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BAIQUAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 拜 泉 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. Holdings: 31,730 juan, including 13,277 juan of current documentary, financial, personnel and photo archives; also 7,765 ce of printed materials. DAGZQS reports 18,453 juan of historical archives, while the gazetteer reports (in 1983) 17,548 juan of historical archives from before 1945 (including late Qing, republican and Manchukuo records); and 115 juan of revolutionary history archives (1945-49). Countywide, there were also 6,988 juan of technical archives, 9,900 juan of archives from communes, 1,350 juan of archives on farming, forestry and pasturing, and 29,810 juan of archives from brigades kept in various archives offices. Open.
SOURCE: DAGZQS: 436; Baiquan xianzhi, 1988: 337, UCB/CCSL.
BEI’AN COUNTY ARCHIVES 北 安 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. Total holdings unclear. In 1982, 14 communes and 145 brigades had established archives offices; plus 68 technical archives offices countywide in 1980.
SOURCE: Bei’an xianzhi 1993: 479, UCB/CCSL.
BOLI COUNTY ARCHIVES 勃 利 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, ceased work during CR, resumed operations in 1970. 1985: 20,175 juan, including 12,794 juan of permanent archives; printed materials: 3,851 ce. From 1962, 2,244 juan of worthless archives were eliminated.
SOURCE: Boli xianzhi 1992: 361-362, UCB/CCSL.
DAQING CITY ARCHIVES 大 慶 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1981. Holdings: 25,000 juan of documentary, technical and city construction archives reflecting the special character of this old-producing area. In an effort to save valuable historical materials, Daqing daily and Daqing zhanbao (1960-85) have been microfilmed. Open.
SOURCE: Daqing shizhi, 1988: 721-722, UCB/CCSL.
DEDU COUNTY ARCHIVES 德 都 縣 檔 案 館
Before establishment in 1963, over 3,000 juan of archives were kept in Bei’an county archives; disbanded in 1966-70. In 1969, because of the tense relationship between USSR and China over border issues, over 2,000 juan of archives and printed materials were destroyed. In 1975, 1,287 juan of republican archives were transferred from the Provincial Archives, of which, 603 juan were returned to Bei’an county archives in 1983. Current holdings unclear (though some 3000 juan of records from 1966-73 in 1973); 2,336 ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Dedu xianzhi 1994: 852, UCB/CCSL.
FANGZHENG COUNTY ARCHIVES 方 正 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1990: 11,811 juan of PRC archives; 49 juan of revolutionary history archives; 257 juan of photo archives; 6024 juan / ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Songhuajiang diquzhi 1995: 936, UCB/CCSL
HAILIN COUNTY ARCHIVES 海 林 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1963. 1985: 16,497 juan in 9 quanzong; 2,824 ce of printed materials. In 1964, 1,374 juan of archives from 1948-56 were catalogued. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Hailin xianzhi 1990: 525-526, UCB/CCSL.
HEIHE PREFECTURAL ARCHIVES 黑 河 地 區 檔 案 館
Est. 1964. Most Qing archives of the local commander were taken by the Russians in 1900; and the Japanese destroyed most Manchukuo archives in August 1945. 1992: there were 141,926 juan of archives in 8 prefectural and county archives, including 27,817 juan of historical archives; 466,872 juan of special archives, including accounts (398,186 juan), statistics (27,990 juan), lawsuits (37,387 juan),education (1998 juan), statistics(?) (667 juan), news (644 juan); 11,779 photos and 722 tapes and videos. By the end of 1976, 27,000 juan of old regime archives were received and roughly 6,000 juan catalogued in Heihe Prefecture. In 1986-87, about 500 juan from Kuma’erlu xieling gongshu (庫 瑪 爾 路 協 領 公 署 ) were returned to the prefecture archives. In efforts to preserve historical archives, 19,717 juan had been saved in the whole prefecture by 1988.
SOURCE: Heihe diquzhi 1996: 902-905, UCB/CCSL.
HUANAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 樺 南 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. Holdings: 10,149 juan of documentary archives (1946-1981). Also some historical archives, technical archives, and videos; over 3000 ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Huanan xianzhi 1991: 621. UCB/CCSL.
HULAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 呼 蘭 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, during CR, 3,914 juan were destroyed when the "rebel" faction turned "black materials" over to a local paper factory. 1987: 13,889 juan in 23 quanzong (1911-85); 1990: 25,073 juan in 23 quanzong, including 2,423 (or 2,432?) juan of old regime archives (1911-32). Contemporary documentary archives come from the CCP county committee, government, assembly, political consultative conference, and their subordinate departments, women’s federation, workers’ union. Also included are technical archives, census archives, personnel archives and those from banks and post-offices. Open.
SOURCE: Hulan xianzhi 1994: 636-638, UCB/CCSL.
HULIN COUNTY ARCHIVES 虎 林 獻 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. Holdings (DAGZQS): 4,287 juan of Qing archives, 2,844 juan of republican archives, 33,688 juan of current documentary archives. The gazetteer indicates that 7,250 juan of historical archives date from 1905-1933; and also notes 230 juan of (revolutionary history?) archives from 1945-48. Contemporary archives include surveys of natural resources, climate and forests; census records; histories of state farms, and party history materials. Photo archives include 7 volumes of photos of CR factional struggle and border conflicts. Open.
SOURCE: DAGZQS: 436; Hulin xianzhi 1992: 659-665, UCB/CCSL.
HUZHONG DISTRICT ARCHIVES OFFICE 呼 中 區 檔 案 科
Est. 1984. 1990: there were 71,612 juan of archives in Huzhong district, dating from the establishment of the Huzhong Forestry Company in 1965. Records include 7,990 juan of documentary, 30,783 juan of accounts, 615 juan of construction, 653 juan of production and management, 722 juan of technical, 333 juan of discipline inspection, 645 juan of public security and 27,249 juan of other archives. The documentary archives include 1 quanzong from 1965-69, 2 quanzong from 1970-83, and 18 quanzong from after 1984. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Huzhong quzhi 1993: 497-500, UCB/CCSL.
JIAMUSI CITY ARCHIVES 佳 目 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, stopped work during CR, restored in 1979. 1989: over 46,000 juan in 133 quanzong, including 265 juan of revolutionary history archives, 12,426 juan of archives from abolished departments, 7,121 juan of special archives and 72 cassettes tapes and videos; 15,000 ce of printed materials. Open.
SOURCE: Jiamusi shizhi 1996: 1077-1078, UCB/CCSL.
JIDONG COUNTY ARCHIVES 雞 東 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1965. 1985: 16,445 juan in 23 quanzong, from the CCP county committee, government, assembly, workers’ union, communist youth league, women’s federation, poor peasants’ association, Socialist Education Movement, and 15 xiang and zhen, including documentary, technical, census, soil survey archives, plus tapes and videos; 3,773 ce of printed materials. The archives have edited materials on major events, economic development and natural disasters. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Jidong xianzhi, 1989: 281-282, UCB/CCSL.
