Title:
Teacher and founding curator of the East Asiatic Library: From Urbana to Berkeley by way of Peking : oral history transcript:
and related material, 1976-1977
Creator/Contributor:
Huff, Elizabeth, 1912-, creator, interviewee.
Creator/Contributor:
Jamieson, John Charles.
Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.
Abstract:
Comments on her study of oriental art and Chinese and Japanese; her trip to Japan, Indochina and China (1939-40), and internment
by the Japanese during World War II in a camp in the Shantung province; her career as founding head of the East Asiatic Library
(University of California, Berkeley) and as scholar and teacher in the field of Chinese literature. Copies of photographs
and of documentary materials inserted and appended.
Date:
1976 (issued)
Subject:
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World War, 1939-1945 -- China
Women educators -- California -- Berkeley
Women librarians -- California -- Berkeley
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Chine
Éducatrices -- Californie -- Berkeley
Femmes bibliothécaires -- Californie -- Berkeley
Travel
Women educators
Women librarians
China -- Description and travel
Japan -- Description and travel
Chine -- Descriptions et voyages
Japon -- Descriptions et voyages
California -- Berkeley
China
Japan
University of California, Berkeley. -- East Asiatic Library.
University of California, Berkeley. -- East Asiatic Library
United States -- California -- Berkeley
Note:
Elizabeth Huff ; tape recorded interview conducted by Rosemary Levenson in 1976. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1977 :
Introduction by John C. Jamieson.
Phonotapes also available.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Also available online.
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests
for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Type:
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
[25], 278 leaves ; 28 cm + related material
Language:
English
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests
for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.