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Comments on her study of oriental art and Chinese and Japanese; her trip to Japan, Indochina and China (1939-40), and internment by the Japanese during World War II in a camp in the Shantung province; her career as founding head of the East Asiatic Library (University of California, Berkeley) and as scholar and teacher in the field of Chinese literature. Copies of photographs and of documentary materials inserted and appended.

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Title
Elizabeth Huff, Teacher and founding curator of the East Asiatic Library: From Urbana to Berkeley by way of Peking; tape recorded interview conducted by Rosemary Levenson in 1976
Creator
interviewee., Huff, Elizabeth, 1912-
Jamieson, John Charles.
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
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Full Collection Name
California Audiovisual Preservation Project
Other Identifiers
cabeuroh_000156
Subject (Corporate)
University of California, Berkeley. East Asiatic Library.
Subject (Topic)
World War, 1939-1945 China.
Women educators California -- Berkeley.
Women librarians California -- Berkeley.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Chine.
Éducatrices Californie -- Berkeley.
Femmes bibliothécaires Californie -- Berkeley.
Geographic Coverage
China Description and travel.
Japan Description and travel.
Chine Descriptions et voyages.
Japon Descriptions et voyages.
United States -- California -- Berkeley.
Type
Audio
Format
Oral histories.
Archive
The Library
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