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.
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
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Many of our numerous Hong Kong collections concentrate on the social, political, and economic conditions of the Pearl River Delta region from 1841 to 1997. Others concern negotiations and plans for the transfer of the colony from administration by the British to Chinese sovereignty.
JAMES HAYES PAPERS - British civil servant; deputy commissioner of labor, Hong Kong
MARK ROBERTI COLLECTION - Author, The Fall of Hong Kong: China's Triumph and Britain's Betrayal
SANFORD S. MARLOWE PAPERS - US consul, Hong Kong, 1967–71
BARBARA E. WARD PAPERS - British social anthropologist
HONG KONG SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials
HONG KONG UMBRELLA REVOLUTION COLLECTION - Flyers, leaflets, other printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia relating to civil disobedience movements in Hong Kong in 2014.
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Our many Japan and Japanese Diaspora collections focus on social, political, and economic change from the Meiji (1868–1911) to post–World War II reconstruction (1945–52) periods in Japan and overseas Japanese communities. Major topics of the Japan collection include the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95; pre–World War II domestic affairs; Japanese-sponsored governments in China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia; the post–World War II Allied occupation, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the US-Japan Security Treaty. Records of the Japanese Communist Party and proceedings of the Imperial Diet, 1890–1946, are available. The Japanese Diaspora collection includes the HOJI SHINBUN DIGITAL COLLECTION, the world’s largest open-access full-image digital collection of Japanese newspapers published in North America.
KŌSHIKAN RECORDS - Japanese legation in Korea, 1894–1910
JAPANESE MODERN HISTORY MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials collection by the Hoover Institution East Asia Library, Tokyo Office
DANIEL K. E. CHING COLLECTION - Materials relating to Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo)
JANE LATHROP STANFORD MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS - Photograph albums of scenes in Japan, presented to Stanford during her 1902 visit
RIKUGUN RECORDS - Japanese imperial army surveys of property seized in China during World War II
MILO E. ROWELL PAPERS - US military lawyer involved in drafting Japanese constitution after World War II
BONNER FRANK FELLERS PAPERS - Brigadier general, US Army; chief, Psychological Warfare Branch, South West Pacific Area, 1943–45
CRAWFORD F. SAMS PAPERS - Chief, public health and welfare section in occupied Japan, 1945–51
SHELDON H. HARRIS PAPERS - US historian and author, Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932–45
HAROLD MELVIN AGNEW MOTION PICTURE FILM - Depicts the explosion of atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
EUGENE H. DOOMAN PAPERS - US counselor of embassy to Japan, 1937–41; assistant secretary of state staff for Far Eastern affairs, 1944–45
JOSEPH C. TRAINOR PAPERS - Supreme commander for the Allied Powers in Japan staff, 1945–51
GEORGE DINSMORE STODDARD MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS - US educator; chairman, United States Education Mission to Japan, 1946
THOMAS RAY BODINE PAPERS - Field Director, National Japanese American Student Relocation Council 1942–45
STANFORD NISEI ALUMNI NEWSLETTER ISSUES - Japanese American activities during World War II, 1944–45; Newsletter of Japanese American alumni of Stanford University
HUBERT G. SCHENCK PAPERS - Supreme commander for the Allied Powers in Japan staff, 1945–51
KARL R. BENDETSEN PAPERS - Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
JOHN B. CORNELL PAPERS - Materials related to Japanese emigrants in Brazil, 1965–68
RONALD S. ANDERSON PAPERS - US secondary school teacher in Japan, 1929–35; United States education officer in Japan, 1946–49
S.I. HAYAKAWA PAPERS - US senator from California, 1977–1983
MASUO KITAJI ANNOTATED AND ILLUSTRATED BIBLES - Masuo Kitaji's Bibles provided through the generosity of the Kitaji Family, 1935/1973
SHIGEMITSU MAMORU SKETCH BOOKS - Depicts scenes at the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1947/1948
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JAPAN LIBRARY & ARCHIVES MATERIALS
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.
Ike, Nobutaka. The Hoover Institution Collection On Japan. Palo Alto, Calif, 1958.
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,: Stanford University Press, 1954.
Nahm, Andrew C. Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1894–1910: A Checklist of Japanese Archives in the Hoover Institution. Stanford University, 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.
Most of the Hoover Archives’ holdings on Mongolia concern the years 1920-1921, when Baron Roman Ungern-Shternberg attempted to use the country as a base from which to combat Bolshevism. The Hoover Library and Archives also holds minutes and protocols of the assemblies of the Mongolian Peoples’ Party and Mongolian People’s Republic in the 1920s and 1930s, reports from an American visitor to Mongolia in the 1930s on political and economic conditions there, as well as issuances of the Mongolian Social Democratic Party from 1990.
