Grants and Acquisitions

Abstract

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired the papers of Tang Hon Cheung. Cheung was born in 1892 in the Taishan area near Kaiping, Guangdong Province, China. Despite the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which drastically restricted Chinese immigration to the United States, Tang settled in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1924, among a vibrant community of other Chinese immigrants. This collection, an epitome of Chinese immigration to the United States, features rarely seen photographs documenting the Tang family and Nationalist Chinese pilots who received training in Arizona, along with family correspondence and historical papers. These materials provide valuable supplements to Hoover’s existing collections on the history of Chinese Americans such as the personal papers of Richard A. Cheu, Pardee Lowe, Renee Lym Robertson, Iris Chang, and Zhou Shilin.