Register of the Michel Oksenberg papers
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Title: Michel Oksenberg papers
Date (inclusive): 1976-2000
Collection Number: 2019C153
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Chinese
Physical Description:
17 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder
(10 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The Michel Oksenberg papers (1976-2000) document Oksenberg's visits Zouping County, Shandong Province, China, where he interviewed
a number of local political leaders on topics such as the economy and industry, education, and the justice system. The papers
consist of research notes and interviews with PRC and US officials, as well as photographs, negatives, and slides related
to these visits from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2019.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Michel Okensberg papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Biographical / Historical
Michel Oksenberg (1938-2001) was a leading political scientist and China expert. He earned his B.A. from Swarthmore College
in 1960, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1963 and 1969 respectively. He began his
career at Stanford University in 1966, moved to Columbia University in 1968, and then to the University of Michigan in 1973,
where he was on the faculty for twenty years. He served as president of the East-West Center in Honolulu from 1992 to 1995,
and then as senior fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford until the time of his death. From 1977 to 1980,
Oksenberg served as a senior staff member on the National Security Council under the Carter administration, overseeing issues
involving China and East Asia. After an initial but less successful trip to Beijing in 1977 with Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance, Oksenberg traveled with National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski to Beijing in May 1978, where they met with Leonard
Woodcock, the head of the U.S. liaison office there, to lay the groundwork for establishing diplomatic ties between the two
countries. He played a crucial role in the finalization of U.S.-China normalization of bilateral relationship.
Content Description
The Michel Oksenberg papers (1976-2000) consists of research notes and interviews with PRC and US officials, as well as photographs,
negatives, and slides related to his activities in Zouping County, China, from the 1970s to the 1990s, including former President
Jimmy Carter's 1997 visit to Shandong Province, China. The collection also contains maps of China.
Zouping County, Shangdong Province file
1976-2000
Notebooks
1988-1999
Scope and Contents
Contains notes on Oksenberg's interviews with various government and community leaders during visits to Zouping County between
1988-1999. Lists of interview subjects taken from donor notes; original notebook titles maintained.
box 1, folder 1
Book A
1988
Processing Information
Book is labelled 1990, but handwritten note says 1988.
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: Ministry of Finance- Fang Xiaoqin; Department of Foreign Affairs- Mr. Shi; Party Office- Li Ruyi;
Government Office- Gu Yuxing; Banquet Office-Mr. Zhang, ??, Mr. Su, Party Secretary Wang Yenfu; Rural Work Department- Jia
Zilung; Agricultural Bureau- Lu Zumeng, Zhang Fengzhong, Shi Zhenghai; Propaganda Department- Zheng Qinggao, Wei Hongqian;
Culture Bureau- Wang Yunying; Water Conservancy Bureau- Zhang Shiji; United Front Department- Li Yunzhong; Planning Bureau-
Wei Hengyu; Post and Telecommunications Department- Wang Zhaoming, Yuan Shuzhi; Communications Bureau- Cheng Yanzheng; Construction
Commission- Xu Binzhang, Sun Jingshan; Economics Commission- Wu Guohua, Lu Bolin; Finance Bureau- Liu Xiangzhen, Zhao Mingxia;
Commercial Bureau- Li Zhiping, Han Wentong, Xin Yunsheng.
box 1, folder 2
Book B
1988
Processing Information
Book is labelled 1990, but handwritten note says 1988.
