S. E. Solberg papers, 1943-2000

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Solberg, S. E. (Sammy Edward), 1930-
Title
S. E. Solberg papers
Dates
1943-2000 (inclusive)
1975-1998 (bulk)
Quantity
9.53 cubic feet (11 boxes, 1 tube, 1 vertical file)
Collection Number
1697 (Accession No. 1679-007)
Summary
Scholar with specialties in Korean literature and Asian-American literature, especially Korean-American and Fillipino-American literature.
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to all users, but access to portions of the papers restricted. Contact repository for details.

Additional Reference Guides

Languages
English, Korean, Khmer, French

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Sam Solberg was a scholar, translator, University of Washington professor, and community activist. In addition to being an authority on Korean Literature, he was a pioneer in the study of Asian American literature. He also played an active role in Asian American immigrant community organizations in Washington state.

S.E. (Sammy Edward) Solberg was born in Fertile, Minnesota, in 1930 and was raised in and around Big Timber and Cardwell, Montana. He earned a B.S. in education from Western Montana College in 1951 and served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in Korea. After earning his master's degree from the University of Washington in East Asian Area Studies in 1960, Solberg completed three years of graduate study at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, where he also served as an English language instructor.

Upon his return from Korea, Solberg worked as a teaching and research fellow at the University of Washington while working towards his doctorate in comparative literature, which he earned in 1971. From 1973-1974, he served as assistant to the director of the Institute for Comparative and Foreign Area Studies (now the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) and in 1974 was appointed to a part-time faculty position in the American Ethnic Studies and Comparative Literature Departments. He remained affiliated with the University of Washington for 30 years.

Solberg was first recognized as an authority in Korean literature. In 1963 the Asia Society asked him to serve as an editorial consultant for a proposed anthology of Korean literature, and his work resulted in the publication of the Korean literature issue of its journal, Literature East and West. He continued to translate and write about Korean literature, songs, and plays. However, Solberg's interests expanded to include Korean-American and Asian-American literature and the Asian immigrant experience. In the early 1970s, Solberg received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study Asian American literatures, which he used to do research in the papers of Filipino-American writer Carlos Bulosan. At the time of Solberg's research, Bulosan, who died in 1956, was an obscure figure. Bulosan's novel, American Is In the Heart, was first published in 1946 and was one of the few describing the Filipino immigrant experience. Solberg successfully campaigned for the University of Washington Press to reissue the long out-of-print work in 1973.

Solberg also promoted contemporary Asian-American writers. In 1976 Solberg and graduate student Steve Sumida organized the Pacific Northwest Asian American Writers Conference. The conference was the first in the region to bring together writers, students, and educators to examine literature by and about Asian Americans. Solberg himself presented a paper on Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) and helped bring renewed recognition to this early Chinese-American writer. Solberg was instrumental in the University of Washington's decision to reissue Japanese-American novelist John Okada's novel, No-No Boy in 1979. In the 1980s he published major papers on Carlos Bulosan and on the role of Hawaiian music and dance in American culture. He and Sid White co-edited People of Washington: Perspectives on Cultural Diversity in 1989. The book, a collection of essays about Washington's ethnic communities compiled to celebrate Washington's centennial, was awarded the Governor’s Writers Award in 1991. That same year he received the People’s Scholar Award of the Korean American Journalists Association. In the spring of 1997 he was awarded the Pioneer Award by the Association for Asian American Studies.

Solberg was long involved with the local Korean-American community in Seattle and closely followed Korean political affairs. In the 1980s he became heavily involved with Cambodian affairs. He started a correspondence with Prince Norodom Sihanouk, then living in exile in Paris. He also became advisor to the University of Washington's Khmer Student Association and other Khmer community organizations.

Solberg was a partner in two far east business ventures that capitalized on his Korean and other Asian connections, Amkor Trading Inc. and Lutusco International Ltd. The latter was involved in the import/export of goods and business consulting in Asia.

S.E. Solberg died on April 26, 2005.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The S.E. Solberg Papers consist of correspondence, writings, publications, and photographs that document Solberg’s career as a translator, editor, scholar, teacher, and pioneer in the promotion and study of Korean and Filipino-American literature. The collection consists primarily of Solberg’s correspondence with writers, editors, and scholars of Asian American literature, the correspondence he kept with newspapers and magazines that published his book reviews and articles, and copies of manuscripts sent to him during the 1990s.

