Reminiscences of H. H. Kung : oral history, 1958.

Biographical Note

Cabinet member, financier.

Scope and Contents

Childhood, family's position in business, early influence of missionaries, experiences in politics, the Boxer Rebellion; education in China and United States, return to China; early association with Kuomintang and rise within Nationalist government; trip to Europe 1937 and meetings with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Neville Chamberlain, Eduard Benes, Hitler, and Mussolini; view of many government policies, role in currency stabilization, information about the Sian Incident and increasing Japanese pressure; friendship with various Chinese and foreign leaders.

Subjects

• Cabinet officers--China--Interviews.
• Capitalists and financiers--Interviews.
• China--Foreign relations.
• China--History--20th century.
• How, Julie Lien-ying, -1982, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Kung, H. H. (Hsiang-hsi), 1880-1967--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)