1 10 66 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/d960d468f2cbe8b060d5a0c35d268ecd.jpg 8dee2aafa9f0d5fa59bdae3a1d8d2aff 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 Secretary to the Headmaster to C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Relief Committee, Shanghai, January 5, 1933 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Secretary to the Headmaster to C.Y. Sun, Chinese Foreign Relief Committee, Shanghai, January 5, 1933 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: Dr. Stearns is on further leave of absence from the Academy and is spending the year abroad. The package of tea which you sent him for Christmas has been received, therefore, in his absence and will be held here until his return to this country. He will appreciate the tea and also your thought of him. and you will no doubt hear from him personally upon his return. Very truly yours, Secretary to the Headmaster Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Secretary 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 January 16, 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 C.Y. Sun secretary to Dr. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/873c912e990a87dbd6e3f5304efa1ef7.jpg 65aff1efaf23d8f0f791c2880cc9428e 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 Notes regarding marriage status of Thomas Sun and work situation of Charles Sun, January 3, 1933 Subject The topic of the resource Notes regarding marriage status of Thomas Sun and work situation of Charles Sun, January 3, 1933 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 January 3, 1933 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 Notes Relation A related resource Thomas Kwang-Ywe Sun married to Violet Hsin-Chen September 29, 1932 Tientsin, China Charles Sun Protocole Bureau TCaichiaopu, Nanking 1/3/33 https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/8c7413c0bd119b3e76bc2c8fd545bfe5.jpg e0fd0b034db7debadc85cbb985e94b8f 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 C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, May 2, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from C.Y. Sun, Tientsin, to Alfred E. Stearns, May 2, 1932 Relation A related resource My dear Dr. Stearns: I am instructing the Tientsin Branch of the National City Bank of New York to advice their home office or their agent to collect from you the sum of six thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars and seventy-nine cents ($6215.79) or thereabout. On presentation of this, please make the payment, and I will feel obliged if you will advice me when the said payment is made. Sincerely yours, C.Y. Sun Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource C.Y. 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 May 2, 1932 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 C.Y. Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/62f15983dc14651f0f5a3145dbe9d076.jpg 1fcb3ca886d8c173142868ae667f47bb 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 Secretary to Dr. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Tientsin, March 14, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Secretary to Dr. Stearns to Thomas Sun, Tientsin, March 14, 1932 Relation A related resource My dear Mr. Sun: May I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of February 11 to Dr. Steams. Dr. Stearns is still away from Andover recuperating from his operation. He is getting along nicely, but he has not yet recovered sufficient strength to resume his school duties. He will, I know, be so glad to have this latest news from you, and I am forwarding your letter to him. Very truly yours, Secretary to Dr. Stearns Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Secretary to Dr. Stearns 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 March 14, 1932 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 secretary to Dr. Stearns Thomas Sun https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/e32ff391b05383003fba96c887b1b025.jpg a500ca4f3246c3eddd07ee9b4bfa05fb https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/7998e510a212731c44268a66d562935b.jpg 872687e758dd22302b525061a5219622 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 Charles Sun, Chinese Legation, London, March 17, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Alfred E. Stearns to Charles Sun, Chinese Legation, London, March 17, 1932 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alfred E. Stearns 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 March 17, 1932 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 Relation A related resource Dear Charlie: Your nice letter of February 26 reached me only yesterday, and brought real pleasure to all the members of the household, for Miss Clemons and Marjorie enjoyed it thoroughly, as did I. Frankly, I have been on the point of writing you for a long, long time, but since I have had no secretary during this period of my convalescence, I have found it utterly impossible to keep up with the letters which my kind and sympathetic friends have thrust upon me. Today I am stealing an hour at the office, my second visit only, and hence am sending this note in typewritten form. Needless to say. I am delighted to hear that your father has finally consented to allow you to return home. I have just dictated a letter to him telling him how pleased I am at this news. Just why he should have hesitated so long, I of course cannot expect to understand, but it has long seemed to me that both you and Tom should have gone back to China much sooner than this. Now, in view of all that has been happening over there lately, China needs more than ever men of your ability, poise, and idealism, - men who will play the game straight, as few politicians in any country appear to be able to do, who will win the respect of their friends and citizens, and whose clear vision will enable them to offer definite and attainable goals. I can’t help believing that you can and probably will play a big part in the reconstruction and unification of China, something that must be done, and soon, if China is to fill the place she ought to fill in the world, and to receive the justice and respect that would then be clearly her due. What a tragedy Japan has forced upon the world in these recent weeks! If I were younger, I think I should be tempted to line up with the Chinese in the actual fighting itself if I had the chance. Yes, I am getting along finely, and fast recovering the health and strength of earlier days. Indeed, the doctors tell me, and I think they are going to be right, that I shall be better than I have been for some years. They add the proviso, however, that I must go slow for a time yet if this goal is to be attained. And so, difficult as I find it, I am doing little but loaf, satisfying myself with the thought that it will all more than pay in the end. My thoughts will follow you back to your home-land. They will be with you constantly when you are there. Do write me and keep me posted as to your doings and plans. I don’t know of anything that could prove of more interest to me, for I have always considered and shall always consider that you are in a very peculiar way a member of my own home circle. As such, your doings will interest me as do those of my own children. Good luck and every best wish to you. Very sincerely yours, Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/3735dac6688e620591a85a630dc8fb2d.jpg 44697c0910049c192a10e7fb36235c92 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 Charles Sun, Chinese Legation, London to Alfred E. Stearns, February 26, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Letter from Charles Sun, Chinese Legation, London to Alfred E. Stearns, February 26, 1932 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles 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 26, 1932 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 Relation A related resource Dear Dr. Stearns, I read under the Faculty Notes section of the General School Interests of the January issue of the "Phillips Bulletin" that you had had a major surgical operation last November. It is so long ago since I last wrote you that I have quite lost touch of you. I sincerely hope that the operation was not serious and that you are now quite well again. A few words about myself, I think, will be of interest to you. I am planning to return home sometime next month, though the exact date of my departure is not yet fixed. After much energetic protesting and heart-breaking entreating, I was able to persuade my father to give me his consent to my return. He has always been very obstinate in refusing me this until Tom's return, which must have changed his view and weakened his arguement [sic] against my going back too. I have never been happy in England and I am really glad to leave this country soon. Again I wish that your health is still improving. Please write me when times permits, all about yourself. Please give my kindest regards to Miss Clemons. Ever sincerely yours, Charles Sun Dr. Alfred E. Stearns 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. Stearns 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 18, 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 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/f74a054d55060a26dc408fa9ca5bc1d4.jpg 8a55dfe99cd9ec89eb25bd503e017b0b https://chinesestudents.andover.edu/files/original/ba49301be239b8af027d0df76a486b7f.jpg a47a02e5a230b317d7e00d2f33329a28 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/. 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Title A name given to the resource Financial account of Thomas Sun, September 10 to December 1, 1928 Subject The topic of the resource Financial account of Thomas Sun, September 10 to December 1, 1928 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 10 to December 1, 1928 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