Last week Mr. Moses Li, Stanford alumnus, CEO and President of the CUA (Holding) USA LLC, CUA (Holding) HKG, Ltd., the Sino-America Medical Foundation, and Moses Li Medical Education Foundation, donated the first volumes of a full forthcoming series of the Transcript of the Collection of President Chiang Kai-shek: Chronological Events to Hoover Library & Archives. The transcript donated by Mr. Li supplements the Chiang Kai-shek diaries held at Hoover, which form the most frequently consulted collection in the Archives.

This March Hsiao-ting Lin, Hoover fellow and curator of East Asia Collections at the Library & Archives, will release his book Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan, the product of years of research in Hoover Archives. Published by Harvard University Press, Lin’s book draws from sixteen collections at Hoover related to the history of Taiwan and US operations in East Asia.

Hoover Archives has acquired the papers of Rudolf Freiherr Kaschnitz von Weinberg, an Austro-Hunagrian naval officer during World War I. The collection includes certificates, naval records, printed matter, photographs, paintings, and medals and memorabilia relating to Austro-Hungarian submarine operations during the war.

On February 11^th scholar Tess Johnston, author of fifteen volumes on the history of Shanghai, delivered a talk about the city’s immigration waves in the early to mid-twentieth century as part of Hoover L&A’s History and Policy Lecture Series. Johnston is donating her archive to Hoover Library & Archives. Her archive consists of the extensive library and collection of historical documents that have informed her long career as a diplomat and the author of 25 books.