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: Sun Zhen Village- Li ?, Supervision Secretary Zhu Zhong, Fang Yuxiang, Wang Li; People's Congress-
Shang Xizhi; Education Bureau- Bureau Chief Yuan Xuxian, Head of Secretariat Qing Jenyong, Wang Yuanho; CPPCC- Office Chief
Cheng Xueyan; Bureau of Grain; Organization Department- Li Shuikun, Gao Shishen; Personnel Bureau; People's Armed Forces
Bureau- Bu Wujiang, Wang Yingkang; Procuracy- Zhao Juanwu, Li Guozhong; Bureau of Health- Bureau Chief Wang Chengxian; Electric
Power- Bureau Chief Zhao Diannong, Deputy Bureau Chief Li Yonghai; Regional Planning Bureau- Xia Fangliang; People's Assembly-
Vice Chairman Sun Dejun, Sun Liqiang; Feng Village; Party Office- First Party Secretary Zheng Xichang; Su Naijun; Qinghai
Oil Explanation Bureau- Chief Petroleum Engineer Huang Yicheng, Head of Office Qi Xiaohui, Chief Engineer Wu Yaowen.
box 1, folder 3
Book C
1988
Processing Information
Book is labelled 1990, but handwritten note says 1988.
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: Tax Bureau- Wang Dianrao, Chen Ziwen; Letter to Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences Zhao Fusan; Mr. Shi ?; Fengjia Village; Electric Power Bureau; Hao-sheng Village- Township Zhang Zhaotai, Deputy
Secretary of Townshp Chen Shouzhou, Deputy Township Head Chang Tongsheng, CPCC Deputy Head Li Shukui; Bureau of Finance; Hejia
Village; Jiangdong Village- 1st Secretary Mr. Wang ?; Dongjing Village; Family Planning Commission- 1st Director Zhang Kuizheng,
2nd Director Zhang Xigong; Construction Bank- Jing Xianggun; Bureau of Geology and Mines- Wei Chengxiao; Zhang Yijun, Zhang
Junsai; CAS- Deputy Director Xin Ximeng, Professor Cu Jianying, Sun Siyuan; Liao Gailong; Party History Committee; Jin Chongji;
Shi Zhe; National Library- Lu Cheng-ts'ao; Wu Heng; Second Inverview- Jin Chongji; Tong Dalin; Xie Baoding; Xu Yi; Peng Ming,
Chen Mingxian; Li Fuqun's Secretary- Wu ?; Han Nianlong; Dong ?, Qian Zhengyin.
box 1, folder 4
Notes by Wang Hongying
1988 July 14
Scope and Contents
Contains notes on Oksenberg's notebooks.
box 1, folder 5
Notes in Chinese on Zouping County
circa 1990
box 1, folder 6
Notes on Zouping County
1990 November
box 2, folder 1
Book 1
1991 June
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: banquet conversations with Zhang Guiyun, Yan Qingguo, and Han Zhongqing; water conservancy; People's
Bank- Liu Fanming, Tian Bangsong; Agricultural Bank of China- Ma Yonghui, Pan Zhenke, Yin Zhaofeng, He Jingling; Bank of Industry
and Commerce (BIC)- Li Fuxiang; Bank of China- Shi Jichun; Bureau for Management of Industry and Commerce- Li Huiqing; Construction
Bank- Jing Xiangkun; Tax Bureau.
box 2, folder 2
Book 2
1991 June
Processing Information
Book is labelled 1988, but begins June 18, 1991.
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: United Front Department- Li Yuzhong; Taiwan Affairs Office- Zhang Zhimin, Zhang Nianchi; Electric
Power Bureau; Magistrate Yan ?; Middle School Principal Han ?; Post and Telecommunications Bureau- Wang Zhaoming; Public Health
Bureau- Wang Chengxian; Environmental Protection Bureau; Construction Commission- Chen Xiuzhi.
box 2, folder 3
Book 3
1991 June
Processing Information
Book is labelled 1988, but begins June 18, 1991.
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: Auditing Bureau- Niu Zhensheng; Education Bureau; No. 1 Middle School- Principal Li; Personnel
Bureau- Liu Shuzhang; Bureau of Communications- Zheng Yanxiang; Zouping Cotton Mill- Xiang Xingcun; Hubo Brewery- Lu Yuedong;
interviews with Jing Zhangkung, Dong Fengji, Han ?, Wang Yuanfu on topics such as the brewery, local factory, state farms,
public executions, and the excavation of Huangshan Mountain; People's Court- Zhang Ziyen; Biyun Mineral Water Company- Shih
Hongyi; Independent Household Laborer's Association- Xu Hu.
box 2, folder 4
Book 4
1991 June
Processing Information
Book is labelled 1988, but begins June 18, 1991.