The General Correspondence series consists largely of correspondence between Solberg and Asian-American writers, as well as other scholars interested in Korean-American and Filipino-American writers. Extensive correspondence with Bonnie Crown and Susan Conheim of the Asia Society documents Solberg’s role as editor for a proposed anthology of Korean literature. The work was never published, but the appointment resulted in publication of a Korean literature issue of the journal Literature East & West. Korean-American physician and writer Richard S. Hahn, husband of author Gloria Hahn (Kim Ronyoung), wrote Solberg extensively about his wife's work and his own biographical novel based on the life of his immigrant father, Jason Hahn. Other major correspondents include Filipino-American writers N.V.M. Gonzalez and F. Sionil José; Korean-American writers Won Ko, Ty Pak, and Gary Pak; Korean literature scholars Bruce Fulton and Kichung Kim, Bulosan scholar Epifanio San Juan; and Korean-American journalist K.W. Lee. There are also letters from journalist James Fallows and writers Doris Grumbach and William Saroyan. Some correspondence includes copies of small manuscripts, original poems, or translations.

There is also extensive correspondence concerning Solberg's involvement in Cambodian political, social, and cultural matters. The most frequent of his correspondents was Sothirak Pou. Pou, who would assume various governmental posts after the ouster of Lon Nol in 1991, lived in the Seattle area in the 1980s and was active in the royalist opposition to the Vietnamese-supported government in Cambodia. His correspondence with Solberg documents Pou's work in Thailand as leader of the royalist's Humanitarian Aid work, local Khmer community politics, and the efforts to train Cambodian wrestlers in Seattle for their participation in the 1987 ASEAN Games. There is also correspondence from Prince (later King) Norodom Sihanouk, then living in exile in Paris, his son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, and others involved in Front Uni National pour un Cambodge Independant, Neutre, Pacifique et Cooperatif (FUNCINPEC), the French acronym for National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia. A portion of the correspondence with Prince Sihanouk is in French.

Interdepartmental Correspondence regarding the University of Washington Department of American Ethnic Studies Chair Search Committee consists of three folders of letters, emails, and clippings from the period 1995 to 1999 and documents the controversy over hiring a new department chair in 1997. Solberg's correspondence with the University of Washington Press, which dates from 1971 to 1995, documents his efforts to have the UW Press re-issue Carlos Bulosan’s novel, America is in the Heart, as well as his roles as a consultant to the UW Press on subsequent projects in Asian-American literature and as a liaison between Asian-American writers and the UW Press.

The Writings of Others series contains manuscripts Solberg received for comment during the 1990s, many of which were subsequently published, as well as some correspondence. This series includes works by Jonathan Raban, F. Sionil José, and Gary Pak. The Writing Projects series consists primarily of Solberg’s correspondence with magazines, newspapers, and journals concerning publication of book reviews or articles he wrote as well as copies of some of his published reviews. There are also files on book projects he undertook, including a proposed book of Korean-American oral histories; Peoples of Washington: Perspectives on Cultural Diversity, published in 1989; and The Land and People of Korea, published in 1966 and re-issued in 1991.

The Conferences and Conventions files contain materials from conferences primarily on the topics of Asian-American studies and foreign policy. Audio tape recordings of one such conference, the Council on US-Korean Security Studies' First Annual Conference, are found in the Sound Recordings series. Papers in the Campaign Materials series were generated during Solberg's work on the Congressional campaign of James B. Wilson, who ran against United States Representative Tom Pelly in 1956. The Research Material series consists of academic writings, primarily on Southeast Asian history, collected by Solberg as background material.

Clippings primarily document the progress of the armed conflict in Cambodia during the 1980s. The Ephemera is largely related to Asian American cultural and student events. There are posters, fliers and programs from Nippon Kan Heritage Association and other Asian American arts and cultural groups. There are also fliers and advertisements of a more commercial nature aimed at the local Korean American community. The Subject Series consists primarily of files that document Solberg’s interest in a variety of issues. The most prominent concern the Asian American community in Washington state and Asian American and ethnic studies.

The collection contains seven subgroups. The largest of these is the American Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences subgroup. The AIHSS was a nonprofit organization founded in 1991 dedicated to high-quality translation and publication of Korean-language writings into English. Solberg founded the organization with James Namchin Kim, a Korean-American entrepreneur and business consultant, and served as its director from 1992 to 1995. The papers in this subgroup consist primarily of files documenting events sponsored by AIHSS. Also included are papers documenting the planning of the Korean Literature in Translation Conference, organized by Solberg and University of Washington colleague Bruce Fulton and held in Seattle in 1991. The conference was funded by James Kim.

