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Stearns, July 2, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Telegram Relation A related resource CHICAGO ILL JUL 2 1931 ALFRED E STEARNS PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER MASS LEFT NEW YORK YESTERDAY AND ARRIVED IN CHICAGO TONIGHT AM LEAVING FOR THE COAST IN AN HOUR EVERYTHING FINE EXCEPT FOR PASSPORT CHINESE COUNSEL SAID I NEED NONE GOING BACK BUT HAVE TO APPLY ALL OVER AGAIN IF I WISH TO RETURN WILL CONSULT COUNSEL IN SANFRANCISCO THOMAS SUN 715A Dr. Alfred E. 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Title A name given to the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, San Francisco, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 7, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, San Francisco, to Alfred E. Stearns, July 7, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 7, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/a35995d12ad67561942f5cf512d284cb.jpg 569173b2a35ddcc8e42c04f08d81c933 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Tientsin, July 15, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Tientsin, July 15, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tom: Just a note to welcome you home, though you will doubtless be at home some little time before this letter reached you, and to thank you heartily for your fine letter written in San Francisco on July 7 and received by me today. Certainly the spirit in which you have written warms the cockles of my heart and makes me feel that whatever annoyance or trouble I may have had to undergo at times in connection with my American guardianship has, after all, been more than worth while. Personally, I have taken immense satisfaction in your development and progress during these last few years. I have told you this more than once and am glad to repeat it now. That is one of the chief reasons I have been ready to take up the cudgels for you in your desire to return to your native land. I do hope that after you have passed through the readjustment stage, which I know is going to be a hard and trying one for you, you will settle down and give your country the best that is in you. 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Title A name given to the resource Financial account of Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, September 17 to December 22, 1926 Subject The topic of the resource Financial account of Thomas Sun, Middlebury College, September 17 to December 22, 1926 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 17 to December 22, 1926 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Financial statement Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ce8a9ccc4eae4b2c100d139f67c12760.jpg 2241f2ccbce019c9a0532a820e06ddb7 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/2b9898ff7ba8ade2f62284ec30ef8ae2.jpg 603c4d6ce6e789ba362b3cdbfa351255 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/00576b70e9e89ceebc425723a9f7092c.jpg 3a8205e4ee6f9294b94baa74279cc0ef https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/f390d98dab720d89a0182f53843b7733.jpg f09fe96d31a579588ee4f74f18684d3c https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/143fc2f5f1a22fe98c62c765e769b09a.jpg 8982aa3f8d314484bf9466d39a69e256 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5a46a77f805a8f29f603be1c9ca33ca7.jpg 04773240e2f4c3f89fc7e0814338a339 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5fc3116ee3db7f45150b65ebb3439abc.jpg 175c18ba46b9b630474e2afd943f111d https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/9df96c7754d85d62fda251df287d7d6e.jpg cf6b7b31744a25ce65ec343a3238e519 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/b7f72326dcfe5f83cedc91b284f1935a.jpg 996b50815b60ce85a5f5046cc9ba98fd https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7ae42bb4c58c3c165cd1304ece778cc5.jpg 280392e3513a2bebc73008bcb0fa15fb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Financial account of Thomas Sun, February 28 to July 20, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Financial account of Thomas Sun, February 28 to July 20, 1931 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 28 to July 20, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d99080453294f1d7cc39edff3fba8c7b.jpg 2a779336d6ebff3e1f66dce3d7c19ffd https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/5b6bcafd7c43021ba17b4b6b41c7783c.jpg e4bc1e6acf5a6d27e1fb32b95acebe10 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/bb0809aceca8418abe58fcb43d0fbb7e.jpg e67234bf08361db448d182e974a6db25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns August 19, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Thomas Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns August 19, 1931 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Stearns, Isn’t it funny that I should write letter-heads of my letters as the above? It struck me rather queer that I should type the "U.S.A." after the usual "Andover, Mass.", but come to think of it, I am in another country now. Funny--just by crossing an ocean. When I touched Chinese soil for the first time in eleven years, I felt both joyful and sad. The two feelings mingled into a more or less fantastic ecstasy lost in the thrill of the moment. I looked around me--surely, this is my country. Honest faces, unknown to me, yet existing bv the millions in this land of "the dragon", --honest faces that bear the mark of centuries of toil. As I stepped off the gangplank, I sought to grasp the hand of someone near-by just to show others that I do have a friend in my own country, but none was extended. It was a rather cold reception. I spied Arthur with Mr. Souter and Mr. Fitch, good friends of my Father, and they waited patiently till the kind custom officer finished with me. Driving through Shanghai, I sat in the car dumb-founded--dumb-founded because of the visible potentiality of a great people. It is a potentiality that far surpassed the most ardent of my patriotic dreams. Ah, if only they are given a chance in this world of chances. Let them, or give them a chance, to express themselves, they ought to be the greatest people on the face of this world. The car came to a sudden stop. We stepped out and proceeded into a hotel where I met Father in his room. I said, "Hello, Dad" in the true American tune and extended my right hand to him. He grasped it and looked at me into my misty eyes, and smiled without a word. He shook my hand, but his hand was weak. From the conversation, I gathered that he had been dangerously ill for some time, and he just arrived in Shanghai that very morning after arising out of a sick-bed in the north. His health is fast losing his old vigor. Mary and I tried to make him to go back to Tientsin so as to be away from his well-intentioned, but at times annoying, friends and have a real rest along with the rest of the family. But he stoutly refused claiming that he has some business in Shanghai which he can not put off. Now he has finished that business and is looking for something else to do in Shanghai, while Mary and I are longing to be back in Tientsin--the old home town. The thing is that I haven’t seen Mother yet, because she did not come down with Dad to meet us. Father begs you to forgive him for not writing because of his ill-health and commanded me to send to you his very best regards and deepest appreciation of whatever you had done to evolve his upstart children into college graduates. Now, at this juncture, it may be proper for me to give you some of my impressions of my home country. My views, let me assure you, are not biased because of the pure fact that I am half