Foreign Office Files for China consists of digitized files from the British Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) regarding China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Rutgers has access to 6 sections of content in this collection:
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
A variety of material types are included, such as British diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, transcriptions, press reports, meeting minutes, analyses, biographies of prominent personalities, propaganda, posters, and maps.
