Wei Daming was a cryptographer and a general in the Chinese Nationalist Revolutionary Army. Collection includes manuscripts written by General Wei Daming relating to his career in the National Government of the Republic of China secret service, a memorial publication about Wei's wife, and other miscellaneous materials and photographs relating to Wei and his family.

Wei Daming 魏大銘 (1907-1998) was a general and cryptographer. He was born in 1907 in Shanghai. He was a member of the Chinese Nationalist Revolutionary Army and helped build the cryptographic network for the regime. He later joined the Nationalist Chinese Military Intelligence Bureau. Wei headed the cryptographic division of Nationalist Chinese secret service for forty years; he was a key figure in modern China's (and post-1949 Taiwan's) technology relating to code-breaking, signal intelligence, and cryptographic ciphers. He was charged with corruption in 1965 and imprisoned until 1970. He died in Taiwan in 1998.

2 manuscript boxes (0.6 Linear Feet)

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Box 2 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.