Old China Hands Newsletter
In 1945 and 1946, as a young Marine Civil Affairs officer, Harold Giedt, who had been born and raised in Shanghai, found himself in Tientsin with some spare time on his hands. Conversant in Chinese and a dedicated amateur photographer, he enjoyed roaming the streets with his camera and chatting with the people. The resulting photographs then lay, often in negative form, unremembered until 2007, when they at last saw the light of day in an exhibtion of the Old China Hands Archives.
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The Old China Hands Archives recently welcomed Dr. Roy E. Xavier, Director of the Portuguese and Macanese Studies Project and visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and the Bancroft Library, to carry on research on our collections. Dr. Xavier very kindly posted his impressions on his website.
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With its first-ever traveling exhibition, the Old China Hands Archives participated on a major scale in the Old China Hands Reunion at the Macanese Cultural Center in Fremont, California on November 6, 2011.
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Alas, all good things must come to an end, and the Archives bids a fond and reluctant farewell to Archival Assistant Christine Mettler, who graduated with a B.A. degree in Geography. Christine made a valuable contribution to the archives' processing effort through her careful work. All of her colleagues and friends in the archives and the Oviatt Library wish her future happiness and success.
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