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: leadership of Humin Special District- Tung Fengji, Hu Anfu, Huang Xuechun; Zouping Party Office-
Jiao Ganqing, Liu Zhuanqing, Zhou Maolin; Organization Department- Zheng Xichang; Education Bureau Chief; Planning Commission-
Hui Huayu; Finance Bureau- Yu Yuanmei; Water Conservancy- Zhang Zhishu; Electric Power Bureau- Liu Denian; Environmental Protection
Bureau- Pu Xianxing; Zouping History and Gazetteer Office- Qiu Yenqing; Bureau of Finance- Liu Xiangzhen.
box 2, folder 5
Book 5
1991 June
Processing Information
Book is labelled 1988, but begins June 18, 1991.
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: copper mine- Guo Xingting; Party Office 1st Secretary- Zhang Guiyun; Party Committee Office;
Organization Department; Examination Office- Su Jianguo; Party History Committee- Zhang Fantai; Government Office- Shi Xuhai;
Bureau of Discipline and Inspection- Zhao Shuming; Procuracy Zhao ?; CCP Organization Committee- Zhang Kongshan, Han Qixiang,
Meng Xianhong, Zhang Hanling.
box 2, folder 6
Book 6
1991 June
Processing Information
Book is labelled 1988, but begins June 18, 1991.
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: Party Discipline and Inspection Committee- Gong Jingbao; County Magistraty Yan Qingguo; Legal
System Bureau- Wang An; People's Assembly- Xuan Lichang, Qu Kexiang; Justice Bureau- Li An; CPPCC- Cheng Xueyan; Zouping County
Town- Li Shenmeng, Zhao Yankui; Propaganda Department- Wei Hongqian; Political Legal Committee- Li Huayu, Zhao Hongming; Bureau
of Civil Affairs- Meng Qinglong; Li Delin.
box 2, folder 7
Volume 1
1996
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: Shandong Long Town Planning Division Planning Commission- Zhao Feng; Shandong Oil and Gas Development
Company- Meng Hong, Liu Donghai; random note; Vice County Magistrate Li Dingzhou; electric power; Biyun Water Bottling Company-
Tse Huanyi; cotton mill- Xiang Xingcun; PTT Vice Bureau Chief Yu Yong; Water Supply Administration- Li ?; County Magistrate;
Agricultural Bureau- Sun Tingli; Water Conservancy Bureau- Chang Maoxing; oil company- Manager Pan Dunzhong, Chief of Finance
Ma Liming, Personnel Services Chief Zhou ?; Li Huimao, Cui Yukun, Tian Hangbo; Sun Village; Feng Village; Zhong Bijian; Dong
Fengji; Han ?; Party Office- 1st Secretary Jiang Yinghao; Su Naijun; PPCC; People's Assembly- Wang Jingshan; County Government
Office- Shi Xuhai; Party Committee Office- Vice Director Wang Ronglian; Party Office- Han Diumu; State Tax Bureau- Zhang Fanghai;
Local Tax Bureau- Zhang Yiping; Finance Bureau- Bureau Chief ?, Vice Bureau Chief Zhao Fangjie; TVE Bureau- Bureau Chief Cao
Xiufeng, Vice Chief Wang Aiheng; Individual Household Society- Xu Hu; Personnel Bureau- Bureau Chief Liu Dongsheng, Vice Bureau
Chief Yuan Tsenggu.