The Lotusco International, Ltd. subgroup contains files from one of Solberg's business ventures. Only a portion of these records were retained, primarily those concerned with a project to introduce a containerized vegetable growing system in Cambodian displaced persons camps in Thailand. Information on this topic is also located in the subject series file on Vert-I-Grow Systems.

The remaining five subgroups document Solberg’s involvement with the Asian immigrant community in the Puget Sound region, particularly the Cambodian and Korean communities.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Donor's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Arranged in eight series:

  • Personal and professional papers
  • American Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, 1989-1995
  • Cambodian Democracy Support Group, 1984-1992
  • Khmer Buddhist Society of Seattle TEACH project, 1992
  • Korean American Historical Society, 1994-1998
  • Lotusco International, Ltd, 1984-1988
  • Melus (Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), 1976-1989
  • Northwest Asian Weekly foundation, 1994-1995

Acquisition Information

The S.E. Solberg papers were donated by S.E. Solberg in installments from August 1971 to October 2001.

Processing Note

Processed by Catherine G. O'Brion and Midori Okazaki.

This accession is a merger of accessions 1679, 1679-2, 1679-3, 1679-4, 1679-5 and 1679-6. Processing was completed in 2007.

Approximately 100 prints, 3 negatives and 4 slides of photographs of Korea taken by Hyongwon Kang for Solberg's book, The Land and People of Korea, were relocated to the Photography Collection, PH Accession No. 2002-006 on August 31, 2001.

One carton of business records, primarily of Lotusco International, Ltd., and typescripts of Peoples of Washington were discarded during processing in 2005.

