The Oral History Program at Claremont Graduate School, Claremont California launched a project to assess the influence of the China missionary movement, 1900-1950. Christian workers of various denominations gave their recollections of conditions and experiences in China; they include educators, medical administrators, teachers, ministers, authors and translators. The accounts deal with local conditions in urban and rural China and interaction between American residents and Chinese communities. The project, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation of New York, provided that copies of the transcripts be deposited in a number of universities having extensive resources in Chinese history, of which Columbia is one.