Academia Historia today announced that it has published the fourth batch of diaries kept by former presidents Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國).
The diaries are part of a collection formerly kept at Stanford University that were returned to Taiwan in September last year after a long legal battle over their ownership.
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Since their return, Academia Historia has been digitizing them and making them publicly available in chronological order.
The fourth set materials includes Chiang Kai-shek’s diaries from 1930 to 1933, totaling 1,481 items and 2,214 digital files, and Chiang Ching-kuo’s diaries from 1943 to 1944 totaling 1,014 items and 1,253 files, Academia Historia said in a news release.
Chiang Kai-shek’s documents include one original volume and three transcribed volumes, while the Chiang Ching-kuo collection stands at two original volumes, it said.
While the items are currently accessible and searchable, they would not be available online until the copyright expires, although they can be accessed directly in Academia Historia’s reading room, it added.
Since March, 34 volumes covering 24 years and 16,138 digital files have been published.
The diaries are organized chronologically, with files clarifying whether each is a full or partial entry, if there is a missing page or if it has content that has yet to be understood.
The 1930 diaries include Chiang Kai-shek’s decision to be baptized, with him citing his mother-in-law’s illness as the motivating factor.
In addition to writing their respective diaries, both Chiangs also read one another’s entries, Academia Historia said.
Today’s batch is the earliest published so far.
Academia Historia has already published Chiang Kai-shek’s diaries from 1948 to 1972, in three groups from 1948 to 1954, 1955 to 1960, and 1961 to 1972.
It has also published Chiang Ching-kuo’s diaries from 1960 to 1969 and from 1970 to 1979.
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