In her presentation, Tehyun Ma (Bristol University) told how, after being defeated in the Chinese civil war in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek was able to reconstruct the KMT party on Taiwan and how “total mobilization” shaped the way in which KMT party leaders and members approached the practicalities of state building. The Hoover Archives’ rich holdings of KMT party materials and of Taiwan’s land and economic reforms in the early Cold War era, such as Zhongguo Guo Ming Dang Records, Zhongguo Dizheng Yanjiu Interview, and the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction Records, 1964–1972, provide crucial sources of materials with which to answer Professor Ma’s important questions.
