T.V. Soong in Modern Chinese History
By Tai-Chun Kuo and Hsiao-ting Lin

1. Executive Summary
2. Essay (pdf)

In April 2004, the Hoover Institution opened nineteen boxes of the restricted personal papers of T. V. Soong, a leading official in the nationalist government from the late 1920s to 1949, along with two thousand documents donated by the Soong family. At the same time the Hoover Institution and the Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party, agreed to preserve those records and make them available for researchers. In late 2005 Chiang Kai-shek’s family placed his diaries and those of Chiang Ching-kuo in the Hoover Archives.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | ESSAY (pdf) |