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Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China) records,ollege Archives, CA-MS-00016, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.

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The Ginling College Records were processed by Alissa Chadburn 1998 and Katrina Cokeng 2002, Friends of the Smith College Libraries archival interns.