Twenty six issues of Washington State Korean News and a single issue of Korea Focus were transferred to the East Asia Library. Forty-seven other publications, mostly on Korean topics, were sent to the Libraries' Gifts Processing in 2005.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Personal and Professional PapersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Biographical Features
Box/Folder
1/1
Curriculum Vitae
undated
Incoming Letters
Box/Folder
1/2
Cook, Jim
1958-1959
1/3
Chong, Johnnie (SaBonn International Corporation)
1963
1/4
Dong, Choong Sin
1958-1959, undated
1/5
Kennel, Nancy Lee
Includes letters and poems.
1987
1/6
Lau, Allen Chong
1989-1998, undated
1/7
A-L
1959-2000
1/8
M-Z
1978-1998
Outgoing Letters
Box/Folder
1/9
to Seattle Weekly
1988-1989
1/10
A-Z
1964-1989
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
1/11
Aronson, Marc (Harper & Row, Harper Collins, Henry Holt)
1989-2000, undated
1/12
Bernard, Miguel, S.J.
1975-1976
1/13
Blicksilver, Edith
1978
1/14
Bruce, Karl
1964-1966
1/15
Bulosan, Aurelio
1974-1982
1/16
Cambodian Study Center
1982-1989
1/17
Cellar Bookshop
1976
1/18
Chen, Mike
1976
1/19
Chen, Yoguang
1983-1987
1/20
Cho, Sungkyu
1964-1965
1/21
Choe, Ikhwan
1965, 1984
1/22
Chong, Mun-Bae
1975-1979
1/23-24
Chun, Malcolm N.
re: Hawaiian Traditions
1989-1993
1/25-28
Chung, Yoojin (Sung Sook)
1984-1998
1/29-30
Conheim, Susan (Asia Society Asian Literature Program)
1963-1968
1/31
Council on US Korean Security Studies
1976-1988
1/32-44
Crown, Bonnie R. (Asia Society)
1963-1981
1/45
Desoto, Hisaye Yamamoto
1976-1977
1/46
Fallows, James ( The Atlantic)
1987
1/47-49
Fulton, Bruce
1988-1999
1/50-55
Gonzalez, N.V.M.
Includes photographs of Gonzalez's 1994 visit to Seattle
1975-1999, undated
1/56
Grumbach, Doris ( New Republic)
1974-1978
1/57
Hahn, Gloria (also known as Ronyoung Kim)
1982-1987
1/58-59
Hahn, Richard S.
Includes drafts of autobiography and photographs of Richard, Gloria and Jason Hahn.
1987-1994
2/1-2
Hahn, Richard S.
1994-1995
2/3
Hiraoka, Jesse
1976
2/4
Hom, Marlon
1983-1985
2/5
Howard University Press
1982-1983
2/6
Iek, Chanthy
1986-1988
2/7-10
José, Francisco Sionil (Frankie)
1962-1990
2/11
Kampuchean Community Services of Washington State
1986
2/12
Kang, Connie
1985-1995
2/13
Kang, Hyongwon
1989-1997
2/14
Khmer Student Association at the University of Washington
Includes five undated photographs of a graduation ceremony.
1986-1987, undated
2/15
Kilburn, Kumi
1978-1986
2/16
Kim, Andrew H.
1981-1990
2/17-18
Kim, Kichung
1975-1999, undated
2/19
Kim, Uchang
1978-1982
2/20
Kim, Yongkwon
1964
2/21
Kim, Young-Ho
1984-1985
2/22-23
Ko, Won
1962-1998
2/24-26
Lee, K.W.
1979-1999, undated
2/27
Lee, Sung-Il
1991, 1996
2/28
Leong, Russell
1977-1993
2/29
Lew, Walter
1991-1997, undated
2/30
Li, David
1990
2/31
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin
1991-1997
2/32
Ling, Amy
1981-1991
2/33
Lowenstein, Barbara (Lowenstein Associates)
1988
2/34
Lowry, Mike
1985
2/35
Lukoff, Fred
1964-1966
2/36
Mar, Lauren
1980, 1983
2/37
McWilliams, Carey ( The Nation)
1973-1979
2/38
Meissenburg, Karin
1981-1988
2/39
Morantte, P.C.
1976-1978
2/40
Mori, Toshio
1976-1978
2/41
Murayama, Milton
1976
2/42
Nguyen, Dinh-Hoa
1976, 1978, 1988
2/43
Nomura, Gail (See also: Stephen Sumida)
1989, 1997, undated
2/44
Norodom Ranariddh, Prince of Cambodia (see also Stephen H. Sumida)
1985-1987
2/45
Norodom Sihanouk, Prince of Cambodia
1984-1988
2/46
Ogawa, Ai
1976-1977
2/47
O'Rourke, Kevin
1981-1982
2/48
Ota, Cary
1975
2/49
Pak, Gary
Includes typescripts of three Pak stories.
1988-1998
2/50-51
Pak, Ty (Pak T'ae-young)
Includes writings and photographs of Pak
1984-1989, 1990
2/52
Phu, Lyvuth
1987-1988
2/53-54
Pou, Sothirak
1984-1987
2/55
Rao, K.B. ( New Quarterly)
1976, 1978
2/56
Ray, Lila
re: translation of Sindhi poems by H.I. Sadarangani
1964-1965
2/57
Riach, Harold (Shim Young Shik)
Includes slide of Tlingit raven rattle.
1982, 1984
2/58
San Juan, Epifanio
1972-1976
2/59
Santos, Bienvenido
1974-1987
2/60
Saroyan, William
1973-1976
2/61
Schwarz, Henry G.
1973-1974
2/62
Shepard, Martin
1986
2/63
Sisowath Sirirath, Prince
1984, 1987
2/64
Skilland, William E.
1963-1966
2/65
So, Chhalem
1984-1987
2/66
Song, Cathy (Davenport)
1984-1989
2/67
Stevens, A. Wilber
1963-1965
2/68
Suh, Doo Soo
1962-1964
2/69
Sumida, Stephen H. (and Gail Nomura)
1981-1998
3/1
Takami, David A.
1990-1991
3/2
Tan, Nady
1985-1989
3/3
University of California Press
1971
3/4
University of Iowa Press
Includes manuscript by Ko Won.
1968
3/5
Vos, Fritz
Includes photograph, possibly of Vos
1961-1970, 1988-2000, undated
3/6-7
White, Sid
Regarding Peoples of Washington project
1987-1991
3/8
White-Parks, Annette
1988-1989, 1995
3/9
Wong, Shawn Hsu
1975-1977, 1991-1997
3/10
Yabes, Leopoldo Y.
1976
3/11
Yamane, Kazuo
1976-2000
3/12
Yin, Leuth
1982-1992
3/13
Yoon, Whan
1987-1988
3/14
Yu, Beong-cheon
1963
3/15
Yu, E. Sang
1964-1966, undated
3/16
A-H
1968-1998
3/17
J-K
1964-1995
3/18
L-P
1965-1992
3/19
S-Z
1964-1994
General Correspondence Regarding:
Box/Folder
3/20
Asian American Artists
1977
3/21
Bulosan, Carlos
1975-1976
3/22
No-No Boy, by John Okada
1975-1976
3/23-24
University of Washington International Programs
1973
Interdepartmental Correspondence
Box/Folder
3/25-26
University of Washington Asian American Studies Program
1975-1984
3/27-31
University of Washington Press
Scholarly use only. No copying until 2050.
1971-1995
Interdepartmental Correspondence Regarding:
Box/Folder
3/32
Lee, Douglas
1982-1983
3/33-35
University of Washington Department of American Ethnic Studies, Chair Search Committee
1995-1999
VF
1593
