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Dorothy Ko papers (Ms.2019.006)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

Personal, 1982-2008

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Address book
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 2 Planner
 n.d., 1982
Box 1, Folder 3 Planner
 1983
Box 1, Folder 4 Planner
 1984
Box 1, Folder 5 Planner
 1988-1989
Box 1, Folder 6 Planner
 1989-1990
Box 1, Folder 7 Planner and wall calendar
 1992-1994
Box 1, Folder 8 Promotional materials for lectures by Ko
 2002, 2005-2008

Correspondence, 1978-2011

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 9 Correspondence, 1982-1992
 1982, 1989-1992
Box 1, Folder 10 Correspondence, 1990-2000 (1 of 3) [Asian languages]
 circa 1995
Box 1, Folder 11 Correspondence, 1990-2000 (2 of 3) [Asian languages]
 circa 1995
Box 1, Folder 12 Correspondence, 1990-2000 (3 of 3) [Asian languages]
 circa 1995
Box 1, Folder 13 Correspondence, 1993
 1993
Box 1, Folder 14 Correspondence, 1994
 1994
Box 1, Folder 15 Correspondence, 1995; includes photos
 1995
Box 1, Folder 16 Correspondence, 1996-1998; includes photos
 1996-1998
Box 1, Folder 17 Correspondence, 1999-2002
 1999-2002
Box 1, Folder 18 "Correspondence from former students"
 1991-1998
Box 1, Folder 19 "Correspondence from former teachers"
 1978-1989
Box 1, Folder 20 Correspondence re: academic career; topics include invitations to talks and getting hired at Rutgers, also includes Ko's resume
 1993-1998, 2005-2006, 2011
Box 1, Folder 21 Correspondence re: American Council of Learned Societies; topics include fellowships and new course programs
 1986, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2010
Box 1, Folder 22 Correspondence re: Ford Foundation grants for upper level foreign language science courses; includes handwritten notes
 1991, 1993-1995
Box 1, Folder 23 Correspondence re: graduate student fellows and Women in Confucian Cultures conference
 1995-1996
Box 1, Folder 24 Correspondence re: MPH Entertainment documentary on the history of sex
 1998
Box 1, Folder 25 Correspondence re: proposed project on women in Chinese history; includes handwritten notes [Asian languages]
 1997
Box 1, Folder 26 Correspondence re: publications
 1991, 1993-1997, 2001, 2006, 2009
Box 1, Folder 27 Correspondence re: Women in Confucian Cultures projects; includes application
 1995-1996

