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A considerable portion of the Taiwan collections are from the Chinese Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), and KMT officials active between the 1970s and 2000s, when democratization and economic development policies were shaped. Also available are campaign materials of the Democratic Progressive Party, in power from 2000 to 2008, and English-language materials by and about Westerners and foreign entities who engaged with Taiwan around VJ Day.
Chinese military and political leader and former head of state of the Republic of China
Party records of the KMT [Kuomintang]
Human rights activist and opponent of Chiang Kai-shek and KMT rule in post-1949 Taiwan
Lieutenant general, Republic of China army; director, General Political Warfare Department, 1975–83
Colonel, Republic of China army; aide-de-camp to General Oskar Munzel; military adviser to Chiang Kai-shek
Taiwanese political activist
Governor of Taiwan, 1962–69, and minister of defense, 1969–72
US diplomat
Admiral, US Navy; unofficial adviser to Chiang Kai-shek, 1950–51
US geographer and author, Farm-plot dispersal, Lu-liao Village, Taiwan
Writer and diplomat
Secretary to Chiang Kai-shek, 1926–49
Photographs and postcards of Taiwan, 1868–1949
US-Taiwan development agency, 1964–72
Miscellaneous materials
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 ...
The Struggle across the Taiwan Strait: The Divided China Problem
by Ramon H. Myers and Jialin Zhang
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.
Duignan, Peter, ed. The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1985.
Palm, Charles, and Dale Reed. Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1980.
In January, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives participated in the opening ceremony dedication of Taiwan’s Chiang Ching-kuo Presential Library and co-curated an exhibition that includes excerpts from Chiang’s diaries.
Zhou Shilin (Chow Shih-lin), founder of the Taiwanese Air Force “Thunder Tigers” was among the first Nationalist Chinese cadets to be selected and sent to the United States to receive special training in a program developed to revitalize China’s war effort as a deterrent to Japanese aggression.
On September 13, 2021, a memorandum of understanding on academic collaboration was signed between the Hoover Institution Library & Archives and the Academia Historica of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
The Chao papers include more than sixty volumes of personal diaries, ranging from the late 1940s to the early 2010s, photo images of Chao’s political and diplomatic activities, news clippings, and other miscellaneous materials dating back as early as the 1930s.
The Hoover Institution Archives has acquired the personal papers of Hou Chia-chu (1928–2007), a renowned economist who is best known for his contributions to the studies of economic theory, economic history, and economic thoughts on premodern and modern China, as well as his participation in policy formulation for Taiwan’s economic development from the 1970s to the late 1990s.
The Hoover Library & Archives hosted a special event on December 17, 2019, to discuss the life and legacy of Chiang Ching-kuo and to announce the opening of his diaries at Hoover in February 2020. Chiang Ching-kuo was the son of Chiang Kai-shek and his political heir as leader of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
The Hoover Institution, the Academia Historica of Taiwan, Ms. Yo-mei Chiang and the family of Mr. Hsiao-yen Chiang are pleased to announce that Hoover is making available for scholars copies of the personal diaries (covering the period 1937 to 1979) of Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China between 1978 and 1988.
In April 1979, president Jimmy Carter signed the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) after the breaking of diplomatic relations between the United States and Taiwan. The act allows for a special authority created specifically for Taiwan known as the American Institute in Taiwan to serve as a de facto embassy, and provides for Taiwan to be recognized under...
As part of his visit to the Stanford campus, former president of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou (second from left) visited the Hoover Institution Library and Archives on April 11, 2018, where he was shown items related to the history of modern China and Taiwan.
