Sha Fei China Military 2

China

Overview

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.

Featured Collections

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

Hsiao-ting Lin Hoover Headshot

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.

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.

Explore

Date (field_news_date)
.
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
News/Press
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
.
TV Soong greets Herbert Hoover at the Nanking airport, May 1946
News/Press
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
.
Photo of Deng Yanda and Mao Zedong at the third plenary session of the KMT Second Central Committee, March 1926
News/Press
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
.
Photograph of Kuo Pin serving as Chiang Kai-shek’s security aide, circa 1945
News/Press
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
.
Wang Guoxiang in his office at the People’s Bank of China, ca. 1987
News/Press
Hoover Acquires Personal Collection Of Wang Guoxiang

The personal collection of Wang Guoxiang, a renowned intellectual in contemporary China, have been acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives and include oral histories, photographs, and various writings from throughout the last one hundred years.

March 15, 2024
.
Xu Wenli with President Carter and their wives
News/Press
Hoover Acquires Personal Papers Of Xu Wenli

The personal papers of prominent Chinese political activist and dissident Xu Wenli have been acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

January 30, 2024
.
Sepia tone photograph of H. H. Kung seated at desk, 1930s
News/Press
Open For Research—The H. H. Kung Papers Now Available Digitally

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.

December 14, 2023
.
color photo of A stock certificate issued in 1940 by the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Corporation.
News/Press
Rarely Seen Chinese And Russian Financial Bonds And Bank Notes Come To The Hoover Archives

Stanford alumnus Richard P. Henke graciously donates historical Chinese, Japanese, and Russian financial documents to the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

December 01, 2023
.
Black and white photo of inauguration. Sha Fei papers.
News/Press
Hoover Institution Acquires Unique Photographic Materials Detailing Communist Chinese Activities In North China During World War II

September 28, 2023
overlay image