JIXI CITY ARCHIVES 雞 西 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, ceased functions during CR, after several reorganizations, became Jixi city archives bureau in 1973. 1985: 18,261 juan, including 87 juan of special archives; 300 tapes and videos; 6,000 ce of printed materials. The Japanese destroyed all records of Jining (雞 寧 ) county in 1945. In 1956, 1,672 items of revolutionary history archives from after 1945 were collected; and in 1973, Cultural Revolution materials were organized. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Jixi shizhi 1996: 969-972, UCB/CCSL.
JIXIAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 集 賢 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, disbanded during CR, resumed in 1973. 1981: 12,278 juan in 33 quanzong, including 155 juan of historical archives (most dating from the establishment of the county in 1946) in 5 quanzong; 1,938 ce of printed materials. Open.
SOURCE: Jixian xianzhi, 1985: 447-449, UCB/CCSL.
KEDONG COUNTY ARCHIVES 克 東 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1980: 12,599 juan in 45 quanzong, from the CCP county committee, government and their subordinate offices. An additional 6,000 juan were kept in 102 brigades archives offices in 1983. Catalogues.
SOURCE: Kedong xianzhi, 1987: 276, UCB/CCSL
LINDIAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 林 甸 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. Holdings: 14,364 juan. Included are historical archives of 2,123 juan in 4 quanzong (1912-33); revolutionary history archives of 276 juan in 13 quanzong (1946-49); archives from disbanded offices of 1,154 juan in 20 quanzong (1948-78); current archives: 11,964 juan in 16 quanzong (1950-81); personnel archives: 3,000 juan; and 370 juan from successive political movements; also printed materials: over 9,500 ce.
SOURCE: Lindian xianzhi, 1988: 252, UCB/CCSL.
LONGJIANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 龍 江 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. Holdings: 32,000 juan in 77 quanzong, including 12,000 juan of republican archives and 3,000 juan of special archives; 12,000 ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: DAGZQS: 436; Longjiang xianzhi 1991: 573, UCB/CCSL.
LUOBEI COUNTY ARCHIVES 蘿 北 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, stopped work during CR, resumed operations in 1972. Total holdings unclear, but old regime archives are included. Printed materials: 3,033 ce. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Luobei xianzhi 1992: 696-697, UCB/CCSL.
MISHAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 密 山 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, disbanded during CR, resumed operations in 1972. 1985: 23,629 juan, including 10,529 juan of permanent archives and 2,566 juan of long-term archives. In 1983, 2,332 juan of republican archives were catalogued, but 1985 holdings of pre-1949 archives (perhaps 1945-49 period?) were listed as 88 juan, PRC archives as 10,909 juan. All early archives were destroyed during a Soviet attack and occupation of 1929; and Manchukuo archives were destroyed by the Japanese in 1945. Open.
SOURCE: Mishan xianzhi 1993: 772-773, UCB/CCSL.
MOHE COUNTY ARCHIVES 漠 河 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1986. 1988: 2,057 juan of republican archives; 4,332 juan of PRC documentary and meeting archives; 197 juan of scientific archives; 2,291 ce of printed materials. The archives are on organization, personnel, propaganda, national security, foreign affairs, militia, public affairs and environmental protection.
SOURCE: Mohe xianzhi 1993: 713-714, UCB/CCSL
MUDANJIANG CITY ARCHIVES 牡 丹 江 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1962. During CR, over 21,000 juan of documentary and lawsuits archives from 1947-69 were destroyed by the Municipal Court and Prosecutor. In 1985, there were 2,724 books, 4,671 periodicals and over 10 newspapers, including Hejiang daily, Songjiang daily, New Heilongjiang, Dongbei daily, Chenzhong, Chenbao, Jiuguo shibao, Rexue daily, Hankou minguobao and other local historical materials in the Municipal Archives. Total holdings of archives unclear. In 1985, 158,000 juan in 117 quanzong of archives and 29,000 ce of printed materials were kept in the city and 8 county comprehensive archives. Open.
SOURCE: Mudanjiang shizhi 1993: 1367-1369, UCB/CCSL.
MULAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 木 蘭 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, ceased work during CR, resumed operations in 1972. 1985: 4,849 juan in 20 quanzong, including 3,490 juan (1990: 3,380 juan) in 1 quanzong of republican archives (1920-1931) related to laws and regulations, rural pacification, opium-suppression, and anti-bribery; 383 juan in 8 quanzong of revolutionary history archives (1945-49) on land reform, conscription, agriculture, industry, trade, education and public health. 1990: 18,960 juan of PRC archives from the CCP county committee, government, people’s congress and their subordinate departments; also 3,631 juan of photo archives and 4,780 juan /ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open. Countywide, there were 30,000 juan of archives in 24 archives offices in various units in 1985.
SOURCE: Mulan xianzhi, 1989: 349-350, Songhuajiang diquzhi 1995:936, UCB/CCSL.
SHANGZHI CITY ARCHIVES 尚 志 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1990: 8,064 juan of historical archives; 220 juan of revolutionary history archives; 21,858 juan of PRC archives; 290 juan of photo archives, and 5487 juan / ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Songhuajiang diquzhi 1995:936, UCB/CCSL
SONGHUAJIANG PREFECTURAL ARCHIVES 松 花 江 地 區 檔 案 館
Est. as archives offices of the CCP Songhuajiang prefectural committee, disbanded during CR, resumed operations as prefectural archives in 1970 (elsewhere: est 1982). Although the prefectural archives were not established until 1982, the Songhuajiang area is well known for its rich collections of historical, especially the Qing, archives. Five county archives are mentioned in Ye and Esherick: Bayan, Binxian, Shangcheng, Wucheng and Yanshou. The other county archives in Songhuajiang prefecture are Fangzheng, Mulan, Shangzhi, Tonghe, for which separate entries appear here. The prefectural gazetteer mentions written introductions to all the county archives, but we have not seen them. The detailed contents of those county archives are not clear. As to the prefectural archives, its own collection started only from 1965, and most of its 15,555 juan (1990) of archives are from the CCP district committee, the government and their subordinate offices. It also holds 1,229 juan of photo archives and 6728 juan / ce of printed materials. Holdings kept in the prefectural and county archives in 1990 total 177,989 juan of documentary archives including:
Historical archives: 100,307 juan, including 1,492 juan of revolutionary history archives. The earliest one, dating from 1810, is kept in the Shuangcheng city archives where 7,510 juan of historical archives are kept (1810-1938), including 50,459 juan (?) of Qing archives and 2,034 juan of archives in Manchu language.
Contemporary archives: 177,989 juan of documentary archives and 19,313 juan of special archives; 120 tapes and videos; 7,269 photos.
Printed materials: 45,995 ce, including Dongbei daily, Songjiang daily and other valuable historical materials.
Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Songhuajiang diquzhi 1995: 930-939, UCB/CCSL
SUIHUA PREFECTURAL ARCHIVES 綏 化 地 區 檔 案 館
Est. 1956 as archives offices of the CCP Suihua Prefectural committee, after several reorganizations, became prefectural archives bureau in 1973 and combined with the Prefectural Archives in 1981. 1990: 285,492 juan kept in the prefectural and 12 county archives, including 1,831 juan of revolutionary history archives and 5,233 juan of old regime archives; 278,428 juan of contemporary archives and 133,484 ce of printed materials. There were also 440,215 juan of documentary archives, 135,573 juan of technical archives, 757,265 juan of archives from xiang, zhen, and brigades, 399,414 juan of archives from companies, schools, factories and enterprises and 1,449,772 juan of special archives on taxes, soil surveys, census, lawsuits and other matters kept in various archives offices in Suihua prefecture. In 1969, 13,464 juan of archives were considered as unimportant and destroyed. When archives were moved for safe storage after the 1969 border incidents with the Soviet Union, many archives were damaged by moisture or lost. In 1971, Wangkui county archives selected only 164 items from 10,688 items of republican archives accepted from Liaoning archives and destroyed the rest. Open.
