Chinese Studies *

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The Asian Studies section includes several China-related collections, such as China: Records of the U.S. Department of State (1930-1949), General George C. Marshall's Mission to China (1945-1947), etc.

Includes a reprint collection of China Political Reports, 1911-1960 & 1961-1970, Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941, Shanghai: Political and Economic Reports, 1842-1943, and Taiwan Political and Economic Reports, 1861-1960 from the National Archives in UK.

Explore an extensive range of archival material connected to the trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. Manuscript sources, rare printed texts, visual images, objects and maps document this fascinating history. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

Spanning three centuries (c. 1750-1929), this resource makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library'€™s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. The resource is full-text searchable, allowing for the collection to be comprehensively explored and studied. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

Includes: 1) Diplomacy and Political Secrets 1869-1950 (historical documents selected from three series within the India Office Records held at the British library); 2) Hong Kong, Britain and China 1841–1951 (British government documents on colonial Hong Kong); 3) Imperial China and the West part I, 1815–1881 (FO 17 series of British Foreign Office Files held at the UK National Archives); 4)The Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals collection (17 English-language periodicals published in or about China from 1817 to 1949); 5) Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China 1854–1949.

Sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

Contains the full-text of declassified government documents categorized into over 40 collections, detailing U.S. foreign relations, world events and policy decisions from post-World War II through the 21st century. Collections include: glossaries, chronologies, bibliographies, overviews, and photographs. Click here to see the full list of collections.

East India Company offers access to a collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1600 to 1947.
The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

Complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in this period. This resource is offered by Adam Matthew.

From government-led population drives during the early nineteenth century through to mass steamship travel, Migration to New Worlds showcases unique primary source material recounting the many and varied personal experiences of 350 years of migration. Explore British Colonial Office files on emigration, diaries and travel journals, ship logs and plans, printed literature, objects, watercolors, and oral histories supplemented by carefully selected secondary research aids. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

Includes a substantial number of primary sources related to China, such as American War Production Mission in China, CIA records and research reports on China, U.S. State Department Central Files concerning China, Nixon's 1972 Trip to China, etc.

The files in this primary source collection cover Asian immigration, especially Japanese and Chinese migration, to California, Hawaii, and other states; Mexican immigration to the U.S. from 1906-1930, and European immigration.

Revolution and Protest Online explores the protest movements, revolutions, and civil wars that have transformed societies and human experience from the 18th century through the present. Organized around more than thirty events and areas, representing a variety of time periods, regions, and topics, this collection will include at completion 175 hours of video, 100,000 pages of printed materials.