang Quanyuan, Tai Hu; Wei Xiu Ying interviews, Nanchang
The interview changes from Wang Quanyuan to Wei Xiu ying at the beginning of part 11
in the Panasonic version and in part 11 in the Sony version.
The first tape of both copies is missing, although this beginning of the interviews might
be at the end of item 2008c52_a_0008955.
Box 13
Wei Xiu Ying interview, 11 February 1989
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Two compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview, each two cassettes long.
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008955
Scope and Contents note
This recording series may also include the first parts of the Wang Quanyan interview from
12 February 1989.
Box 13
Xiao Ku, Lin Yue Qin, etc, interview, undated
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: Two compact sound cassettes
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008956
Box 14
Xie Fei interview, 22 October 1988
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: 6 compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview, each six cassettes long.
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
Access
Use copy number: 2008c52_a_0008957
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Sound recordings of interviews, 1986-1988
Box 14
Xie Xiao Mei interview, 2 February 1988
Physical Description: Three compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview, each three cassettes long.
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
Scope and Contents note
It appears that the beginning of this interview is on the cassettes with an interview with Li
Jianzhen (use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008428).
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008959
Box 14
Yan Jing Tang interview, undated
Physical Description: Two compact sound cassettes
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008967
Box 14
Zhang Gue Lin interview, 16 February 1989
Physical Description: Three compact sound cassettes. There are two copies of this
interview. The first copy is two cassettes long. The second and third copies are three
cassettes each and the third appears to be a direct copy of the second.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008972
Box 14
Xiao Lin's father-in-law interview, 8 June 1997
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008982
Box 14
Zhang Wen interview, 17 Jul 1987
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008983
Box 14
Zhang Wen interview, undated
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Note
Transcript in English available in Box 2.
Access
Use copy number: 2008c52_a_0008985
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Sound recordings of interviews, 1986-1988
Box 14
Hunan sound recordings, 14-15 June 1997
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Scope and Contents note
Label reads: [illegible], Lu Jiaping 6/14/1997, 97 year old, side A, interview with 97 year
old woman who cared for He Jie Chang after LM; Tao Wo 6/14/1997, 74 year old, side B;
6/15, Jiang Jia Jie - 2, Red Army Vets, hu and gang,
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008989
Box 14
Sound recordings from 23-25 June 1997,
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Scope and Contents note
Label reads: 6.23.97/Keen [ming?], 4th Front Army 1/4, Wang Chao 6.25.97/Li Jiang, Li
Jian Bowoguan, director - Li Xi
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008992
Box 14
Unidentified sound recording from 15 June 1997,
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0008996
Box 14
Educational sound recordings read by Helen Praeger Young, undated
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Scope and Contents note
Part 1 is "Shrewd Todie and Lyzer the Miser" by Isaac Singer
Part 2 is "The Kingdom of Kochen"
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0009000
Box 14
Unidentified interview sound recording, undated
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Access
Use copy number: 2008c52_a_0009003
Box 14
Unidentified sound recording, undated
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Access
use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0009007
Box 14
Unidentified sound recording, undated
Language of Material: Chinese
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Scope and Contents note
The sound quality is terrible on the accessioned cassette.
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0009006
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Sound recordings of interviews, 1986-1988
Box 14
Unidentified sound recording, undated
Physical Description: One compact sound cassette
Access
Use copy reference number: 2008c52_a_0009010
Interview files and transcripts, 1985-1995
Language of Material: Chinese
Scope and Contents note
Contains transcripts of interviews, biographical notes on subjects, and drafts of chapters
incorporating interviews with maps and scanned photos included.
Box/Folder: 1 : 1
Chen Zongying, 1986-1995
Biographical/Historical note
Chen Zongying joins the Long March in August 1934 in the Sixth Army Group.
Box/Folder: 1 : 2
Deng Liujin, 1986
Biographical/Historical note
Deng Liujin was a First Front Army veteran.
Box/Folder: 1 : 3
He Manqiu, 1987
Biographical/Historical note
He Manqiu was a Fourth Front Army veteran.
Box/Folder: 1 : 4
Box/Folder: 1 : 5
Jian Xianfo (Mei Mei), 1988-1995
Jian Xianren (Jui Jui), 1989-1995
Biographical/Historical note
Jian Xianren was a Second Front Army veteran.
Box/Folder: 1 : 6
Kang Keqing, 1987
Biographical/Historical note
Kang Keqing was the wife of the commander-in-chief of the army, Marshal Zhu De.
Keqing was transferred from the First Front Army to the Fourth Front Army in June 1935.
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Li Guiying, 1989
Li Jianzhen, 1988-1989
Li Yanfa, 1988-1989
Liao Siguang, 1988
Lin Yueqin, 1985-1988
Biographical/Historical note
Lin Yueqin was a Fourth Front Army veteran, joined the Long March in 1932.
