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Title: Tian Chaoming papers
Dates: 1981-2001
Collection Number: 2012C48
Creator: Tian, Chaoming, 1918-2010.
Collection Size:
5 manuscript boxes
(2.0 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, and photographs, relating to political dissent and advocacy of democracy and human rights in Taiwan.
Includes correspondence with political prisoners and photographs of political demonstrations.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Chinese
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[Identification of item], Tian Chaoming papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2012.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Tian was a Japanese-educated physician known for his efforts in promoting Taiwan's democracy, human rights, and political
independence. An eyewitness to the bloody incident of February 1947, when the Chinese Nationalist government violently suppressed
an antigovernment uprising in Taiwan, as well as to the ensuing martial law of Taiwan under the Chinese Nationalist Party
(KMT), Tian never was at ease with authority. A lone dissident in the face of Kuomintang authoritarian rule in Taiwan, he
became one of the pioneers in the Democratic Progressive Party, the ruling party of Taiwan between 2000 and 2008.
Scope and Content of Collection
Included in the collection are Tian's manuscripts, his correspondence with political prisoners, and more than three hundred
photographs documenting anti-Kuomintang political movements in the 1980s and the 1990s.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Taiwan--Politics and government.
Civil rights--Taiwan.
Dissenters--Taiwan.
Taiwan--Pictorial works.