Nicholas C. Bodman papers, 1945-ca. 1980.

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Nicholas C. Bodman papers, 1945-ca. 1980.

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Papers include personal and autobiographical material relating to the U.S. Navy and Naval Reserve, 1945-1963 (photocopies); Yale University, 1945-1950 (photocopies); early correspondence from fellow linguists, 1948; account of a trip to Malaya,and the establishment of the Government Officers Chinese Language School there, 1951-1952; correspondence about his book Spoken Amoy Hokkien, 1954-1956; founding of the Chinese language and area training center in Taichung, Taiwan, 1955-1957; other Foreign Service Institute correspondence through 1961; correspondence about a trip to India, 1961-1962; correspondence about teaching at School Of Area Studies, 1966-1967; correspondence about trips to Nepal and Hong Kong, 1968-1969, and China 1980 and 1983; information about Sino-Tibetan conferences, 1985-1986; letters to family (photocopies); obituaries and condolence notes; student papers, 1982; photograph album; and miscellaneous writings. Also alphabetical correspondence file of letters from colleagues, students, publishers, and friends.

7 cubic ft.

Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Foreign Service Institute (U.S.). Dept. of Far Eastern Languages.

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Bodman, Nicholas Cleaveland, 1913-1997

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Bodman, Nicholas Cleveland, 1913-

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Professor of Chinese Linguistics at Cornell University from 1962-1979. Nicholas C. Bodman received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Yale University. He entered the Navy during World War II, and was transferred to Pearl Harbor in 1942, where he was part of the group that deciphered the Japanese naval code. From 1950 to 1961, he worked as a scientific linguist with the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. He came to Cornell in 1962 as an expert in the hist...

Cornell University

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