box 2, folder 8
Volume 2
1996
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: Labor Bureau- Hao Ming, Bureau Chief Hao Sheng, Gan Yushang; YCL- 1st Secretary Yen Shizhu; Women's
Federation- Deputy Chairman Chang Ruiying, Prop Deputy Director Ji Xiongli; Industrial and Commerce Federation- Wang Yungying;
Education Bureau- Wang Yuanhe; Trade Union- Chao Shuming; Radio-TV Center- Wang Yu; Education Bureau; Bureau of Industry and
Commerce- Li Huiqing; Culture Bureau- Zhang Tongren; Organization Department- Gao Shisen; Old Cadres Bureau- Huai Xia; Bureau
of Justice- Yang Yuxiang; Propaganda Department; Political Legal Office; People's Court- Vice Head of Court Li Shiyun; Bureau
of Civil Affairs- Zhao Congbing; Weiqiao Textile Mill- Vice Secretary Sun Chenlin; Statistical Bureau- Sheng Xiuwen; copper
mine- Li Xichi; Party Committee Office- Zhao Huachen; Beihe Village- Zhu Tang; 1st Secretary Jiang Yinghao; Magistrate- Zhao
Yude; Rock River Village- Zhao ?; Nazhuang Village Party Chief; Beihe Village; Li Hongzhu; Tung Fengji, Jiang ?; Han ?, Li
Binzhong; People's Assembly Chief; Farewell Dinner.
box 3, folder 1
Volume 3
1996
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: Township Enterprise Bureau- Sun Qingda; Bureau of Economics Committee- Zhang Banfu, Huo Yuanpu;
Bureau of Material Supply- Director Liu Fatian; EC Bureau; SPC- Vice Head Wei ?; Party School- Vice Head Yang Yongmin; Bureau
of Foreign Trade Foreign Trade Company- Su Songxiao, Zhang Tongling; People's Armed Police- Geng Xuanying, Li Zhihua; petroluem
company- Bi Yiho; Fengjia Village; Sunzhen People's Assembly- Bai Ping, Li Xinzi, Li Yasheng; Sunzhen Township- Chief Lu Wengang;
Huili Office and School- Principal Zhang Fangchun; Yuancheng Township- Head Sun Tingli, Deputy Head Xu Fu, Deputy Head Wang
Xuzheng; Yuancheng SMC; grain station; Dongyu Village; Zhutang Banshichu- Ma Haiyuan, Chief Zhang ?.
box 3, folder 2-3
Visit book 1
1999
Scope and Contents
Includes interview notes on: Han ?; Party Office- Cui?; Han ?; Organization Department- Shan Yuchang; Party Office- Ji Deli;
Government Office- Head Liu Li; Personel Bureau- Liu Dongsheng; Discipline and Inspection Commission- Liu Shuzhong; SPC- Head
of SPC Zhang Yunggui, Major Projects Division Zhang Liang, Director of Company Planning Zhan Xin, Invenstment Section Han
Ruishang; Electric Bureau- Zhao Changshui; Weiqiao Textile Mill- Chang ?; Finance Bureau- Yu ?; Finance Bureau- Wang ?, Yuan
Fongshui; State Tax Bureau- Zhang Fanghai; Local Tax Bureau- Head Li Yanping; People's Bank- Head Ruan Jinquan.