University of Washington Department of American Ethnic Studies, Chair Search Committee
Restricted; contains materials exempt from public disclosure.
Items were removed from unrestricted file.
1996-1997
Box/Folder
3/36
University of Washington Asian American Studies
1980-1984. undated
3/37
University of Washington Asian American Studies Advisory Committee
1981, 1983-1984
3/38
University of Washington Asian American Studies Occasional Monograph Series
1980-1984
Writing Projects - Articles and Reviews
Also includes reviews by others.
Box/Folder
3/39
Amerasia Journal
1971, 1979, 1991
3/40-41
Asian Student (a publication of the Asia Foundation)
1968, 1973-1978
3/42-43
Clay Walls
Reviews by Gloria Hahn and others
1986-1988
3/44
East is East
Review of America is in the Heart, by C. Bulosan.
1979
3/45
Great Literature of the Eastern World
1995
3/46
Journal for Asian Studies
1991
3/47
The Korea Herald
1984
3/48
Korea Journal
1974, 1979, 1991
3/49-50
Korea Times
1964, 1981, 1989
3/51
Korean Culture
1984-1986
3/52
Koreatown Newspaper
1983-1984
3/53-54
The Literary Review
1963-1972
4/1-2
Literature East and West magazine project
1964, 1970
4/3
The Nation
1973, 1988-1989
4/4
New Ethnic American Literature and Arts Encyclopedia
1994-1997
4/5
New York Asian News
1991-1993
4/6
Solberg review of The Neutralization Approach to Korean Reunification, by Johan Galtung
1989
4/7
Solberg review of Women Struggling for a New Life, by Ai Ra Kim
1996
Writing Projects - Books and Book Proposals, and Plays
Box/Folder
4/8
Korean-American Oral Histories
1989, 1994
4/9-11
The Land and People of Korea
1966-1991
4/12
Peoples of Washington
1988-1989
4/13
Peoples of Washington - Chronology
undated
4/14
Peoples of Washington - Closing Essay
1988
4/15
Peoples of Washington - Consultants
1978-1988
4/16
Peoples of Washington - Editorial Notes
1988
4/17-18
Peoples of Washington - Exhibit
1986-1989, undated
4/19
Peoples of Washington - Washington State University Press
1989-1990
4/20
The Real McCoy: A Book of Quotations from People of Color
1992
4/21
"Timothy"
Correspondence regarding a play by Solberg.
1951
Writings
Box/Folder
4/22
The Silence of Love
Translations of poems by Han Yong-Un.
1979
4/23
Translation of poems by Chong Chi-Yong
1979
Writings Of Others
Box/Folder
4/24
Asian-American Writings from the University of Washington
1961-1975, undated
4/25-26
Big Aiiiieeeee bibliography
1986
4/27
Cambodian Student Papers
1985
4/28-29
Chung, Donald K.
1984
4/30
Extraordinary Asian Americans (Childrens Press)
1992-1993
4/31-32
Fenkl, Heinz Insoo, In the House of the Japanese Colonel
undated
4/33
Ferreria, Therese
undated
4/34
Fulton, Bruce
Book reviews
1992
4/35
Hahn, Richard, Tiger: A Patriot in Exile
1995
5/1
Jaffe, Nina, Older Brother, Younger Brother
1994-1995
5/2-3
José, F. Sionil Mass: A Novel
undated
5/4
Kim, Chungmi
includes photograph and correspondence
1982-1993
5/5
Kim, Suck-Min, "Roses Are Not Azaleas" (short story)
undated
5/6
Kim, Susie Jie Young
Translation of Where the Organ Once Stood
1994
5/7
King, Kieu-Anh et. al. Viva la Huelga : The Ethnic Studies Students' Association's Reflections on and Vision for the University of Washington's American Ethnic Studies Department (book manuscript)
1997
5/8
Kister, Daniel
Translation of poetry of Chong Chi-yong
1992
5/9
Ko, Won
1990
5/10
Kuon, Kroal
University of Washington term paper
1984
5/11
Lee, Paul (Munhak, Segye), "A Little Angel" (poem)
undated
5/12-13
Pak, Gary A Ricepaper Airline (book manuscript)
1991
5/14
Raban, Jonathan, The Gold Mountain (book)
1990
5/15
Stevenson, Rosemary
undated
5/16
Takami, David, Shared Dreams (book manuscript)
1989
5/17-18
Tan, Mei Ching
Copy of thesis.
1993-1994
Newsletters
Box/Folder
5/19
America-Korea Trade Club
1979-1980
5/20
Community History
1989
5/21
Front Uni National pour un Cambodge Independant, Neutre, Pacifique et Cooperatif- Armee Nationale Sihanoukienne (FUNCINPEC - ANS)
1989
5/22
Khmer Conscience
1989
5/23
The Khmer Nationalist
Partial issue
1988
5/24
Korean Trade News
1979-1981
5/25
(Chang Hei) Lee Memorial Fund
1981-1983
5/26
SEASPAN
1988-1989
5/27
Vietnam Culture
1987-1988
5/28
Vision (India Arts and Heritage Society)
1996-1999
5/29
Washington State Korean Students Association
1976
Newspapers
Box/Folder
5/30
Asian Focus
1996
5/31
The Freedom Republic
1973
5/32
Hanmin Shinbo
1973
5/33
Khmer News
undated
5/34
RAIN: The New Generation, Kenneth Chang, ed.
1993
Publications
Box/Folder
5/35
Asian Students Coalition Handbook, 1973-1974
1973
5/36
Association of Korean Christian Scholars in North America
1977
5/37
Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars
1988
5/38
Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win
1974
5/39
Far East Reports
1972-1975
5/40
Kae Chok Ji (Pioneer Magazine)
1973
5/41
Korean Signal
1973
5/42
Readings in English Literature, Yonsei University
undated
5/43
Ronin
1972-1973
5/44
University of Washington Asian American Studies Program Occasional Monograph Series Nos. 1 and 2
1980-1981
5/45
The Yellow Journal
1983
5/46
Reports: Meeting the National Need for Minority Scholars and Scholarships
1989
5/47
News Releases: Permanent Mission of Democratic Kampuchea to the United Nations
1981-1982
5/48
Grant Files: NEH Fellowship
1973-1977
Conferences And Conventions
Box/Folder
5/49
ASPAC 1983 (Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast)
1983
6/1
Asian American Conference, Seattle
See also posters in box 9.
1980
6/2
Asian American Education Conference, Seattle
1976
6/3
Asian American Foreign Policy Conference
1980
6/4-5
Asian and Pacific American Education
1978-1981
6/6
Association for Asian Studies, Western Conference
