Documents - US-China

University Faculty, “Memoradum for President-Elect Nixon on U.S. Relations with China,” November 6, 1968

November 6, 1968

This document came to light when John Rousselot (R-Los Angeles, California) had it placed into the Congressional Record on August 6, 1971, with a month of President Nixon announcing that he would go to China. Rousselot served in the House of Representatives 1961-63 (CA-25) and 1970-83 (CA-25 and then CA-26).

CIA, Mao's Cultural Revolution - Origins and Development, Oct. 6, 1967

October 6, 1967

In the midst of China's Cultural Revolution, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency prepared a report on the forces leading to the launch of the Cultural Revolution and its first year. It was written by Philip L. Bridgham. This report was declassified in 2007 (40 years after its preparation). Bridgham published a versions of this in The China Quarterly.

Mao Zedong, Statement Supporting the American Negroes In Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism, August 8, 1963.

August 8, 1963

Mao Zedong made this statement in 1963. Peking Review published it in 1966. This statement was three weeks ahead of the March on Washington, which included Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. Mao refers to Robert Williams. Williams made it to China and, on National Day 1966, he spoke to a Tiananmen audience with Mao at his side.

Cairo Conference Communiqué, November 26, 1943

November 26, 1943

Press Communiqué

Soong Mei-ling, “Addresses to the House of Respresentatives and to the Senate,” February 18, 1943.

February 18, 1943

宋美龄1943年2月18日在美国众议院的演说

Mr. Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives of the United States:

Chinese Exclusion Act May 6, 1882

December 13, 1901

This act provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration. For the first time, Federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities.