- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Liu, Binyan, 1925-2005.
- Title:
- Liu Binyan Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jq085k04s
- Dates:
- 1988-2006
- Size:
- 8 boxes
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-8
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of papers of Chinese journalist and political dissident Liu Binyan, including manuscripts, notes, drafts of speeches, reviews, correspondence, audiocassettes of interviews, and other material.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of papers of Liu, including manuscripts, notes, drafts of speeches, reviews, correspondence, audiocassettes of interviews, and other material. Included is a complete run of China Focus/China Watch (1993-1999) (a publication of the Princeton China Initiative) and most of the monthly Great Road (Princeton, N.J.).
- Arrangement
The order of materials at the time of their transfer has been retained.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Liu, Binyan, 1925-2005.
Liu Binyan was a Chinese author, journalist, and political dissident. In the spring of 1988, he came to the U.S. for teaching and writing, but was barred from returning after denouncing the Chinese government for its Beijing massacre and nationwide crackdown in June 1989. He died in East Windsor, N.J., on December 5, 2005.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Zhu Hong (widow), Liu Dahong, and Liu Xiaoyan in 2006 .
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Gregory Kohles '2013 in 2011.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Liu Binyan Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jq085k04s
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-8
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- Subject Terms:
- Authors, Exiled -- 20th century -- Manuscripts.
Dissenters -- China -- 20th century.
Exiles' writings, Chinese -- 20th century.
Political activists -- China -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Audiocassettes.
Correspondence -- 20th century
Manuscripts -- 20th century. - Places:
- China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002 -- Periodicals.
