Introduction
Research Fellow Chien-shiung Wu (1940–1992), born in Xinhui, Guangdong, graduated from the Department of History, National Taiwan University, in 1966. After obtaining his master’s degree in 1970, he continued his studies in the United States, where he earned his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh in 1982. After returning to Taiwan, Wu first held a teaching position at the Department of History, Tung Hai University, before transferring to the Institute of Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences (the predecessor to the present-day Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences), Academia Sinica, for research. Wu’s specialty largely encompasses the history of overseas Chinese and maritime history, with his more representative works including The Chinese in Pittsburgh: A Changing Minority Community in the United States (in English) and Overseas Chinese Migration and Chinese Society (in Chinese), among others.
This fonds was donated to the Archives in 2022 by family member IHP Research Fellow Chao-jung Chen. Contents primarily consist of Chien-shiung Wu’s research materials on overseas Chinese communities, such as research notes, newspaper clippings, research cards and slides, dissertations, publications, bibliographies, and oral interview transcripts. Themes therein include Chinese laborers, overseas Chinese affairs, clans and families, associations and guild halls, Chinatowns, illegal immigration, migration, human trafficking, and social movements. While geographically centered on the United States, contents extend to Europe, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America. This fonds thus documents Wu’s research orientation and source materials, serving as essential records for examining twentieth-century overseas Chinese communities.
This fonds was donated to the Archives in 2022 by family member IHP Research Fellow Chao-jung Chen. Contents primarily consist of Chien-shiung Wu’s research materials on overseas Chinese communities, such as research notes, newspaper clippings, research cards and slides, dissertations, publications, bibliographies, and oral interview transcripts. Themes therein include Chinese laborers, overseas Chinese affairs, clans and families, associations and guild halls, Chinatowns, illegal immigration, migration, human trafficking, and social movements. While geographically centered on the United States, contents extend to Europe, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America. This fonds thus documents Wu’s research orientation and source materials, serving as essential records for examining twentieth-century overseas Chinese communities.