LTCO 281 - Sinophone Literature and Film: Archival Materials

provided through Online Archive of California.
materials owned by UC Berkeley::Bancroft Library

Collection of artifacts excavated in 1992 from a Chinese laundry, Santa Barbara, dating from about 1885 to 1905 (139 items)
Collection of old Chinatown artifacts excavated in 1989-1991 from Union Station area, Los Angeles, dating from 1880 to 1933 (1001 items)

The over-70,000 periodicals, posters, photographs, and ephemera contained in the collection document the development of the film and entertainment industry of greater China from its inception in the early decades of the twentieth century to the 1990s, while offering a fresh perspective on the history of Chinese popular culture, media, society and social life.

The collection consists of six boxes of materials in English and Chinese. While the collection includes some of her early Shanghai publications, the majority of the materials relate to her life and ongoing works after she immigrated to the United States in 1955.