February 16: Hoover Institution Archives Announces New Chinese Acquisitions.STANFORD, Calif. -- The Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President will formally honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. the donors who have placed important papers of Chinese Chinese, subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages), which is also sometimes grouped with the Tai, or Thai, languages in a Sinitic subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language stock. political and economic leaders in its Library and Archives archives Repository for an organized body of records. Archives are produced or received by a public, semipublic, institutional, or business entity in the transaction of its affairs and are preserved by it or its successors. .
WHO: Speakers include Elena Danielson, director of the Hoover
Library and Archives; Ramon Myers, senior fellow; and
representatives of the Kuomintang Party, National Women's League
of the Republic of China, the T. V. Soong family and the Chiang
kai-shek family.
WHAT: Presentations by Elena Danielson on "Unlocking Chinese
History: New Initiatives of the Hoover Archives;" Ramon Myers
"China's Quest for Unification, National Security, and
Modernization," and public remarks by Chinese donors.
They will announce an historic agreement to microfilm official
records of the Kuomintang Party in Taipei. They will also announce
that the diaries of Chiang Kai Shek and Chiang Ching-kuo will be
on loan to the Hoover Institution for 50 years.
WHEN, WHERE: Stauffer Auditorium, Hoover Institution, Stanford
University, Wednesday, February 16 beginning at 4:00 p.m.
Reception at 5:30 p.m.
Working Press: Are invited to attend and cover the program. To
reserve a seat, please RSVP before February 15 to Hoover
Institution Public Affairs at 650-723-0603.
A copy of full agenda will be sent upon request. |
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