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Taiwan Collections

Overview

A considerable portion of the Taiwan collections are from the Chinese Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), and KMT officials active between the 1970s and 2000s, when democratization and economic development policies were shaped. Also available are campaign materials of the Democratic Progressive Party, in power from 2000 to 2008, and English-language materials by and about Westerners and foreign entities who engaged with Taiwan around VJ Day. 

Chiang Kai-shek Diaries 蔣介石日記

Chinese military and political leader and former head of state of the Republic of China 

Zhongguo Guo Min Dang Records 中國國民黨

Party records of the KMT [Kuomintang]

Lei Zhen Papers 雷震

Human rights activist and opponent of Chiang Kai-shek and KMT rule in post-1949 Taiwan

Wang Sheng Papers 王昇

Lieutenant general, Republic of China army; director, General Political Warfare Department, 1975–83

Wang Yue–che Papers 王玉麒

Colonel, Republic of China army; aide-de-camp to General Oskar Munzel; military adviser to Chiang Kai-shek 

Tian Chaoming Papers田朝明

Taiwanese political activist

Huang Jie Diaries黃杰日記

Governor of Taiwan, 1962–69, and minister of defense, 1969–72

Charles Maynard Cooke Papers

Admiral, US Navy; unofficial adviser to Chiang Kai-shek, 1950–51

Paul Vander Meer Papers

US geographer and author, Farm-plot dispersal, Lu-liao Village, Taiwan

Shen Keqin Papers沈克勤

Writer and diplomat

Taiwanese Pictorial Collection

Photographs and postcards of Taiwan, 1868­–1949

Taiwanese Subject Collection

Miscellaneous materials

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.

Duignan, Peter, ed. The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1985.

Palm, Charles, and Dale Reed. Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1980.

Explore

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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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Exhibit of Chiang Ching-kuo diaries on a table with black tablecloth
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Diaries Of Chiang Kai-Shek And Chiang Ching-Kuo Return To Taiwan, Copies Remain At The Hoover Institution Library & Archives

After almost two decades on deposit for scholarly research at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, the handwritten diaries of the Republic of China (Taiwan)’s former president Chiang Kai-shek (1887—1975) and his son and successor Chiang Ching-kuo (1910—1988) returned to Taiwan this week.

September 15, 2023
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Modern China and Taiwan Workshop 2023 speakers stand in front of Hoover Tower and HHMB
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Hoover Institution Hosts The 2023 Annual Summer Workshop On Modern China And Taiwan

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives hosted the 2023 Workshop on Modern China and Taiwan. Workshop participants explored Hoover’s unique archival collections and presented their findings to the Hoover and Stanford research community and a broad audience.  

August 07, 2023
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Eric Wakin looking into the cockpit of a plane on display in the American Footprint Museum
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives Reconnects With Taiwan in The Post-Pandemic Era

Hoover Institution Library & Archives Director Eric Wakin and Curator of Modern China and Taiwan Hsiao-ting Lin visited Taiwan at the invitation of a number of institutions and organizations on the island state.

May 15, 2023
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Two men wearing suits shaking hands
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Hoover Archives Acquires New Historical Materials Evidencing Taiwan’s Bumpy Process toward Democratization

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired the papers of Thomas B. Gold, a retired professor from the University of California–Berkeley reputed for his research into Taiwan.

January 13, 2023
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Photo of speakers from 2022 China & Taiwan workshop
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Workshop on Modern China and Taiwan returns to the Hoover Institution

The Hoover Institution Workshop on Modern China and Taiwan returned August 1 through August 5, 2022 and welcomed participants from the Stanford campus as well as from all over the world to discuss multiple subjects.

August 08, 2022
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