SOURCE: Suihua diquzhi 1995: 1226-1237, UCB/CCSL.
SUIHUA CITY ARCHIVES 綏 化 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. Holdings: 22,000 juan in 63 quanzong, including (1982): 281 juan of historical archives; 137 juan of revolutionary history archives; plus 1,500 ce of printed materials of 21 types. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: DAGZQS: 435-436; Suihua xianzhi, 1985: 266-267, UCB/CCSL.
SUILING COUNTY ARCHIVES 綏 棱 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1985: 20,031 juan, including 7,464 juan of permanent archives and 6,113 juan of long-term archives; 1,449 juan of Socialist Education Movement archives; plus technical archives. Catalogues. Indexes. Open.
SOURCE: Suiling xianzhi, 1988: 322, UCB/CCSL.
TAILAI COUNTY ARCHIVES 泰 來 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, disbanded during CR, restored in 1973. 1985: 11,518 juan in 14 quanzong, including 48 juan of revolutionary history archives (1946-49); documentary, special and personnel archives; printed materials. The archives has edited materials on local party and administrative history, natural disasters and local leaders. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Tailai xianzhi 1992: 386-388, UCB/CCSL.
TANGYUAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 湯 原 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1990: 17,611 juan in 37 quanzong, including documentary, technical, tapes and videos and special archives. Catalogues. Open. Most records from 1967-72 were lost.
SOURCE: Tangyuan xianzhi 1992: 792-793, UCB/CCSL.
TONGHE COUNTY ARCHIVES 通 河 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, ceased functions during CR, restored in 1980. 1985: 20,045 juan in 11 quanzong. 1990: 8,652 juan of historical archives; 80 juan of revolutionary history archives; 13,608 juan of PRC archives; 724 juan of photo archives and 1,897 juan / ce of printed materials. Publications include materials on agricultural yields in Tonghe before 1949. Open.
SOURCE: Tonghe xianzhi 1990: 441-442; Songhuajiang diquzhi 1995:936, UCB/CCSL.
ZHAODONG CITY ARCHIVES 肇 東 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. Holdings: 24,366 juan in 12 quanzong and 8,542 ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open.
1. Republican archives: 939 juan from the Zhaodong county government on education, industry and municipal government. Catalogued. Open.
2. Revolutionary history archives: 79 juan from 1945-49 on anti-traitor work, land reform, party-building and conscription.
3. Post-1949 archives: 22,235 juan of documentary archives from the Party, government and mass organizations.
4. Special archives: 1,070 (or 1,110) juan of place name, financial, census, statistical and art archives.
5. Technical archives: 17 (or 45) juan on new village plans.
6. Audio- and videotape archives: 20 items on meetings and disasters.
The archives have also reported 25,176 juan of technical archives in 1988, but this apparently includes archival offices in addition to the municipal archives itself. The archives have collected 356 ce of catalogues from 71 local offices, 21 xiang and zhen offices, and four factories, establishing a center for catalogues of archives offices in the municipality.
SOURCE: HLJDA 1990.1: 33, Hoover; LSDA 1993.4:133; Zhaodong xianzhi, 1985: 357, UCB/CCSL.
ZHAOZHOU COUNTY ARCHIVES 肇 州 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, disbanded in 1967, restored in 1971. 1984: 24,081 juan, including 196 juan of old regime archives and 142 juan of revolutionary history archives; 17,474 juan of contemporary archives, and 3,930 ce of printed materials. Open.
SOURCE: Zhaozhou xianzhi, 1987: 298-299, UCB/CCSL.
BIYANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 泌 陽 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. total holdings unclear.
SOURCE: Biyang xianzhi 1994:579, UCB/CCSL.
BO’AI COUNTY ARCHIVES 博 愛 縣 檔 案 館
1985: 9,518 juan of archives and 3,295 ce of printed materials, including archives from the Qing and republican periods. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Bo’ai xianzhi 1994:553-554, UCB/CCSL.
DANCHENG COUNTY ARCHIVES 鄲 城 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, stopped working during CR, resumed operations in 1977. 1990: 15,616 juan of documentary, technical and special archives; 39 photos; 13 tapes and videos; 9,339 ce of printed materials. In 1958, 1 juan of historical archives was collected by the archives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Dancheng xianzhi 1992: 506-507; Zhoukou diquzhi 1993: 804, UCB/CCSL.
FAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 范 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1950; work was paralyzed during CR and many archives were lost; resumed operations in 1979. 1986: 12,098 juan in 41 quanzong, including 7 juan of revolutionary history archives and 2 juan of old regime archives; 4,118 ce of printed materials.
SOURCE: Fan xianzhi 1993:456-458, UCB/CCSL.
FUGOU COUNTY ARCHIVES 扶 溝 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1990: 15,878 juan of documentary, technical and special archives, 3 videotapes and 685 photos; 30,272 ce of printed materials.
SOURCE: Zhoukou diquzhi 1993: 804, UCB/CCSL.
GONG COUNTY ARCHIVES 鞏 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, disbanded during CR, resumed operations in 1978. 1985: 14,356 juan, including 9,725 juan of permanent archives and 4,631 juan of long-term archives; 10,465 ce of printed materials.
SOURCE: Gong xianzhi 1991: 162-163, UCB/CCSL.
GUSHI COUNTY ARCHIVES 固 始 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958; disbanded during CR; resumed operations in 1980. 1987: 1,700 juan of archives and 6,000 ce of printed materials in 105 quanzong, including revolutionary history archives, old regime archives and current archives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Gushi xianzhi 1994:465, UCB/CCSL
HUAIYANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 淮 陽 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, disrupted by CR with a serious loss of archives. 1990: 21,166 juan of documentary, technical and special archives; 312 pieces of blueprints; 1,150 photos; 7,776 ce of printed materials. 1987: 77 quanzong. In 1955, 18,000 items of revolutionary documents and 1,600 items of old regime archives were collected in a major campaign. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Huaiyang xianzhi 1991: 755-756; Zhoukou diquzhi 1993: 804, UCB/CCSL
HUANGFANQU STATE FARM ARCHIVES 黃 泛 區 農 場 檔 案 館
Est. 1965 to house the records of farms in the Yellow River flood plain. Stopped during CR with the loss of many valuable records. 1985: over 4,000 juan/ce of archives and printed materials.
SOURCE: Huangfanqu nongchangzhi 1987: 237, UCB/CCSL.