Box/Folder: 1 :
12-13
Liu Jian, 1988-1994
Box/Folder: 2 : 1
Box/Folder: 2 : 2-4
Liu Ying, 1988
Ma Yixiang, 1994
Biographical/Historical note
Ma Yixiang was a Second Front Army veteran; she joined the army at age 11.
Box/Folder: 2 : 5
Box/Folder: 2 : 6
Qian Xijun, 1989
Quan Weihua, 1987-1989
Biographical/Historical note
Quan Weihua was a Fourth Front Army veteran.
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Interview files and transcripts, 1985-1995
Box/Folder: 2 : 7-8
Wang Ding Guo, 1986-1987
Biographical/Historical note
Wang Dingguo was a Fourth Front Army veteran.
Box/Folder: 2 : 9
Wang Quanyuan, 1989
Biographical/Historical note
Wang Quanyuan was transferred from the First Front Army to the Fourth Front Army in
June 1935. In 1936, Quanyuan commanded a regiment of women.
Box/Folder: 2 : 10
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11-12
Wei Xiuying, 1989
Xie Fei, 1988-1989
Box/Folder: 2 : 13
Box/Folder: 2 : 14
Xie Xiaomei, 1988
Zhang Wen, 1986-1987
Biographical/Historical note
Zhang Wen was a Fourth Front Army veteran.
Box/Folder: 2 : 15
Box/Folder: 2 : 16
Box/Folder: 2 : 17
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Zhang Yuan Yuan, 1985
Yan Jingtang, 1985
Men's interviews and mixed materials regarding Chinese Communist Forces,
1944-1985
Research material and drafts
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Maps and printed material on China and the Long March, undated
Notes and drafts, "He Manqiu's Story," 1993-1994
Drafts, "Jian Xianren," 1994
Drafts, "Women's Voices on the Long March" and "Women Soldiers of the Long
March," 1992-1994
Box/Folder: 3 : 7
Box/Folder: 3 :
8-10
Drafts, notes, and printed material, 1995
Drafts with notes from "Biographers Seminar," 1994-1995
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Research material, and drafts with notes from "Biographers Seminar," 1994
Drafts with notes, 1996-1997
Drafts and working outlines, 1992-1998
"The Feminist Press" drafts and materials, 1996
Drafts, correspondence, and printed material, 1985-1993
United Nations Association research materials, undated
Maps of China, undated
Preliminary list of maps by chapter, 2000
Wang Yougin's calligraphy for book, undated
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Maps of China, undated
Book photographs by chapter, undated
Printed material, eye witness accounts, undated
Maps of China, undated
Articles on women and oral history, 1995-1997
Biographical sketches, lists, 1986-2002
Huaxia Funu Mingren Cidian, 1988
Long March Images, scanned pictures and photographs, undated
Box/Folder: 5 :
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Chinese source material on the Long March, Chinese women, undated
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Various interview notes, circa 1986-1989
Drafts with Susan Rigdon/Cropp's comments, undated
6:1
6 : 2-3
6:4
Drafts with notes, 1992-1994
Stanford "Biographers Seminar" presentation and comments, 1994
Introduction draft before revisions, 1999
Box/Folder: 6 : 5
Thesis: "Women and the Chinese Communist Party," 1978
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Research material and drafts
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"The Private Life of Chairman Mao," undated
Articles and publications, 1992-1997
Articles, 1990s
"Wang Yizhi: A Woman in Revolution," Gilmartin and Stranahan, 1990
Papers and articles on women's issues, women in politics, 1986-1997
Research trip photographs, itinerary, maps, 1997
"Choosing Revolution," proof and notes, 2001
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Manuscript preparation guidelines, 1999
Drafts with Susan Rigdon comments, 1999
Architectural sketches and articles, 1967
Drafts, notes, research materials, 1995-1997
Early correspondence and proposal, 1985-1986
Copies of face sketches, undated
Chinese Map, undated
University of Illinois Urbana Press "Choosing Revolution" proposal and draft, 1997
Biographical notes, chapter notes, 1997
Articles on Chinese communist politics, 1994
Publications and drafts, on women and war, 1995
"Women's Voices on the Long March" notes and chapter drafts, 1994
"Will to Survive," "Choosing Revolution" drafts and proposals, 1995-1996
"Women on the Long March," "Women's Voices" chapter drafts, 1993
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"Women on the Long March" chapters, 1993
"Long March" drafts for writing workshop, 1993
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Printed material on Chinese communist party, politics,
Zheng Peijun's research, undated
Long March, first front notes,
Writings, drafts regarding the organization of the Long March, 1990-1992
Dijkstra/Dykstra Literary Agency material and correspondence, 1991
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"The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party," 1972
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