Harrison Forman Diary, China, July 1938
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- Created Date
- 1938-07
- Description
On a trip to China in 1938, Harrison Forman, photographer and explorer, recounts his experience with the Japanese occupation of China during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Forman begins his journey in eastern China from the Hongkou District in Shanghai, then flies to Nanking (Nanjing), on to Suchow (Xuzhou), and finally arrives in Kaifeng, north-central China. In Suchow, Forman writes about the Japanese domination over the Chinese despite the one Japanese defeat in the Battle of Tai'erzhuang in southern Shandong. Forman comments on the leader of the National Government, Chiang Kai-shek’s (1928-1949) cautionary statement to not celebrate the achievement prematurely. He observed the Catholic and Protestant missionaries in China who protected tens of thousands of refugees during the heaviest Japanese bombardments. Forman then photographs missions as he’s flying over to Kaifeng in the northern Henan province. He reports of the Battle of Lanfeng, led by General Kenji Doihara, of
The diaries are part of the Harrison Forman Papers 1931-1974 housed at the Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. UWM Libraries received the dairies on a loan from the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Oregon Libraries and digitized them to accompany the digital collection of Forman's photographs. The diaries were digitized to provide research materials for the Forman’s negatives scanned as part of the NEH grant project "Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images."
- Creator
Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- Harrison Forman Papers, 1931-1974
- Subjects
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
Xuzhou (China)--Diaries
Kaifeng (China)--Diaries
China--History--1937-1945
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Campaigns
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Destruction and pillage
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Civilian relief - Type
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- Format
- Manuscripts
- Language
- English
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- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. Harrison Forman Diary, China, July 1938. 1938-07. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/forman/id/7. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978, (1938-07) Harrison Forman Diary, China, July 1938. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/forman/id/7
- MLA citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/forman/id/7>.