American Bureau for Medical Aid to China Records, 1937-2005
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Creator:
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American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. |
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Phys. Desc:
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331 Linear Feet (271 boxes; 2 tube boxes) |
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Call Number:
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Ms Coll\ABMAC |
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Location:
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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Biographical Note
The American Bureau for Medical Aid to China (ABMAC) was founded in 1937 to give aid to Chinese medical and public health
services by working through existing Chinese medical agencies. Between 1937 and 1945 more than ten million dollars in aid
was given to China. After World War II, ABMAC concentrated on aiding six national medical colleges by administering a fellowship
program for faculty members of these colleges to spend a year of study in the United States, by sending American medical faculty
members to the six colleges as visiting professors, and by providing technical assistance in the form of books for medical
libraries, text books for the classroom, equipment for laboratories and other educational materials. In 1949 when the Peoples
Republic of China was established, ABMAC shifted its aid to Taiwan.
Scope and Contents
Papers of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, committee files,
membership records, financial records, fund raising records, motion pictures, audio tapes, phonograph records, photographs,
posters, publications of ABMAC and other printed materials. Also included are the files of related Chinese relief organizations:
Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, 1954-1969; American Emergency Relief, 1941-1946; United Services to China, 1941-1977. Of
particular interest are approximately 6,000 photographs of Chinese medical colleges, hospitals, laboratories and personnel
and 45 phonograph records including speeches by such ABMAC supporters as Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, Pearl S. Buck, Wendell Willkie,
Fiorello LaGuardia and a number of movie stars