JIAOZUO CITY ARCHIVES 焦 作 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. Many archives were lost or burned during CR. 1986: 25,164 juan in 68 quanzong; 8,663 ce of printed materials. The gazetteer lists the units covered by each of these quanzong, and the size of each record group. This complete list (extremely unusual in gazetteer sources) probably gives a good idea of the types of contemporary archives categories one is likely to find in a county archive, through the substantial mining activity in this county does give it a particular slant. There are 433 juan from the office handling sent-down educated youth. Notably, Public Security is not one of the bureaus whose archives are included. One quanzong includes 146 juan of revolutionary history archives from the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Border Region government, North China people’s government, Pingyuan province people’s government, Taihang administration, the CCP Jiaozuo city committee, county committee and government; 24,163 juan in 67 quanzong of contemporary archives from Jiaozuo mining district committee, coal mine committee and government, city committee and government, mass associations and disbanded units, including documentary, technical and tapes archives. The archives also hold 204 ce of revolutionary historical materials and 8,130 ce of contemporary materials. Among the historical materials are the Dazhong daily (July-Sept., 1941), Jin-Cha-Ji daily (Jan., 1938-June, 1948), Minguo daily (Jan.-Sept., 1927), Huaiqing fuzhi from the Shunzhi’s period, Xiuwu xianzhi from the Daoguang period, Huojia xianzhi (1935), etc.. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Jiaozuo shizhi 1993: 1127-1140, UCB/CCSL.
LINGBAO COUNTY ARCHIVES 靈 寶 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, disbanded during CR, resumed operations in 1978. 1985: 18,604 juan of archives and 9,424 ce of printed materials. The contents include permanent archives, long-term archives, historical archives and Four Clean-up archives. Open.
SOURCE: Lingbao xianzhi 1992: 837, UCB/CCSL.
LUANCHUAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 欒 川 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1953; ceased functioning during CR; archives in some county units were stolen or sold as waste paper; resumed operation in 1977. 1989: 15,516 juan in 84 quanzong, including 90 juan of historical archives, also specialized and science and technology archives, photos; 6,679 ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Luanchuan xianzhi 1994:572-574, UCB/CCSL
LUOYANG CITY JIANXI DISTRICT ARCHIVES 洛 陽 市 澗 西 區 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, disbanded during CR, resumed operations in 1978. 1985: 2,388 juan, including 801 juan of permanent, and 1,137 juan of long-term archives. Open.
SOURCE: Luoyangshi Jianxi diquzhi 1988: 313-314, UCB/CCSL.
LUSHAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 魯 山 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1988: 13,764 juan of permanent and long-term archives and 1,614 juan of short-term archives; 8,967 ce of printed materials. In 1955, 4,008 items of republican archives were collected and catalogued. Among them, 169 items were from the KMT committee, 388 from the Youth Corps, 118 from the police, 121 from judicial organs, and 238 from the military. They were initially kept by the county public security bureau, and transferred to the Xuchang (許 昌) prefectural public security department in 1976. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Lushan xianzhi 1994: 736-741, UCB/CCSL.
LUYI COUNTY ARCHIVES 鹿 邑 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, disbanded during CR. 1990: 16,956 juan of documentary, technical and special archives; 680 pieces of blueprints; 1,520 photos; 15 tapes and videos; 21,000 ce of printed materials 1985: 63 quanzong, including 1 juan offont>
Est. 1959, disbanded during CR, resumed operations in 1978. Total holdings unclear. The collection includes historical archives, republican archives, contemporary documentary, special, personnel, technical, video and audio archives, and printed materials. Catalogues.
SOURCE: Mi xianzhi 1992: 569-570, UCB/CCSL.
NANYANG CITY ARCHIVES 南 陽 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, disbanded during CR, resumed operations in 1980. 1985: 16,190 juan in 183 quanzong; 5,670 ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Nanyang shizhi 1989:720-721, UCB/CCSL.
NANYANG PREFECTURAL ARCHIVES 南 陽 地 區 檔 案 館
Est. by 1959. 1985: 34,895 juan in 152 quanzong including 210 juan of revolutionary history archives from the nearby border areas (1947-49) and the underground party; 1,467 juan in 114 quanzong of historical archives (1850-1949), mostly from the Guomindang regime, social organizations, enterprises and sectarian societies; 29,285 juan of contemporary documentary archives; and specialized archives of place names, census, financial records, schools, culture, letters and complaints (xinfang), housing. and scientific and technical matters. There are 8,485 ce of materials of 1,241 types, including party publications from 1938-48. Open.
SOURCE: Nanyang diquzhi 1994, UCB/CCSL
NEIHUANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 內 黃 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958; 310 juan of archives were stolen during CR; work was paralyzed; operations resumed in 1978. 1987: 8,860 juan in 28 quanzong, including 23 juan of revolutionary history archives (1938-49); 87 juan of historical archives; 2,149 juan of personnel archives and 18 folders of photos. The collection also includes 7,802 ce of printed materials. The revolutionary archives are CCP documents of the North China Bureau, Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Border Region and other revolutionary organs and districts. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Neihuang xianzhi 1993: ??-??, UCB/CCSL
NEIXIANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 內 鄉 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1962; disbanded in CR; resumed operation in 1979. 1985: 17,200 juan of archives, including 21 juan of historical archives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Neixiang xianzhi 1994:667-668, UCB/CCSL
NINGLING COUNTY ARCHIVES 寧 陵 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, stopped working during CR, resumed operations in 1980. 1989: 12,544 juan, including 10,456 juan of permanent and 2,088 juan of long-term archives. Also 12,130 juan of student records. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Ningling xianzhi 1992:371-372, UCB/CCSL.
PINGDINGSHAN CITY ARCHIVES 平 頂 山 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1959; work was paralyzed during CR; resumed operations in 1973. 1986: 7,573 juan in 39 quanzong; 10,922 ce of printed materials. The city archives started its own collections from 1964, mainly from the city’s CCP committee and government. Local units have established their own archives since 1955; by 1986, over 74,000 documentary archives, 50,753 juan of lawsuit archives, 9,092 juan of public security archives and 217,752 juan of account archives were held citywide. Open.
SOURCE: Pingdingshan shizhi 1994: 265-267, UCB/CCSL
QINYANG CITY ARCHIVES 沁 陽 縣 檔 案 館
1989: 17,300 juan in 76 quanzong. The holdings include 11 juan of old regime archives, 96 juan of revolutionary history archives, 17,010 juan of contemporary archives, 3,171 juan of special archives and 1,585 tapes and videos; plus 8,965 ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Qinyang shizhi 1993: 477, UCB/CCSL.
QUESHAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 确 山 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, disrupted by CR, resumed operations in 1978. Holdings: 17,499 juan in 99 quanzong. These include 13,307 juan of documentary archives, 3,355 juan of census, 1,652 juan of land certificates, and 567 of photo archives; also 6,184 ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Queshan xianzhi 1993: 506-507, UCB/CCSL.
RUYANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 汝 陽 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, stopped working during CR. 1988: 17,930 juan of documentary archives, 1,800 juan of technical archives, 546 ce of tapes and videos and 10,800 juan of special archives. In 1988, 84 juan of historical archives were catalogued. Catalogues on revolutionary history archives have been edited by the archives. Open.
SOURCE: Ruyang xianzhi 1995: 535-536, UCB/CCSL.
