GA-02641 1955-05-23 relevance B public
周恩来、邓颖超与国际民主妇联主席科东夫人谈话 (Conversation between Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao and WIDF President Eugenie Cotton), 1955
Conversation between Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao and WIDF President Eugenie Cotton, 1955
Chinese-language transcript (scan, noisy OCR; English translation read) of a conversation between Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao and Eugenie Cotton, WIDF president, 22/23 May 1955 (Wilson Center Digital Archive). They discuss women's role in peace, the planned World Mothers' Congress in Paris, Franco-German reconciliation and Sino-Japanese friendship, and the WIDF's unity of women across systems. Indonesia and Gerwani are not mentioned; useful context for WIDF-China ties.
Transkrip berbahasa Mandarin (pindaian, OCR berisik; terjemahan Inggris dibaca) percakapan Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao dan Eugenie Cotton, presiden WIDF, 22/23 Mei 1955 (Wilson Center Digital Archive). Membahas peran perempuan dalam perdamaian, rencana Kongres Ibu Sedunia di Paris, rekonsiliasi Prancis-Jerman dan persahabatan Tiongkok-Jepang, serta persatuan perempuan lintas sistem dalam WIDF. Indonesia dan Gerwani tidak disebut; konteks hubungan WIDF-Tiongkok.
“p.6 (trans.): Zhou: 'If international women's organisations unite the majority of women of the world, they will win peace'; Cotton: 'Mothers can do a lot of work.'”
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- 1955-05-23
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- 1955–1959
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- Wilson Center Digital Archive (now digitalarchive.umd.edu; old domain unreachable) · source link
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- 01 Primary Sources/1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records/Wilson Center Digital Archive (1955-1967) - Chinese, Soviet, DPRK and Albanian documents on Indonesia (Wilson Center, UMD)/PRC MFA (1955-05-23) - Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao conversation with Eugenie Cotton, WIDF chair [Wilson-UMD DA original scan].pdf
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- Good (0.938) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: yes
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- 01 Primary Sources › 1.6 US, British and Dutch Government Records › Wilson Center Digital Archive (1955-1967) - Chinese, Soviet, DPRK and Albanian documents on Indonesia (Wilson Center, UMD)
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- full text read; OCR largely unreadable
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