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The complete Foreign Office Files concerning China, Hong Kong and Taiwan for the period 1919-1980.
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A variety of material types are included, such as British diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, transcriptions, press reports, meeting minutes, analyses, biographies of prominent personalities, propaganda, posters, and maps.
Queen's has access to six sections of content in this collection:
1919-1929: Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International
1930-1937: The Long March, civil war in China and the Manchurian Crisis
1938-1948: Open Door, Japanese war and the seeds of communist victory
1949-1956: The Communist revolution
1957-1966: The Great Leap Forward
1967-1980: The Cultural Revolution
Date coverage: 1919-1980