Huping Ling, Professor of History and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor of the Chinese Ministry of education, has been selected as a Visiting Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2016.
The Hoover Institution offered the fellowship to assist “(Dr. Ling’s) research at the Hoover Institution of Libraries and Archives regarding her research project ‘Sward Blue: A Chiang-Kai-shek’s Man’,” according to the appointment letter from the Hoover Institution. Professor Ling’s research aspires to explore the currently under-explored areas of the Nationalist history in China from the 1930s to 1949, utilizing the newly unclassified records of Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek, T. V. Soong Papers, Kuomintang Project, etc. at the Hoover Institution Archives.