Conferences, 1994-2018

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 28 American Historical Association annual meeting; includes agenda and handwritten notes
 2008
Box 1, Folder 29 American Historical Association annual meeting; includes agenda and handwritten notes
 2009
Box 1, Folder 30 Artisans and Artifacts; contains schedule and participants list
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 31 Arts and Humanities in the painting "Luoshenfu;" includes program and handwritten notes
 2006
Box 1, Folder 32 Association for Asian Studies annual meeting; includes program proposal by Ko and related correspondence
 1994-1995
Box 2, Folder 1 Association for Asian Studies annual meeting; contains bound program
 2013
Box 2, Folder 2 Association for Asian Studies annual meeting; contains bound program and handwritten notes
 2015
Box 2, Folder 3 Association for Asian Studies annual meeting; includes bound program and annotated papers
 2017
Box 2, Folder 4 Association for Asian Studies annual meeting; contains bound program and annotated papers
 2018
Box 2, Folder 5 Attending to Early Modern Women: Structures and Subjectives; includes programs and related correspondence
 2002-2003
Box 2, Folder 6 Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Gender, Genre, and the Negotiation of Knowledge in Late Qing China; contains program and annotated papers
 2005
Box 2, Folder 7 The Body at Work: Materials and Methods; contains annotated program
 2009
Box 2, Folder 8 Body Wholes, Body Parts: A Cultural History of the Body in Chinese Medicine; contains program
Box 2, Item 1 China Forum and International Symposium on Art Anthropology; bound papers [Asian languages]
 2011
Box 2, Folder 9 China Forum and International Symposium on Art Anthropology; includes program [Asian languages]
 2011
Box 2, Folder 10 Chinese Healing Traditions: Texts, Translations, Teaching; includes agenda and "Han Footles: The Measurement of Body Parts" by Ko
 2000
Box 2, Folder 11 Collecting China: Objects, Materiality, and Multicultural Collectors; includes agenda and handwritten notes
 2006
Box 2, Item 2 Conference on Regional Networks and Local Societies in Perspectives of Historical Anthropology; bound papers [Asian languages]
 2004
Box 2, Folder 12 Conference on Regional Networks and Local Societies in Perspectives of Historical Anthropology; contains program [Asian languages]
 2004
Box 2, Folder 13 Cross Cultural Artistic Exchange in Later Chinese and Japanese History; contains program and handwritten notes
 2005
Box 2, Folder 14 Fall Fellowship for American Educators by the Center for International Affairs, the Academy of Korean Studies, and the Korea Society; contains program booklet
 2010
Box 2, Folder 15 Female Bodies of Knowledge; includes program
 2002
Box 2, Folder 16 Framing the Other: Thirty Years After "Orientalism;" contains annotated program
 2008
Box 2, Folder 17 Fusion Culture: Fashion Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism; includes program and abstracts
 2009
Box 2, Folder 18 Gender, Labor, and Cultural Representation in Chinese History; includes agenda
 2018
Box 2, Folder 19 Gender Paradigms Before and After the Scholarship of Susan Mann; includes annotated papers
 2012
Box 2, Folder 20 Good Sex: Women's Religious Wisdom on Sexuality; includes agenda, handwritten notes, and "Good Sex: Issues and Frameworks" by Ko
 1997
Box 2, Folder 21 Graduate Student Conference on East Asia; contains program and panel discussant guidelines
 2005
Box 2, Folder 22 Graduate Student Conference on East Asia; includes handwritten notes and related correspondence
 2011
Box 2, Folder 23 Historical Systems of Innovation: The Culture of Silk in the Early Modern World, 14th - 18th Centuries; contains annotated papers
 2010
Box 2, Folder 24 Historical Systems of Innovation: The Culture of Silk in the Early Modern World, 14th - 18th Centuries; contains program, schedule, and annotated papers
 2010
Box 2, Folder 25 Humanities Public Forum Three; contains activity program for Ko
 2009
Box 2, Folder 26 Identity and Violence; includes poster and booklet [Asian languages]
 n.d.
Box 2, Folder 27 The International Conference: The City and Chinese Modernity; includes program and handwritten notes [Asian languages]
 2007
Box 2, Folder 28 The International Conference: Paths Towards Modernity; contains program
 2006
Box 2, Folder 29 The International Conference of the History of Science in East Asia; contains program
 2008
Box 2, Folder 30 The International Conference on the Early Modern World; contains handwritten notes [Asian languages]
 2005
Box 2, Folder 31 The International Conference on Gender Studies; contains program and handwritten notes
 2009
Box 2, Folder 32 The International Conference on Tang-Song Women in the Context of Historical Studies; includes program and photograph [Asian languages]
 2001
Box 2, Folder 33 The International Symposium on Chinese Family History Studies; includes program [Asian Languages]
 2002
Box 2, Folder 34 Itineraries of Materials, Recipes, Techniques, and Knowledge in the Early Modern World; includes program and handwritten notes
 2014
Box 2, Folder 35 The Making of Chinese Painting, 700 to the Present; includes agenda and abstracts
 2013
Box 2, Folder 36 Moving Forward: Gender and Chinese history; contains poster and "Portraits of Republican Ladies" by Joan Judge and annotated by Ko
 2010
Box 2, Folder 37 Museum of Chinese Art "fashion panel;" contains annotated question sheet
 n.d.
Box 2, Folder 38 New Directions in Chinese Women's History; includes program, handwritten notes, and related correspondence from Ko to participants
 2000-2001
Box 2, Folder 39 New Directions in Twentieth Century African American History; contains program and annotated reading
 2012
Box 2, Folder 40 New Media and Global Transformation; contains annotated program
 2009
Box 2, Folder 41 Private Life in Late Imperial China: Objects, Images, and Texts; includes program and "The Gender of Things" by Ko
 2004
Box 2, Folder 42 The Reinvention of Space, 1400-1850; contains program and handwritten notes
 2010
Box 2, Folder 43 Representing Things: Visuality and Materiality in East Asia; includes handwritten notes and "Entanglements of Body, Text and Stone" by Ko
 2009
Box 2, Folder 44 Re-Thinking Nineteenth Century China; contains participants list and handwritten notes
 2004
Box 2, Folder 45 Seeing and Touching Gender; contains papers [Asian languages]
 n.d.
Box 2, Folder 46 Social Constructions: Exploring Intellectual Spaces in East Asia; contains program
 2009
Box 2, Folder 47 Status and Skills: The Portrayal of Individuals in Chinese Historiography 10th - 19th Centuries; includes handwritten notes and "Gender Status and Skills" by Ko
 2009
Box 3, Folder 1 T'ang Studies: The Next Twenty Five Years; contains program
 2009
Box 3, Folder 2 Translated Feminisms: China and Elsewhere; contains schedule
 2009
Box 3, Folder 3 Unidentified title; contains booklet and handwritten notes [Asian languages]
Box 3, Folder 4 Unidentified title; contains handwritten notes, participants list, and clipping
 2002
Box 3, Folder 5 Unidentified title; contains schedule and readings [Asian languages]
 circa 2004
Box 3, Folder 6 Unidentified title: includes booklet, handwritten notes, and photo [Asian languages]
 2004
Box 3, Folder 7 Unidentified title; includes handwritten notes and readings [Asian languages]
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 8 Unidentified title; includes participants list, schedule, and poster [Asian languages]
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 9 Unidentified title; includes photo (1 of 2) [Asian languages]
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 10 Unidentified title (2 of 2) [Asian languages]
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 11 Women in Confucian Cultures in Pre-Modern China, Korea, and Japan; contains paperwork re: reimbursements
 1996
Box 3, Folder 12 Women in Confucian Cultures in Pre-Modern China, Korea, and Japan; includes budget and narrative report
 1994-1997
Box 3, Folder 13 Women in Confucian Cultures in Pre-Modern China, Korea, and Japan; includes correspondence re: organizing the conference and inviting participants
 1995-1996
Box 3, Folder 14 Women in Confucian Cultures in Pre-Modern China, Korea, and Japan; includes program and participants list
 1996

