Votaw, Maurice E. (1899-1981), Papers, 1909-1978 (C3672)

55 folders

INTRODUCTION

The papers of a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism primarily pertain to his years as professor of journalism at St. John's University, Shanghai, China, and adviser to the Nationalist Chinese Ministry of Information. Included are transcripts of oral interviews, correspondence, literary productions, minutes, printed materials, maps, lists, photographs, and books. Contained is information on Votaw's life; writers, missionaries, political and military leaders, and events in China (1922-1977); U.S. China policy; Chinese and American journalism and newspapers; Shanghai Short Story Club; and St. John's University and University of Missouri School of Journalism.

DONOR INFORMATION

The Votaw Papers were donated to the University of Missouri by Maurice E. Votaw on 3 December 1976 (Accession No. 4030). Additions were made to the papers periodically from 8 December 1976 to 9 April 1980 (Accession Nos. 4031, 4052, 4053, 4056, 4060, 4277).

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Maurice Eldred Votaw was born in Eureka, Missouri, in 1899 and earned a BJ in 1918 and an MA in 1921 from the University of Missouri. He taught journalism at St. John's University, Shanghai, China, 1922-1939 and 1947-1949; served as adviser to the Nationalist Chinese Ministry of Information, 1939-1949; and taught at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, 1950-1970. While in China he served as secretary of the American Advisory Committee and American Red Cross, 1940-1948, and as treasurer of the Middle School Relief Committee and Episcopal Charity Fund, 1941-1948. He was a Member of the Shanghai Short Story Club.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Votaw Papers are arranged by type of material and then chronologically there under. More complete descriptions of the papers are in the folder list that follows.

FOLDER LIST

f. 1-8Transcripts of Oral Interviews. Votaw's comments on his life; writers, missionaries, politicians, and military leaders in China (1922-1977); U.S. China policy, Sino-Japanese War; Kuomintang-Communist struggle; Chinese, American journalism and newspapers; Nationalist Chinese policies toward Taiwanese; Shanghai Short Story Club; St. John's University, Shanghai; and University of Missouri School of Journalism, 1915-1977. Interviews were done by Tom Lobenstein, a Western Historical Manuscript Collection staff member.
f. 9-10aCorrespondence, n.d.-1975. Votaw's articles, Nationalist Chinese policies, fund raising for Chinese hospitals, Japanese concentration camps, Baltimore Sun, and medical supplies for Chinese wounded (1940s).
f. 11-24Literary Productions, 1939-1946. Research notes, manuscripts, reminiscences, reports, unpublished interviews with Chinese Communist leaders, and speeches involving Sin-Japanese war; Kuomintang-Communist struggle; Chinese Communist border regions, propaganda, hospitals, cooperatives, newspapers, philosophical principles and armies; Nationalists' plans for national reconstruction and revision of 1936 Draft Constitution; famine in Kwangtung Province; data on Communist and Nationalist leaders; Japanese concentration camps and propaganda; Wendell Willkie in China, and British press.
f. 25-36Miscellaneous
f. 25-32Minutes (arranged chronologically within organization): Church World Service, China and Asia Relief, American Advisory Committee (1943-1946); St. John's University Council, Shanghai (1948); Committee on Middle School Relief (1946).
f. 33-34Personnel Directory of the Government of China, 1946.
f. 35Clippings of articles by Votaw (1944), Chinese Communist song books (1944), maps of Shansi Province and north China showing Japanese, Nationalist, and Communist troop positions (ca. 1943-1944).
f. 36Votaw's Chinese press passes and membership cards (contain photographs of Votaw) and newspapers: St. John's Dial, 1948, and the North-China Herald, 1850.
f. 37-41Photographs. Photographs of China; Singapore; ship Parthos; dedication of Chinese lions at University of Missouri; leaders of the School of Journalism there (1931), faculty of St. John's University, Shang-hai; Japanese soldiers; Nehru; Patrick Hurley; noted Chinese Communists, Nationalists, and journalists in China.
f. 42-55Published Materials
f. 42Ethelbert F. Allen, Campbell Wells and Walter Williams, From Missouri to the Isle of Mull: Impressions of a Little Journey by Three Missourians (1909).
f. 43The China Who's Who, 1924 (Foreign): A Biographical Dictionary (1924), Compiled and published by Carroll Lunt.
f. 44Short Stories written in Shanghai by Members of the Short Story Club (1924).
f. 45"Dr. Sun Yat-sen: His Life and Achievements" (1925).
f. 46Symposium on Japan's Undeclared War in Shanghai (1932).
f. 47"Between Tides" and Other Stories (1934) by members of Shanghai Short Story Club.
f. 48Who's Who in China: Biographies of Chinese Leaders (1936).
f. 49Far Eastern Mirror (5 May 1938).
f. 50"'New Order in East Asia': Conditions in Nine Chinese Cities after from Eight to Nineteen Months of Japanese Occupation" (1939)
f. 51Yeh Chien-ying, "Report on the General Military Situation of the Chinese Communist Party in the War of Resistance" (1944).
f. 52"Glimpses of Madame Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Women's War-Time Work" (1945)
f. 53James C.H. Shen, The View From Twin Oaks: A Collection of Selected Speeches, vol. 1, 1971-1974; vol. 2, 1975-1978 (1978).
f. 54"China Fights Back," n.d.
f. 55Ma Hsing-yeh, picture book of the life of Chiang Kai-shek, n.d. (completely in Chinese).