RUZHOU CITY ARCHIVES 汝 州 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1958 as Linru (臨 汝) county archives; disbanded during CR; many archives were either damaged or lost; resumed operations in 1975. 1986: 11 juan of Qing archives; 302 juan of republican archives (1933-1947); 22,135 juan of PRC archives; 5,191 juan of specialized archives; 222 juan of scientific archives; 5,303 photos; 22,426 juan/ce of printed materials. The historical archives and printed materials were collected from local communes and include a Qing edict granting honorary titles, gazetteers, maps, a personal letter from Zhou Enlai, and meeting minutes of the local Japanese puppet government. Contemporary archives cover a wide range of issues including suppression of counter-revolutionaries, party rectification, the anti-rightist movement and the Four Clean-ups campaign. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Ruzhou shizhi 1994:675-681, UCB/CCSL
SHAAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 陝 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1985: 90,970 juan of archives countywide. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Shaan xianzhi 1988:312-313, UCB/CCSL.
SHANGQIU CITY ARCHIVES 商 丘 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. Some archives were lost or destroyed during CR. 1985: 9,845 juan in 67 quanzong, 5,402 ce of printed materials.
SOURCE: Shangqiu shizhi 1994:520, UCB/CCSL.
SHANGSHUI COUNTY ARCHIVES 商 水 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. Many archives were lost or destroyed during CR. Operations resumed in 1978.
1990: 19,000 juan of documentary, technical and special archives; 685 photos; 11,620 ce of printed materials. Open.
SOURCE: Shangshui xianzhi 1990: 280; Zhoukou diquzhi 1993: 804, UCB/CCSL.
SHENQIU COUNTY ARCHIVES 沈 丘 獻 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1990: 14,909 juan of documentary, technical and special archives; 10 tapes and videos; 2,185 photos; 9,850 ce of printed materials..
SOURCE: Zhoukou diquzhi 1993: 804, UCB/CCSL.
SUIPING COUNTY ARCHIVES 遂 平 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. In 1975, Suiping county and the county archives was hit by a major flood. The entire collection of 7,500 juan of archives (including 479 juan of republican archives) and 2,200 ce of printed materials were all underwater. Eight months of hard labor rescued all of the important archives. From 1979 to 1985, the archives has organized its total collection of 85,134 juan into 15 categories: industry, agriculture, irrigation, weather, administrative districts, place names, education, commerce, cultural relics, (criminal) cases, medical records, news and broadcasting, accounts, science and cadres. Quanzong introductions are available. Open.
SOURCE: Suiping xianzhi 1994:464-465, UCB/CCSL
TAIKANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 太 康 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958.1990: 13,143 juan of documentary, technical and special archives; photos; tapes and videos; 16,041 ce of printed materials.
SOURCE: Zhoukou diquzhi 1993: 804, UCB/CCSL.
TANGHE COUNTY ARCHIVES 唐 河 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958; disbanded in 1966; resumed operations in 1978. 1985: 16,694 juan in 108 quanzong, including 46 juan of revolutionary history archives; 205 juan of old regime archives and PRC archives from the CCP county committee, government and their subordinate offices. The old regime archives relate to the KMT police, personnel, mass organizations, justice, prison, secret societies and religion. Local newspapers and magazines are also in the collection. Catalogues, indexes. Open.
SOURCE: Tanghe xianzhi 1993:570-575, UCB/CCSL.
TONGXU COUNTY ARCHIVES 通 許 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1962, stopped working during CR, resumed in 1978. 1984: 22,473 juan in 99 quanzong. The collection includes 19,646 juan of documentary archives, 206 juan of account archives, 30 juan of technical archives, 2,775 juan of ex-service men archives, and 316 juan of archives on class background. Printed materials: 12,977 ce. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Tongxu xianzhi 1995: 552-553, UCB/CCSL.
WEIHUI CITY ARCHIVES 衛 輝 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1987: over 10,000 juan of archives and 9,000 ce of printed materials. There are old regime archives, revolutionary history archives and PRC archives. Local gazetteers and publications of the republican era are also included. Open.
SOURCE: Weihui shizhi 1993:524-525, UCB/CCSL
WEISHI COUNTY ARCHIVES 尉 氏 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1985: 14,305 juan in 75 quanzong. The holdings include 9,796 juan of documentary, 36 juan of technical, 4,455 juan of special archives (accounts, land and house property certificates, statistics, census records, letters of complaint, etc.), 4,123 photographs. Printed materials: 5,632 ce; plus 3,884 ce of newspapers and magazines.
SOURCE: Weishi xianzhi 1993: 574-576, UCB/CCSL.
WEN COUNTY ARCHIVES 溫 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1985: 14,677 juan in 74 quanzong, including 154 juan of revolutionary history archives and 44 juan of old regime archives. Of the contemporary archives, 11,595 are documentary archives.
SOURCE: Wen xianzhi 1991: 163, UCB/CCSL.
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WUGANG CITY (DISTRICT) ARCHIVES 舞 鋼 市(區 )檔 案 館
Est. 1981. 1990: 13,937 juan of archives and printed materials. The collection includes 3,282 juan of documentary archives (2,102 juan of permanent and 1,180 juan of long-term), 7 juan of tapes and videos, 46 juan of technical archives, 2,256 juan of special archives, and 8,388 ce of printed materials. Archives include records of lawsuits, transportation, trade marks, insurance, news and cultural activities; census records and 130 juan of militia archives are also included. Catalogues. Open. (Note: Wugang used to be a city (shi) but now is subordinate to Pingdingshan shi and thus has apparently been demoted to a qu, though it calls its gazetteer a shizhi.)
SOURCE: Wugang shizhi 1993: 656-658, UCB/CCSL.
WUYANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 舞 陽 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1985:11,896 juan of archives; 7621 ce of printed materials; 975 photos. Open.
SOURCE: Wuyang xianzhi 1993:370, UCB/CCSL.
WUZHI COUNTY ARCHIVES 武 陟 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1985: 17,536 juan of documentary archives, including 338 juan of historical archives; also 1,272 photos. There were 22,224 ce of printed materials in countywide archives offices, including 4,551 ce kept in the county archives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Wuzhi xianzhi 1993: 447-448, UCB/CCSL
XIANGCHENG COUNTY ARCHIVES 項 城 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1990: 15,348 juan of documentary, technical and special archives; photos; tapes and videos; 7,857 ce of printed materials.
SOURCE: Zhoukou diquzhi 1993: 804, UCB/CCSL.
XIANGCHENG COUNTY ARCHIVES 襄 城 縣 檔 案 館
Est. May 1958, allegedly the first county archives in the nation. By 1960 it had collected 89,296 scattered historical documents and organized them into 11,162 juan of documentary archives. (It is unclear if they are still in the archives.) 1987: 29,141 juan in 156 quanzong; 8,353 juan/ce of printed materials. The collection includes documents from current and disbanded local offices; statistics, science and technology archives, agricultural records; newspapers; gazetteers, genealogies, photos and 1,192 historical and revolutionary relics. Catalogues, indexes. Open.
SOURCE: Xiangcheng xianzhi 1993:515-519, UCB/CCSL
XIHUA COUNTY ARCHIVES 西 華 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1990: 12,731 juan of archives; 2,505 photos; 16,192 ce of printed materials.
SOURCE: Zhoukou diquzhi 1993: 803-809, UCB/CCSL.