foreigner by my education and living. I can not talk every time I ride through the city of Shanghai. I saw three and half millions of people living under subjection of a so-called superior race of the white uniformed men with rifles with bayonets fixed. It is truly humiliating to realize that a nation with four hundred million population should be so humble as to "take it on the chin" for so long. Then the question arises as to whether or not the Chinese are fit to rule themselves or are the foreigners afforded adequet [sic] protection with the much talked about and hated extraterritoriality. To any ordinary Chinese, the answer is apparent--so apparent as to need no discussion whatsoever. My education in the States, and especially my experience as the president of my fraternity in Middlebury taught me that if a person is given a chance to show up his best quality, he can not fail to do so provided he is given a free hand to do so (of course within reason). I have said in a previous paragraph that the Chinese is potentially a great race if they are only given a chance to express themselves. I repeat that again here with unlimited emphasis. I have seen my countrymen and countrywomen by the thousands living in humble circumstances--so humble as to be degrading. Why so degrading? Because of the civil wars? Yes. Because of the foreigners? Yes. Because of their willingness to live thus rather than be a decent and respectable citizen of the community? To answer that I must change the reply into a capitalized NO. The three questions might be all linked into one circumstance or a series of circumstances. Why the civil wars? To answer that question, one must ask, "why the foreigners?". In former years, China was contented and was progressing in her own way by being happy and content. After all being happy and content is progress in the Chinese way of thinking. It is not progress to own two automobiles on the installment plan and have the monthly salaries spent three or four years before hand. That may stimulate industry into greater production, but why do that when money is merely "forthcoming” instead of already ready cash? That is all besides the point, but Chinese (to get back at the subject) is a progressive people. The foreigners come into the country and create the most spectacular problem for whatever government in power to deal with. Being astute politicians valuing the public opinion highly, the government in power naturally make the foreigners its main issue and rise and fall with it, because in that issue, the government can always find public approval if succeeded. Thus everytime the government makes a move to establish the Chinese on basis of equality as the foreigners, the allied nations immediately dust off a volume of document and point to a phrase of an obscure and expired treaty with the Manchus. Will the foreigners believe that that phrase is against all decency and morality of internationality dealings? No. Then the foreigners will ask "Why won’t the government center its attention on interior affairs rather than on foreign affairs?". The answer to that is also apparent. Foreign affairs is more popular with the people, just because the Veteran’s Bonus Law is popular with the American public. It is patriotic--spectacularly patriotic, and the politicians are looking for things of that sort. If one government fail, another faction will start a civil war and try to try its hand at it. As a result, civil wars are common. In this respect, the Chinese people can not be cursed not blamed for the civil wars. Blame the few men who has power and money. If they are captured, they ought to be put to a slow death lasting painfully for months. Give China a free hand, and the world will witness the most amazing rise of the most amazing nation. Just give them a chance. You can tell from the faces of the people here that they are capable and willing. I am writing this to you, not because I am connected in any way yet with the Chinese government, but I think I am doing the duty of a common Chinese towards his country. Men in your station, I know, will understand and use influence toward the end of international decency and morality, honesty and fairness, and tolerance and friendliness. With that I resign from the subject. As for the trip across the pacific, the ocean was so calm as to be monotonous. There is little I can tell you, because I know Mary wrote you from every stop. I would have done so, but I have an inherent contempt for postal cards and the subsequent entries therein. I am sure Mary conveyed my best to you as I asked and hoped that she should do. Otherwise, I humbly apologize. With that I close with kindest regards to Miss Clemens and Marjory and deepest appreciation of your most thoughtful kindness to Arthur, Charlie, Mary, and myself. My father and Mother join me in sending greetings. Yours forever Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Sun Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phillips Academy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 19, 1931 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Rights Reserved by Phillips Academy Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Correspondence Dr. Alfred E. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/aa6576b9b67f415865ad6cd4c49acb11.jpg 352e699a1499196cbf8fe5b9d397ad47 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 29 Sun Siblings 1931, Head of School (Stearns) Records Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Tientsin, September 18, 1931 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Tientsin, September 18, 1931 Relation A related resource Dear Tommy: Your wonderfully interesting letter of August 19 reached me just in the midst of the opening rush of the new school year. I am not going to try for a minute to answer the letter now as it deserves, for it is just impossible to do so. I do want to tell you, however, that I am delighted at the reaction you have experienced on your return to your native land, and confirming what I have always said to you, I hope with all my heart that you will be able and eager to render a real and lasting service to your country, especially in these days of its great heed, and will find that your American training and experience have not after all been of any real hindrance, but rather a help in the big and appealing work ahead. And so this is just a brief note to let you know that I am thinking of you, tremendously interested in you as always, and hoping and praying that your life may be one of great usefulness to your country and so to the world. Don’t let yourself get into the rut that so many of our returned Chinese students have slumped into through chafing because they have not been able to secure important positions and attained unusual prestige at the very outset of their careers. You will doubtless have a long, hard fight ahead of you, and a man isn’t worth much unless he makes it, and he is worth a lot if he makes it with his head up and his eyes fixed on ultimate victory. Your old football experience at Middlebury ought to help you here, for you learned, as all of us did in our athletic days, that the victory that really left a sweet taste in our mouths was the one attained only after the hardest kind of fighting and the temporary pain of hard knocks. And so all kinds of good luck and every highest success to you. Keep me posted, please, for no one will be more keenly interested in your progress then I, and no one, I think, will be rooting harder for you all the time. Ever sincerely yours, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. 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