INDEX TERMS

These index terms are the subjects, people, places, etc. under which this collection is listed in all available indexes at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. If you are interested in a specific index term, please contact the reference staff.

  • Allen, Ethelbert F., et al. From Missouri to the Isle of Mull, 1909
  • American Red Cross, China, 1944
  • Anselm, John
  • Architecture, Chinese
  • Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, 1943
  • Bethune Memorial International Peace Hospital, Liu Shu-tien, China
  • Buck, Pearl S. (1892-1973)
  • Burgert, Theresa
  • Carlson, Evans Fordyce (1896-1947)
  • Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975)
  • China
  • China Fights Back
  • China, 8th Route Army
  • China, Chungking, c. 1940
  • China, New 4th Army, 1944
  • China, Peking
  • China, Yenan
  • China. Constitution, 1936
  • China--Description and travel--Views, 1920s
  • China--Description and travel--Views, 1940s
  • China--Economic Conditions, 1940s
  • China--Economic policy
  • China--Government employees, 1946
  • China--History--1912-1949
  • Chinese-American relations
  • Chou En-lai (1898-1976)
  • Chu Te (1886- )
  • Chu Te (1886- )
  • Communism--China, 1940s
  • Concentration camps, Japanese
  • Cooperative societies--China
  • Cuba, 1961
  • Egypt--Description and travel--Views, 1920s
  • Famines--China, 1942
  • Far Eastern Mirror, May 5, 1938
  • Feng Yu-hsiang
  • Gunther, John (1901-1970)
  • Hsin Hua Jih Pao
  • Hurley, Patrick J. (1883-1963)
  • International Peace Hospital, China
  • Journalism, China
  • Journalists
  • Kao Tze-li
  • Keeley, Mary Paxton (1886-1986)
  • Kung, H.H. (1881- )
  • Lemmon, Constance Harlan (1887-1972)
  • Li Yuan-hung (1864-1928)
  • Lin Teo-han
  • Lin Tzu-han
  • Ma Hsing-yeh, Picture Book of the Life of Chiang Kai-shek
  • Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976)
  • Maps, China, World War, 1939-1945
  • Martin, Frank L. (1881-1941)
  • Missionaries, Christian, China
  • Nehru, Jawaharlal (1889-1964)
  • Newspapers, China
  • Porthos (Steamship)
  • Raffles Hotel, Singapore, China, 1925
  • Service, Jack
  • Shanghai Short Story Club
  • Shen, James C.H. The View From Twin Oaks
  • Singapore, Description & travel, views, 1920s
  • Sino-Japanese conflict, 1937-1945
  • Snow, Edgar (1905-1972)
  • Soldiers, Japan
  • Songbooks
  • Soong, T.V.
  • St. John's University, Shanghai, China
  • Stilwell, Joseph W. (1883-1946)
  • Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925)
  • Taiwanese
  • The China Who's Who 1924 (Foreign), A Biographical Dictionary
  • The North China Herald, 1850
  • The St. John's Dial, 1948
  • Tong, Hollington K. (1887-1971)
  • University of Missouri, School of Journalism, 1949-1969
  • Votaw, Maurice Eldred (1899-1981)
  • Wang Shih-hui
  • Wells, Campbell
  • Williams, Walter
  • Willkie, Wendell L.
  • Women's Advisory Council, Glimpses of Madame Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Women's War-time Work, 1945
  • World War, 1939-1945--China, Chungking
  • World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and Pillage, China
  • World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda
  • Wu P'ei-fu
  • Yeh Chien-ying, Report on the General Military Situation of the Chinese Communist Party in the War of Resistance