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COLLECTIONS East Asia
Collection Highlights:
Curator(s) Introduction
The collection consists of archival and special materials in the Chinese and Japanese languages acquired by the Hoover Institution in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Collections of special materials include rare books, newspapers, banned, illegal, or rare periodicals, political party internal documents, and government (state and local) internal documents. Archival materials include private papers donated by former public servants, military personnel, and others from Japan, China, and Taiwan, and other parts of Asia. Description
I. Chinese Materials of the Taiwan and Mainland China Archives and Collections of Special Materials In the first half of the twentieth century Taiwan was a colony of imperial Japan (1895-1945). Mainland China, in contrast, experienced foreign imperialism, revolution, warlord conflicts, wars with Japan, and a civil war. In the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first century, Taiwan modernized and democratized. Meanwhile, on the mainland the Chinese Communist Party tried to establish a collectivized urban and rural order while also industrializing the country. Not until 1979 did the party change course and begin to build a market economy governed by a new socialist political system but still dominated by the Communist Party. Taiwan's historical experience, first under Japanese colonial rule and later under the Nationalist government's Guomindang, produced a very different Chinese society than that which evolved on the mainland. In the 1950s Taiwan began to depend more on ideas and knowledge from the Western world, evidenced by its rapid economic development and structural change, gradual democratization and the urbanization of society, and the rise of Taiwan nationalism. Mainland China, by contrast, continued to retain much of its Chinese heritage while experimenting with a highly centralized political system, a planned economy, and various collective forms of life for rural and urban people. In 1979 the Communist Party leadership began opening up the country so as to build a socialist-market economy. Thus, two different types of regimes and societies evolved across the Taiwan Strait after 1950. Taiwan's ruling party, the Guomindang, created a capitalist market economy and gradually expanded its limited democracy. Thus, by 2000 a new political party had arisen that promised to deepen Taiwan's democracy, preserve its sovereignty and independence, and promote a Taiwanese ethnic identity. The People's Republic of China's Communist Party, meanwhile, has been trying to revitalize its leadership and broaden its membership in an effort to modernize China's economy and society as well as play a new role in the Asian-Pacific region and the world. The following collections of special materials, along with private papers containing Chinese documentation, illustrate how divided China has evolved since 1949. They also depict important events and provide an understanding of the social, political, economic, and cultural-ideological changes that have occurred in the two societies, as each society experienced events and interacted with the world in very different ways. A. The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1977
B. Agriculture, Economics, Education, and Politics in Guongdong Province and Counties (1956-1977)
C. Land, House, Company, and Household Registration Records of Zhutang Village, Taiwan
D. Twenty-five Maps Published by the Chinese Communist Party before 1949
F. Internal (Neibu) Publications Not to Be Distributed Abroad
G. Xie Chi Collection
H. Chinese Student Movement in Hunan Province, 1980-1982
I. Telegrams and Letters regarding the February 28, 1947, Incident in Taiwan: 99 items J. James Hayes Collection of Land Deeds from the Late 19th to the 20th Century K. Red Guards Publications: The Janek Rowinski Collection (documents gathered by a Polish diplomat during the Cultural Revolution) L. Tiananmen Square Publications prior to and on June 4, 1989, by Students of Several Major Universities Who Had Gathered at Tiananmen Square M. Economic Development in Taiwan during the late 1940s and 1950s as Recorded by Former Officials of the Republic of China Who Served in the Government in Those Years N. Guomindang Central Reform Committee Minutes for 86 Meetings Held between August 1950 and September 1951 in Taipei, Taiwan O. Rare monographs, Photographs, and Political Journals for China, 1911-1949, and Taiwan, 1945-2000 II. Japanese Language Materials in the East Asian Archives and Collections of Special Materials A. Japanese Modern History
III. Chinese Documents Contained in Personal Papers and Records Donated to the Hoover Archives: 49 Collections Representing Individuals and Organizations IV. Archives Containing Personal Papers regarding Taiwan in Hoover Archives Access Information University online public access catalog Socrates contains information on books and serials in the Library, and descriptive overviews of all collections in the Archives. Socrates searches can be limited to the Hoover Institution Archives or Hoover Institution Library. Finding aids are also available for more than one thousand of the five thousand collections in the Archives via the Online Archive of California and in the Archives reading room. Photocopies of finding aids, subject lists, and new accession lists can be purchased by mail from the Carol Leadenham.
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