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Communist Chinese political movement collection
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Title: Communist Chinese political movement collection
Date (bulk): 1951-1980
Collection Number: 2014C24
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Chinese
Physical Description:
28 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 2 oversize folders
(15.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoirs, investigation records, and judicial testimony and decrees relating to political dissidence and to prosecutions for
political offenses in China.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Boxes FH1, FH10, and FH18 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for
research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material
in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2014.
[Identification of item], Communist Chinese political movement collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution
Library & Archives
The collection contains biographies, memoirs, investigation records, confessions, and judicial testimony and decrees, relating
to political dissidence and to prosecutions for political offenses in China from the 1950s to the 1970s, collected from various
sources in China. It also features internal party documents from key political campaigns and individual case files and dossiers
from the early 1950s to the final years of the Mao era.
Although the collection is called the Communist Chinese Political Movement Collection, the word yundong (movement), which
once occupied a prominent place in the political lexicon of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has become archaic in the twenty-first
century. Yet the the various movements launched by the CCP served the purposes of maintaining its political legitimacy and
the sense that Chinese society was moving toward a brighter future. With every political movement launched at various stages
of its rule after 1949, the CCP experienced significant transformation, along with the landscape of Chinese politics, culture,
and society.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Political crimes and offenses -- China
Dissenters -- China