Chinese Studies

The national repository of Ming-Qing documents provides finding aids and a browsable catalog. The website is available only in Chinese. For an overview in English of the collections, see the Introduction pdf by Professor Eugenio Menegon at the Boston University.

This archive holds records of the central regimes and their subordinate organs during the Republican Era of China (1912-1949).
1. Records of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China (Nanjing) and the People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China (Fujian), 1912-1934
2. Records of the Beiyang [Peiyang] Government, 1912-1928
3. Records of the National Government of the Republic of China (Nanjing), 1927-1949
4. Records of Japan's Puppet States, 1931-1945
5. Records of Famous Persons, including Chiang Kai-Shek, Feng Yuxiang, Cai Yuanpei, Zhang Jingjiang, Ding Wenjiang, and Gu Weijun.

The national administrative agency is responsible for historical records of the state dating back to imperial times in China. Its collection includes government documents since the May Fourth Movement. It also holds the Communist Party records. The website is available only in Chinese. For its historical background, missions, collection holdings, etc. in English, click the following link: The State Archives Bureau.

This library is a national bibliographic center, the repository of the nation's publications, and a national center that preserves and conserves ancient books.

A national institution responsible for the conservation, management and research of the Mogao Grottoes (a world cultural heritage site at Dunhuang), the Yulin Grottoes (a nationally protected key cultural heritage site at Guazhou), and the Western Thousand-Buddha Grottoes at Dunhuang.

A multi-lingual portal that provides access to the Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP) Collections (images, text, and sound and video files) that is browsable by subject, institution, and time period.

The nation's top-level organization in charge of recording and researching national history. It acquires, catalogs, assembles, edits, , exhibits, and preserves historical documents.

The national library of Taiwan that acquires, catalogs, and preserves national publications for government, research and general public use.