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The H. H. Kung 孔祥熙 Digitization Project

Digitizing the entire H. H. Kung 孔祥熙  papers (50.37 linear feet) housed at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Digital Stories

Learn about H. H. Kung and the digitization project via these engaging digital stories.

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The H. H. Kung Papers Digitization Project Introduction

Discover the archival story to preserve, digitize, and make available to researchers the H. H. Kung 孔祥熙 papers which arrived at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in a fragile state and suffering mold damage.

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H. H. Kung: A Life In Pictures

Learn who H. H. Kung 孔祥熙 was and the important role he played in the history of modern China through a richly illustrated biography based on his papers and other available photographs and film clips.

Search the H. H. Kung Papers
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Digital Collections 2

View the entire H. H. Kung papers digitally via our newest digital collections site.

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OAC Finding Aid

Explore the H. H. Kung papers traditionally via the finding aid which has its contents linked to digital records for easy viewing.

News & Events
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Open For Research—The H. H. Kung Papers Now Available Digitally

December 14, 2023
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.

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Hsiao-ting Lin

Curator, Modern China & Taiwan Collection / Research Fellow

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 . . .

Thank You to the Project Team

We would like to thank all of the past and present Hoover Institution Library & Archives staff who have made this pioneering digitization project possible.

 

 

  • Amanda Robb
  • Anna Knapp
  • Chris Marino
  • David Sun & the circulation team
  • Doug Emery
  • Emma Stanford
  • Fiore Irving
  • Hsiao-ting Lin
  • K. Sarah Ostrach
  • Kiera Peacock
  • Kurtis Kekkonen
  • Laura Bedford
  • Laurent Cruveillier
  • Lisa Nguyen
  • Marissa Rhee
  • Maryann Villavert
  • Mireya Salinas
  • Rayan Ghazal
  • Samira Bozorgi
  • Sang Shon
  • Sarah Cassone
  • Spencer Zidarich
  • Talia Olshefsky
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