Register of the Chang Kia-ngau papers

Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff, revised by Yichen Jin

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Title: Chang Kia-ngau papers

Date (inclusive): 1856-1981

Collection Number: 74058

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: In Chinese, Japanese, English, and Russian

Physical Description: 26 manuscript boxes, 6 oversize boxes, 1 card file box, 1 envelope, 4 panels of calligraphy, 5 oversize folders (31.4 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Diaries, letters, writings, reports, financial records, instructions, statistics, and printed matter relating to financial and economic conditions in China, economic conditions in Manchuria at the end of World War II, Chinese-Soviet negotiations for the return of Manchuria to Chinese control, and daily commodity prices of Chinese products, 1950-1957. Includes some materials collected from Japanese organizations, calligraphy by Liang Qichao, and letters by Chiang Kai-shek. Part of collection also available on microfilm (11 reels).

Creator: Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975

Creator: Chang, Kia-ngau, 1889-1979

Creator: Liang, Qichao, 1873-1929

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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.

Use

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1978.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Chang Kia-ngau papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1888	Born, outside of Shanghai, China
1910	Editor-in-chief of the Official Gazette published by the Ministry of Communications
1913	Began his banking career as assistant manager of the Bank of China in Shanghai
1913-1935	Contributed to the development of modern practices in private banking in China, fending off government control of the Bank of China
1935	Minister of Railways
1935-1943	During the Sino-Japanese war, served as Minister of Communications, accompanying the central government from Nanking to Chungking
1935-1943	Minister of Transportation
1947-1948	Held various other positions of importance in the Chinese Nationalist Government
	President, Central Bank, China
1979	Died

Scope and Content of Collection

Diaries, letters, writings, reports, financial records, instructions, statistics, and printed matter relating to financial and economic conditions in China, economic conditions in Manchuria at the end of World War II, Chinese-Soviet negotiations for the return of Manchuria to Chinese control, and daily commodity prices of Chinese products, 1950-1957. Includes some materials collected from Japanese organizations, calligraphy by Liang Qichao, and letters by Chiang Kai-shek. Part of collection also available on microfilm (11 reels).

Related Materials

Last Chance in Manchuria: The Diary of Chang Kia-ngau, edited by Donald G. Gillin and Ramon H. Myers, translated by Dolores Zen. Hoover Institution Press, 1989.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Manchuria (China) -- Economic conditions

Finance, Public -- China

China -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union

Manchuria (China) -- History -- 1945-

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- China

China -- Economic conditions

Prices -- China

Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- China -- Manchuria

Diaries 1856-1981

Scope and Contents note

Includes diaries documenting the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

box 28, folder 1-5

Ping Shou Chai diary 1856-1864

box 15, folder 20

1935 June-November

box 15, folder 21

1937 February-June

box 15, folder 22

1937 June-September

box 15, folder 23

1937 September-December

box 15, folder 24

1938 May-October

box 15, folder 25

1938 October - 1939 May

box 12, folder 1-2

Dong Bei Jie Shou Jiao She Ri Ji (Diary of Taking Over Northeastern China) 1945-1946

box 16

Diaries and small memorandums 1963-1981

Scope and Contents note

One diary is from 1940; unclear if actually used in that year. There is also a photo inside it of an unidentified woman.

Biographical File 1934-1979, undated

box 27, folder 14

Chiang Shih-hsun estate records 1934

box 27, folder 3

Photographs of China Merchandise Committee 1936

box 27, folder 18

Personnel records 1945

box 27, folder 15

Newspaper clippings about Chang Kia-Ngau 1945-1969

box 21, folder 15

Chen Kuang-Pu biographical materials 1955

box 21, folder 2

Last will and testament 1979

box 21, folder 3

Autobiography undated

box 17

Business cards undated

box 21, folder 1

Fortune telling materials undated

box 15, folder 19

Name and address clippings undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes notes.

Correspondence 1942-1976, undated

box 33, folder 2

Letter of appointment by Chiang Kai-shek 1942 1945

box 27, folder 9

Miscellaneous correspondence 1949-1976

Scope and Contents note

Contains envelope for Chang Chinn-mau letter regarding conditions after World War II, and the decisions of Chiang Kai-shek, but letter itself is not included.

box 23, folder 7

Telegrams 1950-1951

box 21, folder 6

Chen Kuang-Pu correspondence 1957, 1961-1962

box 21, folder 16

Chen Kuang-Pu correspondence 1964

box 27, folder 1

Travel records and correspondence circa 1962-1963

box 27, folder 2

Chiang Ching-kuo, Kung Ling-kan, Li Kuo-ting, and Yen Chia-kan correspondence undated

box 27, folder 13

Chiang Kai-shek correspondence undated

Scope and Contents note

Photocopy

box 27, folder 7

Chou, Tsao-min introduction materials undated

box 23, folder 8

Correspondence and memoranda of meetings with Tian-Yi Xiong undated

box 12, folder 3

Personal instructions from Chiang Kai-shek

box 27, folder 12

Sen Bai correspondence regarding Communist party affairs undated

Speeches and Writings 1964-1968, undated

Scope and Contents note

See also: Reports and Financial Records and Shanghai Commercial Bank Documents.

box 27, folder 8

"Studies on the Economic History of Modern China," publishing materials 1964

box 27, folder 5

"Devaluation of U.S. Dollar and Britain's Currency" speech 1968

box 23, folder 1-2

Chen Kuang-Pu biography drafts undated

box 24, folder 5-7

Chen Kuang-Pu biography, edited draft undated

box 21, folder 14

Chen Kuang-Pu Xian Sheng Zhuan Ji Gao (drafts for Chen Kuang-Pu's biography) undated

box 21, folder 9

Draft chapters 9-11 of a book about bank management undated

box 27, folder 21

Epitaph of Zhang Jun Run undated

box 22, folder 2

Hai Guang Wen Xuan (Selected Works of Hai Guang) undated

box 21, folder 8

Incomplete draft on rehabilitation after the Anti-Japanese war undated

box 27, folder 17

Miscellaneous study notes undated

box 24, folder 8

Notebook of economic research undated

box 21, folder 12

Zhong Guo Yin Hang Yu Huo Bi Chao Xiang Xian Dai Hua (The Modernization of Chinese Currency and Banking) undated

Reports and Financial Records 1876-1962, undated

Scope and Contents note