Shansi: Oberlin and Asia -- A digital collection documenting the sharing of the ideals of learning and labor

The Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association, the Oberlin College East Asian Studies Program, and the Oberlin College Archives and Library proudly announce the availability of the online digital collection Shansi: Oberlin and Asia.

Documenting the activity of Oberlinians in Asia from the 1880s to the 1950s, this teaching and research collection contains correspondence, newsletters, maps, reports, journal entries, photographs and other materials from the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Records and personal paper collections in the Oberlin College Archives. Featured in the collection is a short clip of silent film footage of activities in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China in the 1948. Other Shansi motion picture films are available for viewing at the Oberlin College Archives.

The digital collection represents a small percentage of the total amount of materials in the Oberlin College Archives that relate to the work of missionaries and Shansi Representatives in China as well as other countries.

The collection can be accessed from the Oberlin College Archives web site or the Oberlin College Library web site. For further information please contact the Oberlin College Archives by email (archive@oberlin.edu) or by phone (440-775-8014).

The project to create this digital collection was funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Five Colleges of Ohio (Next Steps in the Next Generation Library: Integrating Digital Collections into the Liberal Arts Curriculum, 2010)