Zuo, Shunsheng (Tso, Shun-sheng), 左舜生, 1961

Extent:
304 pages and 2 Reels
Scope and content:

Early life and education; participation in and leadership of the Young China Party; meetings with Chiang Kai-shek; rapproachement between the Young China Party and the Kuomintang; appointment to the National Defense Advisory Council; Third Group mediation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party; government job as minister of agriculture and forestry; editorship of the Lien-ho P'ing-lun [United Voice Weekly]. Valuable as inside account of Chinese political and intellectual history. Audio does not represent full interview content. Most audio associated with interview was not retained. Content on reel was retained as sample of source material for edited transcript.

Interview transcript and audio have been digitized.

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Access and use

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Access: Open
Location of this collection:
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