XINCAI COUNTY ARCHIVES 新 蔡 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1988: 1,174 [? sic] juan in 35 quanzong; 7,480 ce of printed materials. In 1979, 3,148 juan of land ownership records from the local housing bureau and republican archives from the provincial archives were received. There are also over 50,000 juan of archives in grass-roots archives offices. Open.
SOURCE: Xincai xianzhi 1994: 637-638 UCB/CCSL.
XINXIANG CITY ARCHIVES 新 鄉 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. Over 350 juan of archives were lost during CR; operations resumed in 1979. 1985: 30,932 juan in 72 quanzong. A table lists the name and number of juan in each of the record groups.
Republican archives: 6,021 juan in 7 quanzong from 1929-49. These were transferred from the provincial public security department in 1982. The gazetteer also mentions over 30,000 juan of archives, 3,000 documents, 7,000 name lists and 2,000 books of tables taken over from the old regime in 1949. These were organized and turned over to the city party committee in 1957, 1959 and 1960. The 1959 batch included 589 juan and one bundle deemed worth preserving, and 59 bags and one bundle of materials deemed without value. It is not clear if the 6.021 juan of republican archives are the remnants of these records.
Revolutionary history archives: 29 juan in 1 quanzong from the city work committee from 1942-49.
PRC archives: 24,882 juan in 64 quanzong; 6,060 juan in 6 quanzong from the CCP party organization, 1,415 juan in 3 quanzong from mass associations, 16,051 juan in 42 quanzong from government departments, 291 juan from democratic parties, and 1,065 juan in 9 quanzong from disbanded units.
Printed materials: 27,503 ce.
There were also 869 juan of archives in city construction archives in 1985. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Xinxiang shizhi 1994: 353-376, UCB/CCSL.
XINYANG PREFECTURAL ARCHIVES 信 陽 地 區 檔 案 館
Est. 1956. 1986: 22,024 juan in 89 quanzong, including 34 juan in 3 quanzong of revolutionary history archives, 1,224 juan in 20 quanzong of old regime archives and 20,766 juan in 66 quanzong of contemporary archives; also 7,366 ce of printed materials. The revolutionary history archives are from the eighth district committee and administration of the CCP Yu-Su-Wan border area, the CCP Tongbai first and second committee, and E-Yu-Wan border area committee and government, including records of bandit suppression, military affairs, organization and regime building, rent and interest reduction, production campaigns and front-line support. The old regime archives are from the KMT fifth Suijing district, ninth prefectural commissioner, police, and their subordinate departments, including personnel records, meeting minutes, regulations, correspondence, land tax records, and materials on suppression of the CCP base areas. The PRC archives represent 94% of the total holdings, but Xinyang appears to have one of the more complete sets of local republican records in the province. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Xinyang diquzhi 1992: 784-786, UCB/CCSL.
XINZHENG COUNTY ARCHIVES 新 鄭 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, stopped working during CR, resumed operations in 1978. Holdings: 12,115 juan of archives and 9,098 ce of printed materials. Open.
SOURCE: Xinzheng xianzhi 1992: 480-481, UCB/CCSL.
XUCHANG CITY ARCHIVES 許 昌 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. Holdings: 36,362 juan in 89 quanzong, 20,630 ce of printed materials.
Republican archives: 1,052 juan in 7 quanzong, from the KMT fifth prefectural administration, Xuchang county committee, Youth Corps, and local court. The contents include certificates, party membership lists, documents, orders, meeting minutes, reports, plans and judgments, related to politics, economy, military affairs, and culture.
Revolutionary history archives: 163 juan totaling 781 items. From the East China Field Army, Zhongyuan people’s government, the headquarters of Yu-Shaan-E military district, fifth prefecture party committee and administration of Western Henan. The archives include materials on bandit suppression, rent and interests reduction, land reform, front-line support, party rectification, military affairs, public security, taxes, finance, and administration.
PRC archives: 104 quanzong, including 41,102 juan of documentary archives, 1,067 juan of technical archives and 2,464 photos. They are mainly from the government departments, mass associations and enterprises.
Printed materials: divided into historical, revolutionary history and contemporary materials. The historical materials contain Xuzhouzhi dating from Ming, Qing and republican periods; maps, newspapers, photos and certificates from KMT fifth prefecture administration; and materials on BAT cigarette company. The revolutionary history materials include memoirs, letters, Xuchang Xinhua Daily, etc..
Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Xuchang shizhi 1993: 562-564, UCB/CCSL.
XUCHANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 許 昌 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. Holdings: 14,909 juan in 48 quanzong, including 6,550 juan of permanent and 3,564 juan of long-term archives; 8,498 ce of printed materials. Open.
SOURCE: Xuchang xianzhi 1993: 754-755, UCB/CCSL.
YANLING COUNTY ARCHIVES 鄢 陵 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1986: 21,300 juan in 53 quanzong. Open.
SOURCE: Yanling xianzhi 1989: 421-422, UCB/CCSL.
YANSHI COUNTY ARCHIVES 偃 師 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1985: 12,025 juan in 60 quanzong, including 6,009 juan of permanent archives and 4,017 juan of long-term archives; also (1983) 6,069 ce of printed materials. Catalogues, open.
SOURCE: Yanshi xianzhi 1992: 632-636, UCB/CCSL.
YONGCHENG COUNTY ARCHIVES 永 城 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958; work was paralyzed during CR; resumed operation in 1979. 1985: 11,377 juan in 58 quanzong; also archives on art, science and technology, specialized archives and photos; 6,455 juan/ce of printed materials. Catalogues, indexes. Open.
SOURCE: Yongcheng xianzhi 1991:487-488, UCB/CCSL
YUZHOU CITY ARCHIVES 禹 州 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, stopped work during CR. Holdings: 29,702 juan in 90 quanzong (23,875 juan of permanent and 2,736 juan of long-term archives); plus 13,443 ce of printed materials. The 461 ce of historical materials are divided into two parts: one includes republican era school class lists and documents from the KMT and puppet governments; the other includes local gazetteers. The archives also include materials on underground party activities, front-line support, bandit suppression, political movements and economic construction. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Yuzhou shizhi 1989: 214-215, UCB/CCSL.
ZHOUKOU PREFECTURAL ARCHIVES 周 口 地 區 檔 案 館
Est. 1965; work paralyzed during CR; resumed operations in 1978. Archives on the establishment of the former Huaiyang prefecture in the 1950s are included. The orders, reports, decisions and posters of the time are important for understanding Huaiyang in the early stage of the PRC. 1990: 12,133 juan in 68 quanzong of documentary archives, 401 juan of special archives (census, accounts, deceased cadres), 20 tapes and 4,215 photos; plus 33,428 ce of printed materials including 97 publications from the republican era, local gazetteers, genealogies, and statistics . In 1981, 250 juan of republican archives and 97 ce of historical materials were received (1923-49). Open.
SOURCE: Zhoukou diquzhi 1993: 803-809, UCB/CCSL.
ZHOUKOU CITY ARCHIVES 周 口 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1965, stopped working during CR, resumed in 1978. 1985: 54 quanzong with 4,486 juan of permanent and 3,218 juan of long-term archives. 1990: 11,007 juan of documentary, technical and special archives; 20 tapes and videos, 725 photos. Open.
