中国的口述史研究刚刚诞生,即遇到国民党政权在大陆迅速崩溃,国民党丢失了大陆各地的极大部分档案。东亚剧变立即将美国口述史研究的注意力吸引过来,最先行动的是哥伦比亚大学东亚研究所。1958年,富兰克林·胡和马丁·韦尔布教授设立了一个项目,旨在记录1911年——1949年期间国民党的杰出领导人的回忆,以弥补档案资料的缺失。其中包括国民党驻联合国大使、驻 The oral history research in China was just born. That is, in the face of the rapid collapse of the Kuomintang regime in the Mainland, the Kuomintang has lost a large part of its archives from all over the mainland. The upheaval in East Asia immediately drew the attention of oral history research in the United States. The first move was at the East Asia Institute at Columbia University. In 1958, Professors Franklin Hu and Martin Verb set up a project to document the memory of the Kuomintang’s illustrious leaders from 1911 to 1949 to make up for the lack of archival material. Including the KMT ambassador to the United Nations