Chinese Studies

This database contains over four thousand Ming documents and more than three hundred thousand volumes of Qing archival materials.

Full-text searchable database containing local archives from Huizhou (Anhui Province) 徽州文书 and Shicang (Zhejiang Province) 石仓文书. Types of archives include contracts, account books, correspondence, legal documents, genealogy, and papers related to examination, education, medicine, and folk arts.

Full-text searchable database of judicial documents sourced from the Jiangjin District Archive (Chongqing). Contains over 1,800 volumes, 120,000 pages of litigation files from 1911 to 1949.

This database is a collection of rare primary source materials from Mao-era China. For a full description, please see this webpage.

This database explores the cultural and trading relationships that emerged between America, China and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. It includes manuscripts, rare printed sources, visual images, objects, and maps from international libraries and archives.

A compilation of 4,204 rare China-related historical documents carefully selected from three series within the India Office Records now held at the British library: the Political and Secret Department Records, the Burma Office records, and the Records of the Military Department.

Digitized from the British Colonial Office records grouped under the CO 129 Series titled “War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Hong Kong, Original Correspondence,” the collection consists of dispatches and correspondence between the governors of Hong Kong and the Colonial Office, as well as letters and telegrams of other government departments and organizations such as the Foreign Office, Home Office, and War Offices.

FBI File on Owen Lattimore || China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1930-1939: Part 1&2 || China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1940-1944 || China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1949 || Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955 || Country Intelligence Reports/State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research Reports: China || Policing the Shanghai International Settlement, 1894-1945 || Political, Economic, and Military Conditions in China: Reports and Correspondence of the U.S. Military Intelligence Division, 1918-1941 || Chinese Maritime Customs Service: The Customs’ Gazette, 1869-1913 || Shanghai Municipal Council: The Municipal Gazette, 1908-1940 || The Minutes of the Shanghai Municipal Council, 1854-1943 (The minutes taken from July 1854 to December 1906 are handwritten while the rest are typewritten; can be used in combination with the printed version: 工部局董事会会议录 / 上海市档案馆编; 上海共同租界工部局年報) || Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China Relations, 1989-1993

This database contains: (1) China through Western Eyes; (2) China Inland Mission, 1865-1951; (3) Asian Economic History.

Includes 30 audiovisual testimonies of survivors of the 1937-38 Nanjing Massacre. These testimonies are in Mandarin and were conducted in Nanjing, China through a partnership with the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall.
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Located in Nanjing, the Second Historical Archive of China houses massive body of Republic-period documents (1912-1949). The archival materials regarding the Beiyang government period (1912-1928) have been made openly searchable and accessible as of March 2015.