East Asia

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Cultural Revolution poster. Poster collection Hoover Institution Archives

Japanese poster, 1930-1945? Poster collection Hoover Institution Archives

Poster commemorating the founding of the Republic of China, 1911. Poster collection Hoover Institution Archives

A Taiwan journal advocating democracy in Taiwan during the period of Martial Law (February 1984).

"Give Taiwan a chance," the Democratic People's Party (DPP) 1995- 1996 election campaign principles.

Poster celebrating village life in Guongdong Province, China. Poster collection Hoover Institution Archives

Household registration document, Japanese colonial period.

Chinese poster, 1953. Poster collection Hoover Institution Archives

Xie Chi, an early national revolutionary leader of the Republican period (1911-1949).

Original contract for the sale of rice paddy. James Hayes papers Hoover Institution Archives

Map showing stages of military confrontation between Communist and Nationalist troops, 1939-1941.

Photograph of Japan's assault on Shanghai in the early days of the Japanese invasion of China, circa fall of 1937.

Original map showing distribution of Japanese military forces in Korea, November 10, 1906. Araki Sadao collection Japanese modern history manuscript collection Hoover Institution Archives

Journals of local assembly meetings in Nagano Prefecture, Meiji Period.

Investigation report of Korean tenant customs authorized by Governor-General Terauchi Masatake.

Survey of seized assets by Japan during Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.

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.

Curator(s)
Ramon H. Myers