Database Trial: China and the Modern World – Diplomacy and Political Secrets Product Sheet 1860-1950

The Trial Period is closed for this resource (Mar 5, 2020)
Description: 

Comprises a collection of China-related historical records, selected from three sections of a series titled “The India Office Records” held at The British Library: The Political and Secret Department records, the Burma Office records, and the Military Department records. These records—in the form of notes, accounts, reports, correspondence, intelligence diaries, schemes, memoranda, pamphlets, handbooks, gazetteers, and maps—reflect the security concerns of British India. The frontier regions of China bordering British India were considered of strategic importance. This is also why a large amount of material coming from Xinjiang (Chinese Turkestan), Tibet and Yunnan were collected by the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, Military Department, and the Burma Office.

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