1988
6/7
Columbia River Watch
1978
6/8
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines
1977
6/9-11
Council on U.S.-Korean Security Studies
1985-1995
6/12
Demonstration Project for Asian Americans Symposium
1976
6/13
Japanese America
1979-1980
6/14
Korean American Journalists Association
1991
6/15
Korean Literature Society of America
1989
6/16
Mid-Pacific Institute
1978
6/17
Modern Korean Poetry Conference
Regarding Peter H. Lee
1977-1979
6/18
Pacific Northwest Asian American Writers Conference
Includes portraits of participating writers, including Shawn Wong and NVM Gonzalez. See also Posters (box 9).
1976
6/19
The Pacific Summit and Symposia
1989
6/20
Talk Story Conference
1978
6/21
Washington State Asian and Pacific American Symposium
1979
6/22
Will Cambodia Survive?
1985
Research Files
Box/Folder
6/23
Cady, The History of Southeast Asia, Cambodia Sections
undated
6/24
Gordon, " "The Third Indochina Conflict"" (article)
undated
6/25
Myrdal, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, vol I, Cambodian Sections
undated
6/26
Tate, The Making of Modern Southeast Asia.
undated
6/27
Van Esterik, "Cultural Factors Affecting the Adjustment of Southeast Asian Refugees" (article)
undated
6/28
Miscellaneous
1980, undated
Campaign Materials
Materials re: James B. Wilson's campaign for the 1st Congressional district of Washington State, 1956.
Box/Folder
6/29
News Releases: American For Democratic Action
1956
6/30
Reports for the Governor's Conference on Education
1954
6/31
Pamphlets
undated
6/32
Clippings
1956
6/33
Notes and Writings
1956
6/34
Newsletters - Democratic Fact Sheet
1956
Clippings
Box/Folder
6/35-38
Cambodia
1983-1989
6/39
Kang Hyongwon visit to North Korea
1991
6/40
Korea Times - Seattle
1989
6/41
Southeast Asia
1984
7/1
"Textbooks: An American Tragedy" by Connie Kang and Dexter Waugh
1990
7/2
Miscellaneous
1979-1989
Ephemera
Box/Folder
7/3-4
Asian America
1972-1989
7/5-6
Korean American
1974-1986, undated
7/7
Nippon Kan Heritage Association
1985-1989
7/8
Miscellaneous
1975-1990, undated
Posters
Box
9/1
Asian American
29 posters. Includes student and campus events.
1974-1989, undated
tube:oversize
10
Asian/Pacific Heritage Week
1980
box:oversize
9/2
Watercolor Paintings by Suiho Miyao of Minidoka and Tule Lake Relocation Centers
1943, 1944
Box/Folder
7/9
Photographs: Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Prince Norodom Ranariddh
undated
Sound Recordings
Box
11
Dan Quayle's Speech in Site B Camp, 5/4/89
1 sound cassette
1989
11
Council on US-Korean Security Studies, First Annual Conference, tapes 1-5, 7-11, summation & business meeting
13 sound cassettes
Of the 11 sound cassettes of the proceedings, the collection has only 10; sound cassette number 6 of 11 was not received by the Libraries.
1985
Subject Series
Box/Folder
7/10
1964 Magsaysay Award Nomination
1961-1964, undated
7/11-12
America Korea Trade Club
1980-1984
7/13
America Korea Trade Club Newsletter
1980-1982, undated
7/14
Asia Society, "Asia"
1978-1979
7/15
Asian American Bilingual Center
1980-1981, undated
7/16
Asian American Historical Outline
1982
7/17
Asian and Pacific Island Youth Employment Proposal
1979, undated
7/18
Association for Asian/Pacific American Studies
1978-1980
7/19
Association for Khmer Education
1987, undated
7/20
Cambodian Association Refugee Relief Center
1982
7/21
Cambodian Community Club of Washington State
1984-1985
7/22
Cambodian Studies Center
1987
7/23
Cambodian Wrestling Team
1986-1987
7/24
Center for Asian Arts
1977, 1979
7/25
Choe, Martha, Seattle City Council campaign
1991
7/26
Daesan Foundation
1993-1995
7/27
Filipino National Historical Society
1980-1992
7/28
FUNCINPEC
1985
7/29
International Rescue Committee, Inc.
1984-1986
7/30
Japanese America: Contemporary Perspectives on the Internment
1979
7/31
José, F. Sionil, proposed lecture at University of Washington
1978, undated
7/32
Khmer Cultural Night
1982
7/33
Khmer Students Association
1982, undated
7/34
Korean Center International Pen - A World Association of Writers
1996
7/35
Korean Community Counseling Center
1993-1994
7/36
Korea Contacts
1958-1992, undated
7/37
Korean Student Association at Stanford
1990
7/38
Korean Student Survey
1984
7/39
Lee, K.W.
1973-1989, undated
7/40
Lew, Walter
Letters of reference
1995-1996
7/41
Modern Language Association Commission on Minority Groups
1976
7/42
National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education
1979-1982
7/43-44
National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education Research Seminars
1981
7/45
National Association for Ethnic Studies
1989
7/46, 8/1
Norodom Ranariddh's Visit
1985
8/2
Norodom Sihanouk Visit
1984, 1987
8/3
North Korea Trip
1988, 1990
8/4
Pacific Rim Institute
1990
8/5
Pine Tree Club, Yonsei University, Seoul
1962
8/6
Purst Middle School Renovation Project, Cambodia
Includes photographs
1995
8/7
Refugee Forum of King County
1982-1987
8/8
Sam, Sam-ang
1989
8/9
Seattle-Washington State Korean Association
undated
8/10
Sodium Sulfate in Okanogan - Export to Korea
Includes photographs
1993
8/11
South-North Red Cross Conference
1972-1973
8/12
Southeast Asian Studies
1989-1990, undated
8/13
"This City Seattle" Project, Seattle Public Library
1978
8/14
Trade Legislation
For America Korea Trade Club Newsletter.
1980
8/15
University of Washington Asian American Studies
1975
8/16
University of Washington Social Sciences Field Committee
1972-1978
8/17
Vert-I-Grow Systems, Cambodian/Thai Proposal
1986
8/18-19
Washington Commission on Asian American Affairs
1979-1988
8/20
Washington State Library (Governor's Award)
1991

