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Hoover’s many Chinese collections document political, economic, and social developments during the revolution of 1911, the warlord period, the civil war, and the post-1949 period. Holdings on pre-1949 Republican China, including Nationalist government documents and Chinese Communist Party materials, are particularly robust. Also available are accounts of non-Chinese public servants, military officers, engineers, journalists, and scholars who shaped or witnessed developments in China.
Chinese military and political leader and former head of state of the Republic of China
Materials regarding Homer Lea, military adviser to Sun Yat-sen and to the revolutionary movement in China
US missionary in China, 1909–15 and 1932–33
Financier and official in the Chinese Nationalist government
Businessman and statesman in the Chinese Nationalist government
Banker and official in the Chinese Nationalist government
Materials relating to Chinese communist activity in the Jiangxi Soviet Republic, 1931–37
Former premier of the Republic of China
US journalist who reported from Yan’an, China, during the 1930s
Commanding officer of the American Volunteer Group in the Chinese Air Force’s “Flying Tigers”
US Army general in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II
US Army commander in the China and Southeast Asia theaters during World War II
US historian, journalist, and author, The Rape of Nanking
Chinese dissident; prisoner, 1960–68
Newspaper issues, pamphlets, broadsides, and flyers issued by Red Guards
Hsiao-ting Lin is a research fellow and curator of the Modern China and Taiwan collection at the Hoover Institution, for which he collects material on China and Taiwan, as well as China-related materials in other East Asian countries. He holds a BA in political science ...
"China's Wartime History and Contemporary East Asia"
Rana Mitter, Professor of History and Politics of Modern China, Oxford University
Century of Change: China 1911-2011
(April 2011-February 2012)
This exhibit commemorated the hundredth anniversary of, and century since, the Chinese revolution of 1911.
"The Modern China Archives and Special Collections"
by Ramon Myers and Tai-chun Kuo
Most of the items described in these guides are now available at the East Asia Library at Stanford University or Stanford Auxiliary Libraries (SAL 1 & 2). Please check Stanford's online libraries catalog for exact locations.
Berton, Peter, and Eugene Wu. Contemporary China: a Research Guide. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, 1967.
Chan, Ming K. Historiography of the Chinese Labor Movements, 1895–1949: A Critical Survey and Bibliography of Selected Chinese Source Materials at the Hoover Institution. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1981.
I-mu. Unofficial Documents of the Democracy Movement in Communist China, 1978–1981: Chung-kuo Min Chu Yun Tung Tzu Liao: A Checklist of Chinese Materials in the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Stanford, Calif.: East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution, 1986.
Israel, John. The Chinese Student Movement, 1927–1937: A Bibliographical Essay Based on the Resources of the Hoover Institution. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, 1959.
Kiyohara, Michiko. China Watching by the Japanese: Reports and Investigations from the First Sino-Japanese War to the Unification of China Under the Communist Party: A Checklist of Holdings In the East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1987.
Mote, Frederick W. Japanese-sponsored Governments in China, 1937–1945: An Annotated Bibliography Compiled from Materials in the Chinese Collection of the Hoover Library. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1954.
Widor, Claude. The Samizdat Press in China's Provinces, 1979–1981: An Annotated Guide. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1987.
Wu, Eugene. Leaders of Twentieth-century China: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Biographical Works in the Hoover Library. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1956.
Wu, Tien-wei. The Kiangsi Soviet Republic, 1931–1934: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography of the Chen Cheng Collection. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University, 1981.
Xue, Jundu. The Chinese Communist Movement, 1921–1937: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Materials in the Chinese Collection of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Palo Alto: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, 1960.
The 2024 workshop featured five speakers from the US, Britain, and Singapore who explored Hoover’s unique archival collections and examined how these historical treasures help reinterpret our understanding of modern China and post-1949 Taiwan.
A recently acquired increment has been added to the T. V. Soong papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Newly acquired are the personal papers of J. Kenneth Olenik—a retired historian and expert on Deng Yanda, a well-known leftist in the Chinese Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT)—adding to Hoover’s rich archival holdings on Nationalist China.
A personal manuscript by Kuo Pin, an Insider of the Nationalist Chinese Secret Service, has been acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The personal collection of Wang Guoxiang, a renowned intellectual in contemporary China, have been acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives and include oral histories, photographs, and various writings from throughout the last one hundred years.
The personal papers of prominent Chinese political activist and dissident Xu Wenli have been acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Newly digitized, the papers of H. H. Kung, a Chinese political leader and confidante of Chiang Kai–shek, are fully accessible for the first time via the Library & Archives Digital Collections.
Stanford alumnus Richard P. Henke graciously donates historical Chinese, Japanese, and Russian financial documents to the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
