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China & Greater Asia Collections

Overview

The rare publications and archival materials assembled by government officials, diplomats, military personnel, businessmen, missionaries, journalists, scholars, and private individuals chronicle social, economic, and political conditions in Asian countries. While maintaining the library and archives’ strength in documenting Asia’s transformations in the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries, our collecting efforts also focus on contemporary affairs. 

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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 political science ...

ADDITIONAL GUIDES

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.

Nahm, Andrew C. Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1894–1910: A Checklist of Japanese Archives in the Hoover Institution. Stanford University, Calif.: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, 1959.

Widor, Claude. The Samizdat Press in China's Provinces, 1979–1981: An Annotated Guide. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1987.

Wu, Eugene. Lea​ders 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.

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Nationalist Chinese pilots receiving training in Arizona, ca. 1953.
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Hoover Acquires Papers of Tang Hon Cheung

This collection, an epitome of Chinese immigration to the United States, features rarely seen photos documenting the Tang family and Nationalist Chinese pilots who received training in Arizona, along with family correspondence and historical papers.

February 12, 2025
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Makiki Japanese Language School
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Hoover Acquires the Hawaii Hochi Collection

Leading newspaper of the Japanese Hawaiian community donates materials to Hoover amid closing, enhancing the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection, the world’s largest online archive of open-access, full image Japanese diaspora newspapers.

December 19, 2024
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Generic image of archival storage boxes
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Hoover Acquires New Stanley Karnow Materials

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired an increment to the papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist Stanley Karnow. The new materials include research and interview notes, manuscript drafts, dispatches, and audiovisual materials relating to China, Vietnam and the Philippines, and also to Asian American communities.

November 13, 2024
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Reflections video series
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Reflections: A New Video Series By The Hoover Institution

A new monthly video series by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives highlights important historical objects and collections paired with reflections by Hoover’s expert curators, fellows, and other scholars.

October 08, 2024
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Fragment from an investigative map detailing local conditions in the Zhuhai and Macao area
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Hoover Acquires Materials Documenting The Forgotten Stories Of The Great Escape From Southern China To Hong Kong And Macao

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired the personal collection of Tan Jialo, which contains historical artifacts bearing witness to the great exodus of the late 1960s and the early 1970s.

October 08, 2024
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2024 Workshop on Modern China and Taiwan speakers (left to right): Hsiao-ting Lin, Wu Yidi, Chen Weitseng, Eric Wakin, Joseph Ho, Li Yujie, and Jeremy Taylor, July 2024
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Hoover Institution Hosts 2024 Annual Summer Workshop On Modern China And Taiwan

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.

August 05, 2024
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TV Soong greets Herbert Hoover at the Nanking airport, May 1946
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More Historical Materials On T. V. Soong Come To Hoover

A recently acquired increment has been added to the T. V. Soong papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

July 25, 2024
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Photo of Deng Yanda and Mao Zedong at the third plenary session of the KMT Second Central Committee, March 1926
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Research Materials On KMT Left-Wing Radicalism Come To Hoover

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.

May 28, 2024
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Photograph of Kuo Pin serving as Chiang Kai-shek’s security aide, circa 1945
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Hoover Acquires Personal Manuscript By Kuo Pin, An Insider Of The Nationalist Chinese Secret Service

A personal manuscript by Kuo Pin, an Insider of the Nationalist Chinese Secret Service, has been acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

April 15, 2024
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