box 3, folder 4-6
Interview transcripts
undated
Scope and Contents
Typed interview transcripts based on notebooks including: Ministry of Finance- Director Fang Xiaoqin; Department of Foreign
Affairs- Mr. Shi ?; Party Office- Office Head Li Ruyi; Government Office- Head Gu Yuxing; First Night Banquet Office- Deputy
Party Secretary Zhang?, ??, First Deputy Party Secretary Su ?, Wang Yenfu; Rural Work Department- Deputy Chief Jia Zilung;
Agricultural Bureau- Lu Zumeng, Zhang Fengzhong, Shi Zhenghai; Propaganda Department- Propaganda Department Deputy Chief Zheng
Qinggao, Spiritual Civilization Office Head Wei Hongqian; Culture Bureau- Wang Yunying; Water Conservancy Bureau- Head Zhang
Shiji; United Front Department- Head Li Yunzhong; Planning Bureau- Deputy Director Wei Hengyu; Post and Telecommunications-
Wang Zhaoming, Yuan Shuzhi; Communications Bureau- Chief Cheng Yanzheng; Construction Commission- Deputy Director Xu Binzhang,
Deputy Director Sun Jingshan; Economics Committee- Vice Chairman Lu Bolin, Chairman Wu Guohua; Finance Bureau- Liu Xiangzhen,
Vice Deputy Zhao Mingxia; Commercial Bureau- Director Li Zhiping, Deputy Director Han Wendong, SMC Chief Xin Yunsheng; Li
?, Supervision Secretary Zhu Zhong, Fang Yuxiang, Wang Li; Shang Xizhih; Education Bureau- Chief Yuan Xuxian, Head of Secretariat
Qing Jenyong, Wang Yuanho; CPPCC- Office Chief Cheng Xue-yan; Bureau of Grain; Organization Department- Deputy Head Li Shuikun,
Gao Shishen; Personnel Bureau; Bu Wujiang, Wang Yingkang; Zhao Juanwu, Li Guozhong; Bureau of Health- Chief Wang Chengxian;
Bureau Chief Zhao Diannong, Deputy Bureau Chief Li Yonghai; Xia Fangliang; People's Assembly- Vice Chairman Sun Dejun, Standing
Committee Member Sun Liqiang; Feng Village; Zheng Xichang; Su Naijun; MER Hang Yicheng, Head Office Qi Xiaohui, Chief Engineer
Wu Yaowen.
box 3, folder 7
"Preliminary Impressions of Zouping County Level Government"
1990
Scope and Contents
Article based on interviews in Zouping County in 1988-1989. Presented by Oksenberg at the Association for Asian Studies Conference
in Chicago.
box 3, folder 8
Correspondence, reports, maps
1991
box 4, folder 2-4
Correspondence and drafts on "History of Shandong Field Research Project"
1984 September-1988 November
box 4, folder 5
Correspondence, reports, and brochures
1993-1999
box 4, folder 6-7
Reports and brochures
1993-1995
box 4, folder 8
《走向世界雜記》 "Openings Magazine"
1988
Scope and Contents
Research by American scholars conducted in Chinese.
box 4, folder 9
Photographs and draft of "Brief Introduction of Shandong Xiwang Group Corporation"
1997 October 20
box 5, folder 1-3
Statistical reports
1988-1990
Scope and Contents
Photocopies.
box 5, folder 4-5
Reports
1986, 1990
Scope and Contents
Photocopies.
Printed material
1989-2010
box 17, folder 1-2
岳陽樓記:範敬宜書 Yuèyánglóu jì : Fàn Jìngyí shū
2010 August
Scope and Contents
Souvenir books.
box 17, folder 3-4
梁鄒諸景圖: 王兆曾 Liáng zōu zhū jǐng tú : Wáng Zhàocéng
2010 August
Scope and Contents
Souvenir books.
box 17, folder 5
Original enclosure for souvenir books
2010 August
box 18
周村区志:山东省淄博市周村区志编纂委员会编 Zhōu cūn qū zhì: Shāndōng shěng zībó shì zhōu cūn qū zhì biānzuǎn wěiyuánhuì biān
1992 April
box 18
县政府管理 Xiàn zhèngfǔ guǎnlǐ
1994 July
Scope and Contents
Contains inscription.
box 18
邹长抗日烽火录: 纪念抗日战争胜利50周年 Zōu zhǎng kàngrì fēnghuǒ lù: Jìniàn kàngrì zhànzhēng shènglì 50 zhōunián
1995
box 18
邹平抗日斗争史略 Zōupíng kàngrì dòuzhēng shǐ lüè
1995 June
Scope and Contents
Contains inscription.
