Introduction
Ming-tung Chiu (courtesy name Zijing, 1913–2004), born in Yongjia, Zhejiang, was the second brother of General Ching-chuan Chiu (1902–1949). Ming-tung Chiu graduated from the Department of Railway Management, Chiao Tung University, but after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, he joined the military and engaged in military logistics starting in 1938. Following the conclusion of the war in 1945, he was appointed county head commissioner of Yiliang County, Yunnan, and later transferred to serve under the same title for Dali County in 1948, dedicating himself to local self-governance. After relocating to Taiwan, Chiu worked at the National Property Administration, Ministry of Finance, successively serving as the division head of the Southern and the Central Region Branches. He participated in the formulation and revision of the National Property Act before retiring in 1977.
This fonds, totally 306 items, had originally been organized by Ming-tung Chiu himself and donated to the Archives by family member Chiu Chi-liang. Contents include his personal documents, official missives from various government agencies, resumes, correspondences, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings of interviews; as well as orders concerning his head commissioner work in Yiliang and Dali, newspaper clippings, documents related to a fraud case regarding the identity of General Qiu Qingquan, and a collection of books on the Battle of the Yunnan-Burma Road and the Second Sino-Japanese War. The fonds of Ming-tung Chiu thus comprehensively documents his political and administrative experiences, family developments, and local governance, serving as essential research materials for the history of the Second Sino-Japanese War and military family histories.
This fonds, totally 306 items, had originally been organized by Ming-tung Chiu himself and donated to the Archives by family member Chiu Chi-liang. Contents include his personal documents, official missives from various government agencies, resumes, correspondences, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings of interviews; as well as orders concerning his head commissioner work in Yiliang and Dali, newspaper clippings, documents related to a fraud case regarding the identity of General Qiu Qingquan, and a collection of books on the Battle of the Yunnan-Burma Road and the Second Sino-Japanese War. The fonds of Ming-tung Chiu thus comprehensively documents his political and administrative experiences, family developments, and local governance, serving as essential research materials for the history of the Second Sino-Japanese War and military family histories.