Sources for Modern and Contemporary China and Taiwan

Sources Related to Foreign Relations of the United States

British Foreign Relations Documents

• Political Relations Between China, the United States and other Countries, 1910-1929
• Political, Economic, and Military Conditions in China: Reports & Correspondence of U.S. Military Intelligence, 1918-1941
• General George C. Marshall’s Mission to China, 1945-1947
• Records of the U.S. Information Service in China: Chinese Press Reviews and Summaries, 1944-1950
• Economic Cooperation Administration’s Relief Mission in Post-War China, 1946-1948
• CIA Papers on China and the Soviet Union, 1953-1973
• Records of the National Council for United States-China Trade 1973-1983
• Foreign Office Files for China All of the British Foreign Office's files on China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, 1919-1980
• Nineteenth-Century Documents on European Diplomacy with Asia
• German Foreign Relations and Military Activities in China, 1919-1935
• 2013 PRC Criminal Procedure Law and Related Regulations (Yale University Law Library)

US State Department Files on China

• Records on Political Relations Between China, the U.S. and Other Countries, 1910-1929
• Records on Political Relations and Conflict between Republican China and Imperial Japan, 1930-1939
• China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1940-1944
• State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research Reports: China, 1941-1947
• Country Intelligence Reports on China, 1941-1947
• Records of the US State Department Division of Chinese Affairs, 1944-1961
• Records of the US State Department Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955
• Confidential US State Department Central Files, Asia, 1960-1969
• Subject Files of US State Department’s Office of the Republic of China Affairs (1951-1978)

English language Mainland Chinese Newspaper access points: 

• Chinese Historical Newspapers - Full text of 22 late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century newspapers published in China
• China Press
• North China Daily News
• North China Herald
• North China Desk Hong List
• Current Digest of the Chinese Press 
• PressReader provides e-access to current newspapers and magazines, though in traditional print layout rather than website format. English publications include:
  • South China Morning Post
  • China Daily (both Mainland and Hong Kong)
  • Shanghai Daily
  • Global Times
  • Chinese Social Sciences Today

The following links are for commonly used databases that amalgamate scholarly literature in one powerful platform. The descriptions next to each link provide further information.