American Institute For Humanities And Social Sciences, 1989-1995Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Organization
Box/Folder
8/21-23
Certification of Incorporation
1991, 1993-1995
8/24
Application for Tax Exemption
1991
8/25
International Christian Cultural Center and AIHSS
1994
Box/Folder
8/26
Incoming Letters
1993, 1994, undated
8/27
Outgoing Letters
1992, 1994
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
8/28
The Asia Society
1993
8/29
International Christian Culture Center
1994
8/30-31
Korean Culture and Arts Foundation
1990, 1993-1994
8/32
Republic of Korea Consulate General, Seattle
1992, 1993
8/33
Ro, Kun-Il
1994
8/34
Sumitomo Bank
1994
Box/Folder
8/35-36
Intra-organizational Correspondence
1991-1996
Grant Files
Box/Folder
8/37-38
The Korea Foundation
1994
8/39
Korean Culture and Arts Foundation
1993-1994
8/40
United States - Korea Foundation
1994
8/41
Rejected Applications
1992-1993
8/42
Newsletters: Korean Community Counseling Center
1993
Newspapers
Box/Folder
8/43
Asia Trade Journal, Asia Today
1989
8/44
RAIN, The New Generation
1993
Box/Folder
8/45
Negatives
35mm negative strips of unidentified persons and events.
undated
Subject Series
Box/Folder
8/46
Forum Foundation
1992
8/47
Morning Star Korean Traditional Culture Institute
1993-1995
Event Files
Box/Folder
8/48
Fourth Annual Exhibition, Korean Artists of Washington State, First Annual Pacific Northwest Korean Students' Art Contest
1994
8/49
Chung Yoojin P'ansori Concert
1993, undated
8/50
Gonzalez, N.V.M., visit
1993
8/51
Korobochenko, City of Moscow Delegation Dinner
1992
Conferences and Conventions
Box/Folder
8/52-53
First Korean American Political Forum
1992
8/54-56, 12/1-2
Korean Literature in Translation
1991-1992
12/3
What is Korean about Korean Literature?
1992
12/4
Women and Minorities, Inc., "The Challenges Facing the Minority Media in Promoting Women and Minority Businesses"
1993
12/5
Women of Vision
undated