SOURCE: Zhoukou shizhi 1994: 595-597; Zhoukou diquzhi 1993: 804, UCB/CCSL
BADONG COUNTY ARCHIVES 巴 東 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. Stopped work during CR. 1987: 36,726 juan of archives in 62 quanzong; 5,597 ce of printed materials. Historical archives (3,558 juan) include 216 Ming and Qing land contracts, 3,322 juan of republican archives, and 20 items of revolutionary history archives. The 33,281 juan of PRC archives are documentary records produced by various levels of administration in Badong, plus technical and photo archives. The collection of local gazetteers is relatively rich. Other printed materials include statistics, local newspapers, and documentary collections. Services: searches upon written or telephone request, no fees at present. Photocopying.
SOURCE: Hu Yinfang, 356-357, Beida; Badong xianzhi 1993: 488, UCB/CCSL.
CHANGYANG TUJIA AUTONOMOUS COUNTY ARCHIVES 長 陽 土 家 自 治 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, stopped work during CR, resumed operations in 1979. 1985:, 27,342 juan of archives in 124 quanzong and 7,067 ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open. Services and fees: searching and copying upon written request; identification required. Closed archives can only be read on the premises.
1. Qing archives (1736-1911): 66 (62?) juan. These include imperial edicts, land deeds, student exam papers, property sales and contracts.
2. Republican archives (1912-1949): 1554 (1549?) juan in 15 quanzong. KMT Changyang committee, county government, assembly, tax office, bank, Chamber of Commerce, Post Office, court, police department, people's militia (minzhong ziwei zongdui), and school.
3. Property and land deeds of the republican era (1912-1947): 54 juan.
4. Genealogies and gazetteers (1754-1945): 77 juan.
Revolutionary history archives: 7 juan (1926-30). White Lotus uprising in late Qing; CCP establishment and activities in the 1920s; Xiang-E'xi base area and Red Army activities
Contemporary documentary archives: 24,610 juan in 91 quanzong (1949-83).
Special archives (1929-1984). The holdings of over 10,000 juan include census, place name surveys, soil surveys, certificates of land and house property, registers for agricultural taxes, wages, tapes and videos and relics.
Information on Changyang archives, changes of administration, and local natural disasters have been edited by the archives.
SOURCE: Changyang xianzhi 1992: 604-605, UCB/CCSL; HUBDA 1988.3:47-48, Princeton; Hu Yinfang: 342-343, Beida
DANJIANGKOU CITY ARCHIVES 丹 江 口 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1960, ceased functioning during CR, restored in 1971. Holdings: 666 juan of republican archives (1935-47); 256 juan of revolutionary history archives (1948-49) on building the new regime, rent and interest reduction, bandit suppression and front-line support; 14,293 juan in 66 quanzong of contemporary documentary archives; 3,364 juan of census, house property surveys, and personnel archives. Printed materials: 10,126 items, including books, newspapers and maps. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Danjiangkou shizhi 1993: 594-595, UCB/CCSL.
DONGKOU COUNTY ARCHIVES 洞 口 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958; part of the collection was lost or burned during CR. 1986: 20,672 juan in 102 quanzong; 6,857 ce of printed materials. Most archives are collected from the county CCP committee, government and their subordinate offices. The earliest date of the collection is 1952. Some land certificates were burned due to "war preparation" in 1965. Local gazetteers, documents on local disasters, folk customs and odd events (strange matters) are included in the printed materials. Open.
SOURCE: Dongkou xianzhi 1994:643-644, UCB/CCSL
FANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 房 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, stopped work during CR, resumed operations in 1974. 1985: 21,168 juan in 92 quanzong, including 17,300 juan of archives, 1,738 ce of newspapers, 666 ce of periodicals, and 5,621 ce of books. Gazetteers. Roughly 90% of the republican archives were lost in 1948, 10,000 juan in all. There were 112,039 juan of archives in various archives offices countywide in 1985. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Fang xianzhi 1991: 540-541, UCB/CCSL.
GUANGJI COUNTY ARCHIVES 廣 濟 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958; disbanded during CR; resumed operations in 1970. 1987: 30,302 juan of archives, including 303 juan of republican archives from the Wuxue (武 穴 ) local court turned over by the public security bureau in 1982; 20,130 ce of printed materials. All the republican archives were burned except the court archives noted above and they are incomplete. The PRC archives are documentary archives, special archives, personnel archives, census, photos and manuscripts. Qing local gazetteers, genealogies, and newspapers are also included. Photocopying. Open.
CCP history: since 1951, several surveys on CCP history were conducted here. First, by CCP Central Committee in 1951, then by the History Department of Wuhan University in 1959, later in 1983 and 1985 by the county committee. Several manuscripts were published internally (neibu) on events, important people, and folk songs.
SOURCE: Guangji xianzhi 1994:728-729, UCB/CCSL
HANCHUAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 漢 川 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1957, stopped work during CR, restored in 1978. 1983: 10,155 juan in 69 quanzong, including documentary, technical, audit, education, account, public health and township enterprises archives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Hanchuan xianzhi 1992: 610-611, UCB/CCSL.
HANYANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 漢 陽 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1987: 20,428 juan in 56 quanzong of archives and about 10,000 ce of printed materials. Republican archives (3,760 juan; 3,537 according to the gazetteer) include records of the Hanyang KMT and Youth Corps, and the Japanese occupation; post-1949 archives (16,494 juan) cover the governance and life of Hanyang county. These include 4,094 juan of documentary archives; 5,589 juan of civil lawsuits; 2,378 juan of criminal cases; a few volumes of technical, financial and census archives; and some photos. Printed materials: over 8,000 juan. Catalogues. Open. Services offered: inspection or photocopying upon written or telephone request, for a fee. Identification required.
As many as 100,000 juan of archives were to be moved to the county archives when the new building was finished in 1989.
SOURCE: Hu Yinfang, 283-284; Hanyang xianzhi 1989: 97-98, UCB/CCSL.
JIAYU COUNTY ARCHIVES 嘉 魚 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1987: 26,500 juan in (1985) 73 quanzong, including 9,133 juan of permanent archives and 9,985 juan of long-term archives, representing over 95% of the total holdings; 3,905 ce of printed materials. To edit local gazetteers, the archives have collected 281 juan of historical materials. Only 855 juan of republican archives were left after losses with the Japanese invasion in 1938, destruction ordered by the last KMT magistrate in 1949, and a fire in 1951. Stilequest, for a fee. Identification required.
SOURCE: Hu Yinfang, 320-322, Beida; Jiayu xianzhi 1993: 812-813, UCB/CCSL.
JINGMEN CITY ARCHIVES 荊 門 市檔 案 館
Est. 1959, ceased work during CR, resumed in 1980. 1985: 20,342 juan of archives and 6,965 ce of printed materials. Hu Yinfang (1987): 16,594 juan of archives and 6,840 ce of printed materials.
Documentary archives: 18,438 juan in 91 quanzong. The holdings include 78 juan of republican archives seized and organized by the public security bureau in 1950. Records derive from the KMT county committee, government, Youth Corps, court, schools and military academies (1938-49). There are also 3 juan of revolutionary history archives from the fourth district of Jianghan administration, relating to the logistics system for the party, government and military force, grain purchase, the issuing and circulating of liangpiao, agricultural taxes, financial work, and political movements; 18,357 juan of PRC archives on politics, economy, civil affairs, justice, military affairs, industry, transportation, agriculture, forestry, irrigation, electricity, technology, education and culture.
