Grand Secretariat Archives (Academia Sinica)  

Type

Collection

Collection Identifier

c0501

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Description

There are approximately 310,000 items in the Grand Secretariat Archives at the Institute of History and Philology. These include imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute documents, examination questions, examination papers, rosters of successful examination candidates, documents from the offices of the Grand Secretariat, documents from the offices for book compilation, and old documents from Mukden. Memorials make up the bulk of these documents. The archives contain valuable source materials for institutional, social and economic historians. They record general administrative activities and legal cases, many of which cannot be found in Ch’ing legal compendia.  

Size

  

Language

Chinese   

Item Type

   

Item Format

  

Rights

link

Access Rights

  

Accrual Method

  

Accrual Periodicity

  

Accrual Policy

  

Custodial History

   

Audience

  

Subject

Archives

Spatial Coverage

  

Temporal Coverage

明代;Qing Dynasty  

Dates Collection Accumulated

   

Dates Items Created

   

Collector

  

Owner

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica  

Is Located At

Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica  

Is Accessed Via

link: http://archive.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/mct/

Sub-Collection

  

Super-Collection

Archives  

Catalogueor Index

  

Associated collection

The Ch’ing Dynasty Historical Personnel Biographies and National Historiography Institute Files Biographies Packages, Manuscripts Digital Archives Database(Department of Rare Books and Documents, National Palace Museum); The Digitization of the Ch'ing Archives at the National Palace Museum (National Palace Museum)  

Associated Publication