"China's Wartime History and Contemporary East Asia"
Rana Mitter, Professor of History and Politics of Modern China, Oxford University
China
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.
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CHIANG KAI-SHEK DIARIES 蔣介石日記
Chinese military and political leader and former head of state of the Republic of China
Joshua B. Powers Collection
Materials regarding Homer Lea, military adviser to Sun Yat-sen and to the revolutionary movement in China
Francis E Stafford Photographs
US missionary in China, 1909–15 and 1932–33
T. V. Soong Papers 宋子文
Financier and official in the Chinese Nationalist government
H. H. Kung Papers 孔祥熙
Businessman and statesman in the Chinese Nationalist government
Chang Kia-Ngau Papers 张嘉璈
Banker and official in the Chinese Nationalist government
Chen Cheng collection 陳誠
Materials relating to Chinese communist activity in the Jiangxi Soviet Republic, 1931–37
Yen Hui Ch’ing Typescript: An Autobiography 顏惠慶
Former premier of the Republic of China
Nym Wales (Helen Foster Snow) Papers
US journalist who reported from Yan’an, China, during the 1930s
Claire Lee Chennault Papers
Commanding officer of the American Volunteer Group in the Chinese Air Force’s “Flying Tigers”
Joseph Warren Stilwell Papers
US Army general in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II
Albert C. Wedemeyer Papers
US Army commander in the China and Southeast Asia theaters during World War II
Iris Chang Papers
US historian, journalist, and author, The Rape of Nanking
Lin Zhao Papers 林昭
Chinese dissident; prisoner, 1960–68
Chinese Cultural Revolution Collection
Newspaper issues, pamphlets, broadsides, and flyers issued by Red Guards
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China Archival Collections China Library Materials
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.
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