Teaching, 1991-2002

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 15 The Body and Textuality: Shaping a Cultural History of China; includes syllabi and handwritten notes
 Spring 1995
Box 3, Folder 16 China: The Middle Imperial Period; contains syllabus
 1991
Box 3, Folder 17 Body Inscriptions: The Case of Footbinding; includes syllabi and handwritten notes
 1994, 1996-1997
Box 3, Folder 18 Body, Subject, and Power in China; contains course proposal
 1997
Box 3, Folder 19 Feminist Texts; includes syllabi and handwritten notes
 1997
Box 3, Folder 20 "Graduate Seminar" re: Chinese history; includes syllabi and handwritten notes
 Spring 1993
Box 3, Folder 21 History of Chinese Culture and Society; contains syllabus
 1994-1995
Box 3, Folder 22 A History of Wen; includes syllabus and typed notes
 1996
Box 3, Folder 23 History of Women in China, Past to Present; contains syllabus
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 24 Teachers of the Inner Chamber: Women and Culture in Seventeenth Century China; contains syllabus
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 25 Sex and Text in China; includes syllabi and handwritten notes
 1999
Box 3, Folder 26 Various courses; contains syllabi from professors Ko likely used as research for her own classes (1 of 2)
 1993-2002
Box 3, Folder 27 Various courses; contains syllabi from professors Ko likely used as research for her own classes (2 of 2)
 1993-2002
Box 3, Folder 28 Western Theories and Chinese Women; includes syllabi and handwritten notes
 1991-1992
Box 3, Folder 29 Women and Family in Chinese History; includes syllabi and handwritten notes
 1992-1993
Box 3, Folder 30 Women and Family in Chinese History; includes syllabi and readings [Asian languages]
 1994-1996
Box 3, Folder 31 Women Im/migrants: Memories of Home in Asian America; includes syllabi and handwritten notes
 1998-1999

