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Title: Xu Daulin typescript: Chinese local administration under the national government : democracy and self-government versus traditional
centralism
Date (inclusive): 1965
Collection Number: 2011C27
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 item (1 manuscript box)
(0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Relates to Chinese local government primarily in the 1920s and 1930s. Includes variant drafts, reader's report, and correspondence
with publishers.
Creator:
Xu, Daolin, 1906-1973
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2011.
[Identification of item], Xu Daulin typescript: Chinese local administration under the national government : democracy and
self-government versus traditional centralism, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Hsu Dau-lin or Xu Daulin (1906-73) was a distinguished legal scholar who made substantial contributions to the Constitutional
Law of the Republic of China. After receiving his doctoral degree at University of Berlin in 1932, Xu returned to China and
became Chiang Kai-shek's personal secretary. When Chiang published his famous article, "Enemies or Friends?" as a warning
to the Japanese militarists in 1934, he published it under Xu's name. In 1937, Xu who was then living in Xikou in Zhejiang
Province, Chiang Kai-shek's home village, was hired as a tutor to the generalissimo's twenty-seven-year-old son, Ching-kuo,
who had just returned from twelve years in Soviet Russia. In 1938, Xu moved to Rome, where he served as Nationalist China's
chargé d'affaires in Italy until 1941. In 1942 he became a department director in the Ministry of Personnel. In 1945 he received
a cabinet-level position as director of political affairs of the Executive Yuan.
Scope and Content of Collection
Relates to Chinese local government primarily in the 1920s and 1930s. Includes variant drafts, reader's report, and correspondence
with publishers. Includes Xu's unpublished manuscript entitled Chinese Local Administration under the National Government
and his personal correspondence with the scholarly community in the United States.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949
Local government -- China