East Asia: China

Archives and publications of the Chinese central government, from the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

Archives and publications of the Communist Party of China including information from official organizations, i.e., the People's Daily Press, the Party Literature Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, the National People's Congress, and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Primary source materials for the study of trade and cultural exchange between North America and China, as well as East Asia and the Pacific, from the 18th to early 20th centuries. Documents include accounts, business records, correspondence, ephemera, journals, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, illustrations, photographs, and printed books.

Correspondence, illustrations, maps, official papers, periodicals, personal accounts and manuscripts, photographs, and printed books documenting China’s interaction with the West spanning from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Documents relate to the 1792-1794 Macartney Embassy, the Opium Wars, the opening of Hong Kong, missions in China, the Boxer War, the 1911 revolution, the Communist Revolution led by Mao, and the Great Leap Forward.

Newspapers from over twenty cities in China published between 1912 and 1949, digitized as part of a Global Press Archive (GPA) CRL Charter Alliance project.