Taiwan Archives Obtain Chiang Kai-shek Diaries: US Court
The US court has ended the ten-year war by giving ownership of the diaries of former Presidents Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo to the historical association and plans their return to Taiwan later this year.
The District Court in San Jose, California, ruled Tuesday that the document currently at Stanford University's Hoover Institute has expired, the San Francisco Standard reported on Tuesday.
The discussion goes back to 2005, when Chiang Ching-kuo's grandson Fang Zhiyi signed an agreement that the Hoover Institute would retain the archives for 50 years.
Following a dispute between the owners of the newspaper, Stanford University filed a lawsuit in 2013 to determine who had the legal rights to the information in the United States.
Later that year, the school was taken over as a research university when several members of the Chiang family transferred ownership of the list to the Taiwan History Institute National Archives.
In 2015, a U.S. court ruled that the country's history must first conduct a legal investigation for archival members in Taiwan, where most of the parties live.
After several years of proceedings, the Taipei District Court ruled in 2020 that the official documents of the Chiang family are state property, while all other documents belong to the Chiang family.
The decision was upheld by the Supreme Court on appeal last year and was upheld by a US court ruling last week.
Although the Emirs will keep the documents confidential, several members of Chiang's family, who claimed to have the documents, agreed to donate the documents to the documents after the Taiwan case. Chiang Ching-kuo's bride, Jiang Youmei, was the last family member to be confirmed in May.
Chen Yishen, director of the History Department, told the Central News Agency that the archive recently sent two experts to collect the documents. Copies of his speeches and correspondence.
Chen said the collection will likely be shipped to Taiwan by the end of the year when inventory is finished. According to the contents of Chapter
, Chen said he plans to publish a "particularly useful" version of Chiang Kai-shek's diary by the end of October, including his maiden voyage from 1948 to 1954.
Although Chiang Ching-kuo's diary only lasts until the end of 1979, Chen said that part of it from 1977 to 1979 — which includes recognition of the United States and Beijing — is already available in the History School's online database. When asked if the
List would be made public, Chen made no commitment, saying that his priority is to make these lists available to researchers and, in the long run, to share them in the president's archives.
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