SERGEĬ LAVROV HOLOGRAPH: SOBYTIIA V MONGOLIĬ-KHALKHIE, 1920–1921 GODAKH - Major, Russian Imperial Army
N. N. KNIAZEV TYPESCRIPT: THE LEGENDARY BARON - Relates to Baron Roman Ungern-Shternberg
GOLUBEV HISTORY - Relates to White Russian military activities in Mongolia
N. M. RIABUKHIN TYPESCRIPT: THE STORY OF BARON UNGERN-SHTERNBERG - Russian military surgeon
BARON ROMAN FEDOOVICH UNGERN-SHTERNBERG MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS - White Russian military leader
BORIS N. VOLKOV PAPERS - White Russian agent in Mongolia, 1918–20
VELIKIĬ KHURALDAN TYPESCRIPT: NEW MONGOLIA, OR, THE PROTOCOLS OF THE FIRST GREAT ASSEMBLY OF THE MONGOLIAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC - English translation
MONGOL ARDYN KHUV'SGALT NAM CONGRESS TYPESCRIPT : THE THIRD ASSEMBLY OF THE MONGOLIAN PEOPLE'S PARTY - English translation
ROBERT SMITH REPORTS - US visitor to Manchuria and Mongolia
MONGOLYN SOTSIAL-DEMOKRAT NAM ISSUANCES - Mongolian social democratic political party
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More than five hundred publications and collections document social, political, and economic changes in North and South Korea, dating especially from the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 to the Korean War. They include the records of the Japanese legation in Seoul (1894–1910), psychological warfare leaflets distributed by the United Nations during the Korean War, and records of the United States Army Military Government in Korea.
KŌSHIKAN RECORDS - Japanese legation in Korea, 1894–1910
US ARMY FAR EAST COMMAND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE BRANCH LEAFLETS - Propaganda aimed at North Korean and Chinese soldiers during the Korean War. Includes translations.
HAYDON L. BOATNER PAPERS - Commandant, United Nations Prisoner of War Command in Korea, 1952
RADIO PYONGYANG RADIO BROADCAST TRANSCRIPTS - North Korean radio station
MILLARD PRESTON GOODFELLOW PAPERS - US political adviser in Korea, 1946; includes correspondence with Syngman Rhee
KENNETH KANTOR PAPERS - US journalist
KOREA UNDERGROUND REPORT NEWSLETTERS - Compilation on South Korea and Southeast Asia edited by Kilsoo K. Haan
KOREAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Printed matter relating to North and South Korea and to the Korean War
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Publications and archival collections at Hoover document social, political, and economic changes in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal, especially during World War II and the independence and partition of India.
ROBERT D. LICHTY PAPERS - Photographer, US Air Transport Command, India, 1942 –44
EVELYN TRENT PAPERS - US journalist and wife of M. N. Roy, founder of the Communist Party of India.
TERENCE WHITE COLLECTION - Photojournalist and author, A Taste for Hot Steel: Frontline Encounters of a Foreign Correspondent
ALEX INKELES PAPERS - US sociologist
FRANK FARNER PAPERS - Education adviser, World Bank, 1976–89
BOLSHEVIK LENINIST PARTY OF INDIA BULLETIN - Central Committee materials, 1947
DAINIKA ITTEPHĀKA - Newspaper published in Dhaka, Bangladesh
INDIAN SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials
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Our many collections on Southeast Asia document the social, political, and economic changes in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam. Subject strengths include the World War II Burma campaign, the Vietnam War, and the US military presence in the Philippines.
REGISTER OF THE JERRY ALLAN ROSE PAPERS - American journalist and writer, member of the United States Operations Mission to Vietnam
INVENTORY OF THE STANLEY KARNOW PAPERS - American Journalist, Author and Correspondent
INVENTORY OF THE OVERSEAS WEEKLY PHOTOGRAPHS - Alternative newspaper aimed at American servicemen published during the Vietnam War
BBC WORLD SERVICE RADIO BROADCAST RECORDINGS - Sound recordings of radio broadcasts to Vietnam
EDWARD GEARY LANSDALE PAPERS - US OSS officer and special assistant to the US ambassador in South Vietnam, 1965–67
CHARLES T. R. BOHANNAN PAPERS - Lieutenant colonel, US army; Rand consultant; counterguerrilla expert
CHARLES FRANCIS SLOANE PAPERS - Police adviser, United States Operations Mission, Vietnam
PHILIP D. SPROUSE PAPERS - US ambassador to Cambodia, 1962–64
GINETTA SAGAN PAPERS - US human rights activist
WILLIAM JOSEPH SEBALD DIARY EXTRACTS -US ambassador to Burma, 1952–54
FRANK DORN PAPERS - US army brigadier general in China-Burma-India theater
MALAYAN COMMUNIST PARTY PROPAGANDA - Issuances from 1950 to 1951
ALLAN E. GOODMAN PAPERS - Consultant on Vietnamese affairs for Rand and US Department of State
JOHN C. RUSSELL MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS - Chief, Public Administration Division, United States Operations Mission to the Philippines, 1952–55
ALVIN H. SCAFF PAPERS - US sociologist and author, The Philippine Answer to Communism
LEE TELESCO COLLECTION - Materials related to Allied and Japanese intelligence activities in the Philippines during World War II
INDONESIA SPECIAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL RECORDS - Trial materials related to the attempted coup of 1965
HASAN MUHAMMAD TIRO PAPERS - President, National Liberation Front of Aceh Sumatra
GUY J. PAUKER PAPERS - US political scientist and author, Indonesian Images of Their National Self
WILLIAM FREDERICK HALSEY PROCLAMATIONS - Relates to Allied occupation of Dutch Timor and Portuguese Timor
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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
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
GEORGE H. KERR PAPERS - US diplomat
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
CHEN LIFU TYPESCRIPT: THE STORM CLOUDS CLEAR OVER CHINA陳立夫 - Secretary to Chiang Kai-shek, 1926–49
TAIWANESE PICTORIAL COLLECTION - Photographs and postcards of Taiwan, 1868–1949
JOINT COMMISSION ON RURAL RECONSTRUCTION MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS - US-Taiwan development agency, 1964–72
TAIWANESE SUBJECT COLLECTION - Miscellaneous materials
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