Preface：Hoover Institution and Fudan University Modern China Research Series：Leadership and Archival Documents

The Hoover Institution is a public policy research center located at Stanford University．It is world-renowned for its scholarship and research on domestic and foreign affairs，and the repository of valuable archival and documentary material from Europe and Asia．Many documents date from before World War Ⅰ．The Hoover Institution Archives is now a repository of the diaries of Chiang Kai-shek and his son，Chiang Ching-kuo，as well as copies of the vast historical records from the Kuomintang，the dominant political party in China before 1949 when it moved to Taiwan（The Kuomintang remained as the ruling party in Taiwan until 2000）．

Fudan University is the leading university in Shanghai，China，known world-wide for its research facilities in the natural and social sciences．Its Department of History has been researching the work of modern Chinese leaders and their influence on the modernization of China．

In 2005，Hoover Institution and Fudan University collaborated on the first seminar on the management，collection，and preservation of Chinese materials from the Nationalist period．A second seminar in 2006，“T．V．Soong and Wartime Nationalist China，1937-1945”was held in Shanghai，and scholars from the United States，Japan，Korea，and China's Taiwan，Hong Kong and Mainland could now examine the role of T．V．Soong during World War Ⅱ．

It is from this second seminar that the Hoover Institution and Fudan University are pleased to publish some of these historical documents in a new series，Hoover Institution and Fudan University Modern China Research Series：Leadership and Archival Documents．The first volume presents the telegrams exchanged between T．V．Soong and Chiang Kai-shek from 1940-1943．The second consists of photographs of T．V．Soong，many taken from his personal family album．The third volume is the proceedings of this 2006 seminar．

Future publications will continue to collect the writings，oral histories，private correspondence，and personal photographs of many major and important figures in modern Chinese history．This series is now promoting an exciting and new understanding of modern China．

We want to express our deepest gratitude to the Hoover Institution，Stanford University，and Fudan University．Their support has made this series possible．We also want to thank the many colleagues，friends，and donors for their participation in this project．We appreciate their hard work，devotion，and generosity to make this series successful．

Tai-chun Kuo，Hoover Institution，Stanford University

Wu Jingping，Department of History，Fudan University

March 8，2008