Xu Daulin typescript: Chinese local administration under the national government : democracy and self-government versus traditional centralism, 1965

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Summary

Creators:
Xu, Daolin, 1906-1973
Abstract:
Relates to Chinese local government primarily in the 1920s and 1930s. Includes variant drafts, reader's report, and correspondence with publishers.
Extent:
1 item (1 manuscript box) (0.4 Linear Feet)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[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.

Background

Scope and content:

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 Includes Xu's unpublished manuscript entitled Chinese Local Administration under the National Government and his personal correspondence with the scholarly community in the United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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2011.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Preferred citation:

[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.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
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