Thomas Edward La Fargue collection 1785-1939

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Thomas Edward La Fargue collection 1785-1939

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Photocopies and typed copies of letters and reports, pamphlets, printed articles, and miscellaneous writings, relating to early contacts between China and the United States, to Charlie Jones Soong (father of T. V. Soong, Madame Sun Yat-sen and Madame Chiang Kai-shek), and to miscellaneous aspects of Chinese history.

1 manuscript box; (0.4 linear feet)

eng,

Hoover Institution Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6656601

Hoover Institution Archives

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Soong, Charlie Jones.

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Sung family.

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La Fargue, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1900-

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Thomas La Fargue (b. 1900) was a history professor at the State College of Washington during the period in which he researched and wrote China's First Hundred (1942). The book is a study of one hundred Chinese boys who studied in the United States from 1872-1881 as part of the Chinese Educational Mission to America. La Fargue earned a B.A. and M.A. from the University of California and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. From the guide to the Thomas La Fargue Papers, 1873-1946, (Washin...