Sign up to receive email newsletters about the
latest research for the topic areas that
interest you.
Caretaker of Chinese History
Publication Date: January 2008
Publisher(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Author(s): Richard Sousa; He Lidan
Funder(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Funder(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Series: Hoover Digest
Topic: Culture and religion (Cultural heritage and preservation)
Social conditions (History)
Keywords: Chinese History; Hoover Archives
Type: Report
Coverage: China
Abstract:
In April 2008, Hoover Senior Associate Director Richard Sousa visited Shanghai, where three new books had been published about T. V. Soong, an influential figure in twentieth-century Chinese history. The Hoover Institution has long concentrated on collecting historical documents on China, dating from the Institution’s beginning with acquisitions made by Herbert Hoover, who worked in Tianjin as a young man. In this interview with Xinmin Weekly reporter He Lidan, Sousa discusses the Hoover Institution’s interest in preserving modern Chinese history for scholars.