Cambodian Democracy Support Group, 1984-1992Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 12/6-8

Includes correspondence, a Non-Communist Resistance Bulletin; a political program, newsletters, and speeches for FUNCINPEC; writings, a photograph of Solberg in audience with Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Angkor Khmer News newspaper, meeting notices, by-laws, and resolution.

Khmer Buddhist Society of Seattle, Teach [Temple Education Community Healing] Project , 1992Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 12/9-11

Includes 3.5" computer disk

Includes project proposals and summaries, and correspondence.

Korean American Historical Society, 1994-1998Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 12/12-13

Includes correspondence, by-laws, articles of incorporation, writing review by Solberg, and a brochure.

Lotusco International, Ltd, 1984-1988Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
12/14
Organization - Business Licence
1988
12/15
Outgoing Letters
1984-1985
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
12/16
Ceretech, Ltd.
1985-1986
Subject Series
Box/Folder
12/17
1988 Seoul Olympics
undated
12/18
David Camp Proposal (Thailand)
1985-1988
12/19
Education Programs Site B
1987

MELUS (Society For The Study Of The Multi-Ethnic Literature Of The United States), 1976-1989Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 12/20-22

Includes general correspondence and member directory.

Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation Minutes, 1994-1995Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 12/23

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • American literature--Asian American authors--Study and teaching
  • Authors, Filipino--20th century--Correspondence
  • College teachers--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives
  • Korean literature--Study and teaching
  • Koreanists--Washington (State)-- Seattle--Archives

Personal Names

  • Bulosan, Carlos
  • González, N. V. M., 1915-1999--Correspondence
  • José, F. Sionil (Francisco Sionil), 1924- --Correspondence
  • Ko, Won--Correspondence
  • Norodom Sihanouk, Prince, 1922-2012--Correspondence
  • Pak, Gary, 1952- --Correspondence
  • Pak, Ty--Correspondence
  • Solberg, S.E. (Sammy Edward), 1930-2005--Archives
  • Sumida, Stephen H

Corporate Names

  • Asia Society
  • University of Washington Press

Geographical Names

  • Cambodia--Politics and government

Form or Genre Terms

  • Photographs
  • Posters
  • Sound recordings
  • Watercolors (paintings)

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)