This digital collection makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. Allows access to eye-witness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries, annual reviews, reports and anlyses, economic assessments, and synopses on Chinese personalities.
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