Foreign Office, Consulate and Legation Files, China is a digitized collection of correspondence from the British legation and consulates in the cities of imperial and republican China, documenting, from a primarily Western perspective, Sino-British relations and Chinese history. These digitized primary sources cover topics such as politics, diplomacy, international relations, trade and the economy, military conflict, public health, missionaries, migration, war, and revolution.
Rutgers has access to the following modules on this platform:
1830-1895: Wars and Treaties
Many materials in this collection are written from a colonial perspective, and some items in the collection may include views or terminology now considered outdated, biased, or offensive.