Writings, 1995-2018

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 32 Between the Boudoir and the Global Market: Shen Shou, Embroidery, and Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; includes annotated draft
 2005
Box 3, Folder 33 Bridging Past and Present: In Search of Footbinding's Origin, China Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; includes typed draft
 circa 1999
Box 3, Folder 34 Every Step a Lotus: Shoes in the Lives of Chinese Women; includes research materials and related correspondence re: revisions
 1999-2001
Box 3, Folder 35 Leaving Modern Nugong; contains annotated draft
 2012
Box 3, Folder 36 Locating Women and Gender in China; includes talk outline, readings, and handwritten notes [Asian languages]
 circa 2004
Box 3, Folder 37 Locating Women and Gender in China, I: Discovering "Woman" in Modern China; includes annotated drafts and readings [English and Asian languages]
 circa 2000
Box 3, Folder 38 Locating Women and Gender in China, III: What/Who is a Woman? Rethinking Body, Sex and Gender; includes typed draft and research materials
 n.d.
Box 3, Folder 39 The Power of Yin: Women in the Traditional Chinese Family; contains talk outline and handwritten notes
 2005
Box 3, Folder 40 Qing Expertise; contains annotated draft
 circa 2013
Box 3, Folder 41 Social Lives of Inkstones; contains talk outline
 2017
Box 3, Folder 42 The Subject of Pain; includes annotated drafts and handwritten notes
 1999-2000
Box 3, Folder 43 What They Don't Teach You in Japanese High Schools; includes typed drafts and research materials
 n.d.

Bata Shoe Museum Exhibit, 1996-2006

Container Description Date
Box 3, Folder 44 Clippings
 2001
Box 3, Folder 45 Handwritten notes [English and Asian languages]
 circa 2001
Box 3, Folder 46 Notebook (1 of 2) [Asian languages]
 circa 2001
Box 3, Folder 47 Notebook (2 of 2) [Asian languages]
 circa 2001
Box 3, Folder 48 Photos: color (1 of 4)
 circa 2001
Box 3, Folder 49 Photos: color (2 of 4)
 circa 2001
Box 4, Folder 1 Photos: color (3 of 4)
 circa 2001
Box 4, Folder 2 Photos: color (4 of 4)
 circa 2001
Box 4, Folder 3 Photos: negatives
 circa 2001
Box 4, Folder 4 Slides
 circa 2001
Box 4, Folder 5 Support materials
 2001

Subject Files, 1989-2008

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 6 People: G. William Skinner; contains memorial celebration programs
 2008
Box 4, Folder 7 People: Hsieh Ping-ying; contains bibliography
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 8 People: Wan-Ru; contains "a proposal for the Women's Right Day" on the occasion of her death
 1996
Box 4, Folder 9 Topic: Chinese Artist Academy; includes handwritten notes and clippings re: Yang Yan-Ping and Zang Shan-oing
 1982-1990
Box 4, Folder 10 Topic: gender and sexuality; includes clippings and readings
 2004
Box 4, Folder 11 Topic: International Visitor Program of the United States Information Agency; includes booklet, correspondence, and typed report
 1995
Box 4, Folder 12 Topic: International Visitor Program of the United States Information Agency; includes booklet and information on "American Indians Today"
 1997
Box 4, Folder 13 Topic: Language in Late Imperial China; contains reading
 2006
Box 4, Folder 14 Topic: The Pacific Century (PBS documentary series); includes series revision description
 circa 1999
Box 4, Folder 15 Topic: Rising Sun (movie): includes clippings, handwritten notes, and photos
 1993
Box 4, Folder 16 Topic: unidentified; contains handwritten notes [Asian languages]
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 17 Topic: unidentified; contains handwritten notes and annotated readings
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 18 Topic: unidentified; contains readings [Asian languages]
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 19 Topic: unidentified; includes handwritten notes and readings
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 20 Topic: "Van Gulik project, Taiwan, connoisseurship"; contains annotated readings and handwritten notes
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 21 Topic: "women's studies"; includes readings and handwritten notes [Asian languages]
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 22 Topic: Yani: The Brush of Innocence; contains art exhibition packet and handwritten notes
 1989
Box 4, Folder 23 Topic: The X Files (television show); includes slides and photo autographed by David Duchovny
 n.d.