box 18
中共邹平党史大事记 (1949-1995) Zhōnggòng zōupíng dǎng shǐ dàshìjì (1949-1995)
1998 February
box 18
中国共产党山东省邹平县组织史资料 (1988-1995) Zhōngguó gòngchǎndǎng shāndōng shěng zōupíng xiàn zǔzhī shǐ zīliào (1988-1995)
1998 February
box 18
县域经济卖践探素 Xiànyù jīngjì mài jiàn tàn sù
1999 April
Scope and Contents
Contains inscription.
box 18
乡村政治:中国村民自治的调查与思考 Xiāngcūn zhèngzhì: Zhōngguó cūnmín zìzhì de diàochá yǔ sīkǎo
1999 May
box 18, folder 1
奋发进区四十年 Fènfā jìn qū sìshí nián
1989
Scope and Contents
Photocopy.
box 19, folder 1-3
《讀書新聞》"Dúshū xīnwén"
1976-1977
Scope and Contents
Contains Chinese- and Korean-language newspapers including issues of 平山申氏宗報、儒林月報、and 松江宗報.
box 19, folder 4-7
《鄒平報》"Zōupíng bào," Volumes 1-4
1994-1998
box 20, folder 1-5
《鄒平報》"Zōupíng bào," Volumes 5-8
1994-1998
Photographic media
1988-2000
undated
box 11, folder 2
1988-1996
Scope and Contents
Contains loose photographs related to Oksenberg's trips to Zouping.
box 11, folder 3-6
1991 June-July
Processing Information
Contains photographic prints from negatives in this collection. See Box 14 for original negatives.
box 12, folder 1-6
1991 June-July
Processing Information
Contains photographic prints from negatives in this collection. See Box 14 for original negatives.
box 13, folder 1-3
1991 June-July
Processing Information
Contains photographic prints from negatives in this collection. See Box 14 for original negatives.
box 13, folder 4
1996
Processing Information
Contains photographic prints from negatives in this collection. See Box 14 for original negatives.
box 13, folder 5
1999 October-November
Processing Information
Contains photographic prints from negatives in this collection. See Box 14 for original negatives.
box 13, folder 6
1991
undated
Scope and Contents
Contains unidentified loose notes related to photograph content.
box 14, folder 1-14
1991-1999
Processing Information
Contains negatives of photographic prints and slides. See Boxes 11-13 for photographic prints; see Box 15 for slides.
box 15, folder 1
1988
Processing Information
Contains slides from negatives in this collection. See Box 14 for original negatives.
box 15, folder 2-9
1991
Processing Information
Contains slides from negatives in this collection. See Box 14 for original negatives.
box 15, folder 10-14
1996
Processing Information
Contains slides from negatives in this collection. See Box 14 for original negatives.
box 15, folder 15-22
1999 October-November
Processing Information
Contains slides from negatives in this collection. See Box 14 for original negatives.
box 16, folder 1-2
Aerial photographs
1996
Scope and Contents
Contains photographic prints and negatives of aerial images of Zouping.
box 16, folder 3-20
circa 1990
Processing Information
See Box 16 Folder 3 for donor-supplied list of photograph subjects.
Scope and Contents
Contains photographs of Oksenberg with Zouping leaders.
box 16, folder 21-31
circa 1997
Scope and Contents
Contains photographs of Oksenberg on factory tours during Zouping trip.
box 16, folder 32-39
1988-1993
Scope and Contents
Contains photographs of Oksenberg with Openings Magazine staff during his 1988 and 1992 trips to Zouping, articles about his
trip in Chinese, and a letter from Openings Magazine Director Jing Qiang and Editor-in-Chief Wang Chengshan.
box 5, folder 6-7
Tibet file
1988-1997
Processing Information
Maintained original chronological arrangement.
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence on the topic of Tibet and the CCP shared with Oksenberg by Faye Dill, Personal Assistant to President
Carter, and correspondence from President Carter.