,Caretaker of Chinese History

Caretaker of Chinese History


 

Publication Date: January 2008

Publisher: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace

Author(s): Richard Sousa; He Lidan

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

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 The Hoover Institution has long concentrated on collecting historical documents on China, dating from the Institution’s beginning with acquisitions made by Herbert Hoover, who worked in Tianjin as a young man.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.