Reminiscences of Shun-sheng Tso: oral history, 1961.

Biographical Note

Leader of the Young China Party; editor; political essayist

Scope and Contents

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

Subjects

• Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975.
• China--History--20th century.
• China--Intellectual life.
• China--Politics and government--1925-1961.
• Communism--China.
• Editors--Interviews.
• How, Julie Lien-ying, -1982, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Mediation--Politics and government--China.
• Newspapers--Politics and government--China.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Political activists--Interviews.
• Public officers--Interviews.
• Zhongguo guo min dang.
• Zhongguo qing nian dang.
• Zuo, Shunsheng, 1893-1969--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1974