Photographs, 1981-1991

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 24 Color photos, 1981-1991 (1 of 4)
 circa 1986
Box 4, Folder 25 Color photos, 1981-1991 (2 of 4)
 circa 1986
Box 4, Folder 26 Color photos, 1981-1991 (3 of 4)
 circa 1986
Box 4, Folder 27 Color photos, 1981-1991 (4 of 4)
 circa 1986
Box 4, Folder 28 Color photos, no date
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 29 Color photos and negatives, 1981-1991 (1 of 3)
 circa 1986
Box 4, Folder 30 Color photos and negatives, 1981-1991 (2 of 3)
 circa 1986
Box 4, Folder 31 Color photos and negatives, 1981-1991 (3 of 3)
 circa 1986
Box 4, Folder 32 Color photos and negatives, 1982 (1 of 3)
 1982
Box 4, Folder 33 Color photos and negatives, 1982 (2 of 3)
 1982
Box 4, Folder 34 Color photos and negatives, 1982 (3 of 3)
 1982
Box 4, Folder 35 Color photos and negatives, 1984
 1984
Box 4, Folder 36 Color photos and negatives, no date (1 of 3)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 37 Color photos and negatives, no date (2 of 3)
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 38 Color photos and negatives, no date (3 of 3)
 n.d.

Print Material, 1979-2010

Container Description Date
Box 4, Item 1 Abstracts and Papers on Tang-Song Women in the Context of Historical Studies [Asian languages]
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 39 The American Spectator
 1981
Box 4, Folder 40 Feminist News
 2010
Box 4, Folder 41 Pray for China Bi-Monthly, Chinese edition
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 42 Pray for China Bi-Monthly Report on Life and Thought Inside China Today
 1979-1982
Box 4, Folder 43 United States Guide to Asia Apparel and Fabric
 1986

Oversize Materials, 2001-2009

Container Description Date
Folder Pembroke Center Archives catch-all oversize box 2XXX Clipping: "Excruciatingly Pretty"
 2001
Folder Pembroke Center Archives catch-all oversize box 2XXX Clipping: "If the Shoe Fits"
 2001
Folder Pembroke Center Archives catch-all oversize box 2XXX Poster: "The Archives in the Age of 'Post-Feminism', 'Post-Theory', 'Post-Race'
Folder Pembroke Center Archives catch-all oversize box 2XXX Poster: "Musiking Late Ming China"
 2006
Folder Pembroke Center Archives catch-all oversize box 2XXX Poster: "Translated Feminisms: China and Elsewhere" (1 of 2)
 2009
Folder Pembroke Center Archives catch-all oversize box 2XXX Poster: "Translated Feminisms: China and Elsewhere" (2 of 2)
 2009
Folder Pembroke Center Archives catch-all oversize box 2XXX Poster: unidentified title [Asian languages]
 n.d.

Electronic Records on Removable Carriers, 1999-2001

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 44 3.5 inch disk: "CKJ - conf."
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 44 3.5 inch disk: "creative writing"
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 44 3.5 inch disk: "Eudora messages, Eudora 2.1.1 Fat"
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 44 3.5 inch disk: "File - papers (sum. 98)"
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 44 3.5 inch disk: "Frog House Collection"
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 44 3.5 inch disk: "Info week"
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 44 3.5 inch disk: "Letter file"
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 44 3.5 inch disk: "Letters, Rutgers courses"
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 44 3.5 inch disk: "Papers - wm warrior etc."
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 44 3.5 inch disk: "Translations, Reviews, Talks, fb book proposal, wn warrior"
 n.d.
Box 4, Folder 45 Audio cassette: "BBC Outlook"
 1999
Box 4, Folder 46 CD: "Library of Congress 2001 Illustrated Guide"
 2001

Restricted, 1981-1994

Container Description Date
Box 5, Folder 1 Color photos, 1981-1982; includes photos of C.L.
 1981-1982
Box 5, Folder 2 Color photos, 1982; contains photos of C.L.
 1982
Box 5, Folder 3 Correspondence from C.L. (1 of 3) [Asian languages]
 "1981-1986"
Box 5, Folder 4 Correspondence from C.L. (2 of 3) [Asian languages]
 "1981-1986"
Box 5, Folder 5 Correspondence from C.L. (3 of 3) [Asian languages]
 "1981-1986"
Box 5, Folder 6 Correspondence from Ko to C.L., 1982 [Asian languages]
 1982
Box 5, Folder 7 Correspondence from Ko to C.L., 1983; includes photos (1 of 2) [Asian languages]
 1983
Box 5, Folder 8 Correspondence from Ko to C.L., 1983; includes photos (2 of 2) [Asian languages]
 1983
Box 5, Folder 9 Correspondence from Ko to C.L., 1984-1987 [Asian languages]
 1984-1987
Box 5, Folder 10 Correspondence re: child welfare case
 1993-1994