{"id":221,"date":"2012-12-02T14:05:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/?p=221"},"modified":"2013-01-24T14:06:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T14:06:22","slug":"ida-pruitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Ida Pruitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2013\/01\/269999_135435316608860_1356728350_n.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-222\" title=\"269999_135435316608860_1356728350_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2013\/01\/269999_135435316608860_1356728350_n.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2013\/01\/269999_135435316608860_1356728350_n.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/files\/2013\/01\/269999_135435316608860_1356728350_n-300x268.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the birthday of Ida Pruitt, an American writer, educator, and social worker born in China in 1888.<\/p>\n<p>Ida Pruitt lived in Hwanghsien, a village in Shantung Province, until she was twelve and then went on to be educated in the United States. She attended Cox College in College Park, Georgia (1906-1909); received a B.S. from Columbia University Teachers&#8217; College (1910); and studied social work in Boston and Philadelphia. In 1912, Pruitt returned to China as an adult to become a teacher and principal of Wai Ling School for girls in Chefoo (1912-1918). The Rockefeller Foundation later appointed her chief of the Department of Social Services, Peking Union Medical College (1921-1939). During the Japanese occupation of China in the 1930s, Pruitt and social reformer, Rewi Alley, organized Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (CIC), an international committee that worked to promote Chinese self-sufficiency. She also served as executive secretary (1939-1952) of Indusco, the American fundraising arm for the CIC, and was an author and translator of several books including, A China Childhood (1978) and Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Working Woman (1945). Pruitt died in Philadelphia on July 24, 1985; she was survived by two adopted daughters, Kuei-ching Ho and Tania (Cosman) Wahl.<\/p>\n<p>Her personal archives, including correspondence, diaries, notebooks, published and unpublished writings of her and her family, are now stored in Schlesinger Library of Harvard University. For finding aid, see<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/oasis.lib.harvard.edu\/\/oasis\/deliver\/deepLink?_collection=oasis&amp;uniqueId=sch00076&amp;digital=Y\">http:\/\/oasis.lib.harvard.edu\/\/oasis\/deliver\/deepLink?_collection=oasis&amp;uniqueId=sch00076&amp;digital=Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An online exhibition of Papers of Ida Pruitt and Marjorie King, 1891-1994:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/experimental_archives\/collections\/72157629840700987\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/experimental_archives\/collections\/72157629840700987\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of Ida Pruitt, an American writer, educator, and social worker born in China in 1888. Ida Pruitt lived in Hwanghsien, a village in Shantung Province, until she was twelve and then went on to be educated in the United States. She attended Cox College in College Park, Georgia (1906-1909); received a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yenching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}