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"Foreign Office Files, China: 1919-1948" is a comprehensive account of the history, society and culture of China during that period, originating from the valuable collections of the British National Archives. This database contains the most important records of the British Foreign Office on China, Hong Kong and Taiwan from 1919 to 1948.
The database has a wide variety of sources, including government memoranda, official letters, non-official letters (from commercial companies, legal representatives, and prosecutors, etc.), maps, court case records, conference, investigation or study reports, personal, local and organizational profiles, economic statistics and analysis, Chinese language documents, etc. The database content includes not only titles, bibliographies, and dates, but also key people, places, and topics in the text. All content can be full-text search, easy for readers to reference research work.