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    <unittitle>Helen Qubain collection</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname rules="dacs" source="local">Qubain, Helen</persname>
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    <unitid>WLU.Coll.0521</unitid>
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    <physdesc altrender="whole">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">2 Linear Feet</extent>
    </physdesc>
    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" certainty="approximate" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1988/1992" type="inclusive">1988-1992</unitdate>
    <langmaterial>
      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
      <language langcode="chi">Chinese</language>
    </langmaterial>
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<p>Ths collection is currently unprocessed. Please see Special Collections staff for more information.</p>  </processinfo>
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    <head>Scope and Contents</head>
<p>This collection consists of photographs, documents, ephemera, published material, protest related artifacts and personal reminiscences of American citizen and Byrn Mwar College student Helen Qubain's personal experience as an exchange student at Nankai University in Tianjin, China and as witness and participant in the Tienanmen Square student protests of 1989.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname source="naf">Beijing (China)</geogname>
    <genreform>Photographs</genreform>
    <corpname rules="dacs" source="local">Nan kai da xue (Tianjin, China)</corpname>
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