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The following lists were kindly made available by Professor Kuo Ting-yee, of the Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan. I - MAJOR INSTITUTIONS AND COLLECTIONS ON MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CHINA IN TAIWAN Group I Collections and Institutions on the Ch'ing Dynasty and the Republic. The Collections in this group are made up with government archives, bulletins, gazettes, and other papers. 1. Government Archives a. Notable among them is the Diplomatic Archives, which are in the custody of the Institute of Modern History. There are about 220 cases, for which we do not yet have a complete catalog. They include diplomatic archives from 1861 down to 1926. About one tenth of them have been compiled and published by the Institute of Modern History. Diplomatic documents after 1927 may also be made public, though they are still kept at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The ministry has a plan to declassify them and make them accessible. Part of the SinoJapanese Diplomatic Archives (1926-1945) has been published by the Committee on the Compilation of Documents on the 50th Founding Anniversary of the Republic of China. - 11 - b.The Economic Archives were given the Institute of Modern History last year, dating from around 1905 to 1945, but over 80 per cent of them are the archives of the National Government, especially of the period between the Northern Expedition and the Sino- Japanese war. We are now making a preliminary catalog. They include documents on industry, agriculture, mining, natural resources, and irrigation. The Institute of Modern History has been sorting them out and expects to have a general idea of what they contain before the end of this year. c.The Ministry of Communications has about 500 cases of archives, dating from 1910 to 1945. They are on railway, highway , navigation, aviation, and postal service. These are not at the Institute of Modern History, but are accessible. The Research Institute of Communications under the ministry has about 1, 000 titles of local history, mostly on North China provinces, though they are now in the custody of the National War College. d.The Ministry of Education has about 30 cases, dating from 1905 to recent years. They are not of any special importance, but the materials on Chinese students abroad may be of some interest. e.The Ministry of the Interior has lost most of its early archives, and is in possession only of the documents after 1941. But the ministry has a complete run of government bulletins since 1912. It also has more than 500 kinds of local history and maps of the Republican period. - 12 - f.The Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission has some archives, but not too numerous. It is now making a catalogue of the documents after 1937. g.The Chinese Navy Headquarters has about 100 cases of archives, and is now engaged in making a catalog. Parts of them are accessible on request. 2.The National Palace Museum - Part of the vast Chun Chi Ch'u (Council of State) archives of the Ch'ing Dynasty is in the custody of the National Palace Museum. There are, however, only about 60 cases in Taiwan, a mere fraction of the vast archives that were kept in the imperial palace in Peking. Each box has about 5, 000 articles of official papers. They are mostly of the Ch'ien Lung to Hsuan T'ung eras (17361911 ). There are, however, another 150 cases of source materials that were collected for the compilation of a Ch'ing history. They have never been made public before, and we don't know exactly what they contain. But I am sure they are of great value to the study of Ch'ing history. The National Palace Museum is now compiling a catalog. 3.The Kuomintang Archives - The Archives hold one of the most comprehensive collections on historical materials on the Kuomintang and the Republic. The collections include the publications of the early years of the Kuomintang, rare journals of the first decades of this century , original documents, private papers and photographs of first-rate - 13 - importance to the study of Kuomintang history. For the past two years, the Institute of Modern History has cooperated with the Archives in making...

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