Series contains reference materials, manuscripts, telegrams, and notes of conversation related to topics and events prior to 1931, dating between 1906 and 1931. The reference materials include Wellington Koo's oral history transcripts on his family and education background as well as documents written by others relating to the history of the Paris Peace Conference (1919) and the Washington Conference (1921-1922). The highlights of the series consist of telegrams in Chinese exchanged between the Chinese Delegation, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other organizations in China during the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The notes of conversation document the meetings from between Wellington Koo and other Foreign Ministers to China from November to December of 1931 during the time when Koo was the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Additional papers prior to the Mukden Incident of 1931, as noted by Wellington Koo, were left in Tianjin, China. Papers were later housed in the Second Historical Archive of China in Nanjing (中國南京第二歷史檔案館). Materials related to his personal life prior to 1931 may also be found in Series X: Personal.
Arranged semi-chronologically.
Box 1 Folder 1
Sino-British Convention on Tibet, memoranda on the Question of Kiaochow-Shandong (胶州), 1906
Box 1 Folder 2
Meeting record with British Ambassador on Tibet / 顾维钧先生经办藏案档案, 1913-1924
Handwritten copy by the Academia Sinica Institute of Modern History.
Former Box 1 Folder 2
Microfilm MN#7915-1
Microfilm: Report to President Yuan on Tibet, 1914-1915
Box 1 Folder 3
Paris Peace Conference, on Kiaochow-Shandong Question, 1919-1920
Box 1 Folder 4
Committee on Pacific and Far Eastern Questions, 1921-1922
Box 1 Folder 4
Oral history Interview #7-13, original draft, volume 4-6, 1962
Box 1 Folder 5
Oral history transcript, on education background, 1959
Box 1 Folder 6
Oral history transcript, on early Republican period, 1960s
Box 1 Folder 7
Oral history reference materials on Koo's early Republican period, 1960-1961
Box 1 Folder 8
Oral history transcript, on Washington Conference (1922), 1962
Box 1a Folder 1
Premier Liang's interview with Japan during Washington Conference on railroad question, 1962
Box 1a Folder 1
Liang Yansun's Chronology of Events (梁燕孙先生年谱), 1962
Box 1a Folder 3
Wunz King's (金問泗, 字純儒) manuscript on Paris Peace Conference, 1959
Box 1a Folder 4
Saar Basin question at the League, 1920-1921
Box 1a Folder 5
Wunz King's (金問泗, 字純儒) manuscript on Washington Conference, 1960-1961
Box 1a Folder 6
Reference materials on Koo's career (1923-1925), 1960s
Including news clippings on the Washington Conference.
Former Box 1a Folder 6
Box 1a Folder 7
Reference materials on Paris Peace Conference and foreign affairs, 1920-1924
Box 1a Folder 8
Reference materials on the Shandong Question at the Paris Peace Conference and the Washington Conference, 1936
Also include Koo's typed notes about his relation to Wunz King (金問泗, 字純儒).
Former Box 1a Folder 8
Box 1a Folder 9
Reference materials, government Gazette, in Chinese, 1920s
Box 289 Folder 25
Questions for Readjustment at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
Box 297 Folder 3
Documents Diplomatiques: Washington Conference, 1923
Box 256 Folder 7
Opinion on the revision of the Treaty of Tientsin; Unfair treatment of Chinese in Annam, Vietnam, 1926, 1928
Box 228 Folder 8
Secret memoranda on Manchuria, Mongol, China, submitted by General Tanaka, 1927
Telegrams, 1919
Notes of Conversation, as Minister for Foreign Affairs in Nanking, November 25-December 13, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Mr. Wilden, French Minister to China, November 25, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, November 25, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Sir Miles Lampson, November 26, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Mr. Johnson, American Minister to China, November 26, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Mr. Wilden, November 28, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Dr. Trautmann, German Minister to China, November 28, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Mr. Wilden, November 28, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Mr. Wilden, November 30, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Polish Charge d'Affaires, November 30, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Mamoru Shigemitsu (重光葵), Japanese Minister to China, November 30, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Mr. Johnson, December 1, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Mr. Shigemitsu, December 2, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Conversation between Uemura and Mr. Hsu Mo (徐谟), Deputy Foreign Minister, December 2, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Mr. Shigemitsu, December 3, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Mr. Tautemann, December 4, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Mr. Peck, Counsellor to the American Legation in Nanjing, December 13, 1931