Chinese Collection

Hoover Archives Holdings on China

The Hoover Institution Archives contain well over 250 collections of papers, photographs, posters, diaries, motion pictures, sound recordings, and artifacts relevant to China. These collections, assembled by a wide variety of ranking Chinese and foreign government officials, diplomats, military personnel, businessmen, missionaries, journalists, scholars, and private individuals, are an invaluable source of information on twentieth-century China's social, economic, political, and military conditions and events.

• American agricultural economist John Lossing Buck
• Bank of China president Chang Chia-ao (Chang Kia-ngau)
  
• Army general Claire Chennault
• Lauchlin Currie, assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, 1939–1945
• Stanley Hornbeck, U.S. diplomat, 1928–1947, on U.S. relations with Far East
• Chinese official Huang Fu, 1920–1936
• consular official Jay Huston, 1917–1931
• Father Vincent Lebbe, Belgian missionary in China
• political scientist Paul M. A. Linebarger
• Paul M. W. Linebarger, an American legal adviser to Sun Yat-sen
• Frederick Nossal on political and other conditions in China and other Asian nations
• Vladimir Pastuhov on the 1931 Manchurian Incident
• Joshua B. Powers on the Chinese revolutionary movement, ca. 1900–1920
• James Rabbitt on Chinese economic and technological development, particularly in mining and metallurgy
• Charles Remer on Asian political and economic development, particularly in China
• David Rowe on Chinese history and foreign relations
• ROC official T. V. Soong
• General Joseph Stilwell
• civil engineer and relief-agency adviser Oliver Todd
• Prof. Payson Treat on Asian diplomatic history
• the China Office of the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
• Nym Wales (Helen Foster Snow) on political, economic, and social conditions in China
• General Albert Wedemeyer
• Admiral Charles Whiting on the U.S. Navy in China
• General Robert Williams on the U.S. Army Medical Corps in China
• Chinese official Yen Hui-ch'ing

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