Old regime archives: 93 juan from KMT government and party organizations
Revolutionary history archives: 3 juan, which are from the No. 4 office of Jianghan administration of the People's Liberation Army (江 漢 行 政 公 署 第 四 專 署 ) in 1948.
Technical archives: 11 juan, mostly administration divisions, maps and blue prints.
Special archives: 1,803 juan, including census, soil and place name surveys.
Photo archives.
Archives in kind, mainly seals.
Printed materials: including Jingzhoubao, Jingmenbao and other newspapers.
Catalogues, indexes. Open. Inquires by mail and telephone are accepted. Photocopying. Fees and identification required.
SOURCE: Jingmen shizhi 1994: 697-698, UCB/CCSL; Hu Yinfang, 299-300, Beida.
LICHUAN CITY ARCHIVES 利 川 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1958 as county archives, received only 100 juan of archives during 1967-74. In 1981, 287 juan of republican archives were transferred from the prefectural archives and they were re-organized into 699 juan. 1986: 25,691 juan in 53 quanzong, including old regime archives, documentary, technical, special and photo archives. Open.
SOURCE: Lichuan xianzhi 1993: 381-382, UCB/CCSL.
QIANJIANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 潛 江 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, disbanded during CR, resumed operations in 1978. 1987: 24,391 juan in 69 quanzong, including 300 juan in 10 quanzong of republican archives; 99 items of revolutionary history archives (1927-1949); 23,522 juan in 60 quanzong of documentary archives from the party and government organizations and mass associations; 12,215 juan of technical archives and 62 tapes and videos; 9,940 ce of printed materials, including newspapers, statistics, historical materials and two Qing gazetteers. Catalogues. Some of the archives are open. Services: lending and copying for a fee. Identification required.
SOURCE: Qianjiang xianzhi 1990: 552-553, UCB/CCSL; Hu Yinfang, 331-332, Beida.
TIANMEN COUNTY ARCHIVES 天 門 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1985: 14,382 juan in 75 quanzong. The collection includes 1,190 juan of old regime archives, 16 ce of revolutionary history archives, 13,176 juan of PRC archives (7,059 juan of permanent and 4,549 juan of long-term), and 4,737 ce of printed materials. The republican archives were taken over by the new government in 1949 and under the control of the public security bureau. In 1982, they were turned over to the archives. The PRC archives are from the county committee, government and their subordinate offices. In 1984, 454 juan of archives from party and government for 1949-1955 were repaired. Open.
SOURCE: Tianmen xianzhi 1989: 763-764, UCB/CCSL.
TONGSHAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 通 山 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, stopped work during CR, resumed operations in 1978. Holdings: 18,110 juan in 73 quanzong; 2,106 ce of printed materials. The collection includes 92 juan of revolutionary history archives, 5 gazetteers (29 ce), and photos. In 1949, the retreating KMT government burned all its records; but the new government ordered all population registers and other records throughout the county to be preserved and handed over. Later, because of lack of attention, most of these records were lost, with only 691 juan of legal records surviving. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Tongshan xianzhi 1991: 505-506, UCB/CCSL
WUCHANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 武 昌 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. Holdings: 21,600 juan/ce. The collection includes 13,483 juan of contemporary documentary archives, 1,942 juan of personnel, 63 juan of technical, and 1,285 juan of historical archives; plus 4,824 ce of printed materials. In 1981, 615 juan of republican archives were transferred from the Wuhan City Archives. The archives also include Jiangxia xianzhi (from Kangxi, Qianlong and Tongzhi period). Open.
SOURCE: Wuchang xianzhi 1989: 139, UCB/CCSL.
WUFENG COUNTY ARCHIVES 五 峰 縣 檔 案 館
1985: 14,908 juan in 64 quanzong. The archives contain 239 juan in 2 quanzong of historical archives, 14,629 juan of documentary archives, 36 juan of technical archives and 4 tapes and videos. Printed materials: 8,835 ce. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Wufeng xianzhi 1994: 412, UCB/CCSL.
XIANGFAN CITY ARCHIVES 襄 樊 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1987: 41,940 juan in 175 quanzong; 12,531 ce of printed materials (1985: 16,516 ce).
Republican archives (1913-49): 2,658 (2,648) juan in 12 quanzong. The contents include the KMT party affairs, government documents, military affairs, educational and lawsuit records.
Revolutionary history archives (1944-1949): 10 juan in 1 quanzong. Mostly from the CCP Tongbai district, third district, South Han work committee, and offices on production and front-line support, appointments, organization, and the defense of Hanyang.
Contemporary archives from 1949 to 1986: 39,282 juan in 181 quanzong. These include 35,642 juan of documentary archives from Xiangyang committee, government, and their subordinate offices on politics, economy, science, education, finance, taxes, trade, meeting minutes, etc.; also 182 juan of technical archives, photos and tapes.
Printed materials: 12,518 ce, including some republican newspapers such as Daguangbao, Yishibao, Saodangbao, Dagong evening, Wenhuibao, Xinkuaibao, Heping daily, Chaobao, Gongjiaobao, Huazhong daily, Jinrongbao, Jiuguo daily, Hankou minguo daily, E’bei daily, Xin Hubei daily, Wuhan shibao, Qianfengbao, Xinwen daily, Chufeng weekly.
There are 4,035 juan of archives more than 30 years old open to the public. Catalogues. Services: searching or copying archives upon written request, for a fee.
SOURCE: Xiangfan shizhi 1994: 784-787, UCB/CCSL; Hu Yinfang, 288-289, Beida.
XISHUI COUNTY ARCHIVES 浠 水 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. Holdings: 50,363 juan in 81 quanzong. There are 252 juan of republican archives. The contemporary archives include documentary, special, technical archives, tapes and videos, and photos. Printed materials: 7,703 ce. Catalogues. Open. Information on workers’ movements, disasters, and land reform has been edited by the archives.
SOURCE: Xishui xianzhi 1992: 505-508, UCB/CCSL.
XIANNING CITY ARCHIVES 咸 寧 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1985: 82 quanzong. Included are 20,513 juan of documentary and special archives, 706 photos and 6,622 ce of printed materials. In 1982, 215 juan of republican archives were received by the county archives from the prefecture. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Xianning shizhi 1992: 593, UCB/CCSL.
XINZHOU COUNTY ARCHIVES 新 州 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959; discontinued work during CR; resumed operations in 1971. Holdings: 32,733 juan in 92 quanzong; 6,728 ce of printed materials. There are 14,646 juan of documentary archives from the local government and CCP committee and their subordinate offices (including xiang, zhen, and people's communes) since 1949. The 17,951 juan of special archives contain information on local industry, agriculture, and commerce. Catalogues, introduction to quanzong. Open.
SOURCE: DAGZQS: 449-450; Xinzhou xianzhi 1992: 579, UCB/CCSL.
YICHANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 宜 昌 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1985: 21,559 juan of archives and 4,350 ce of printed materials (1987: 29,744 juan/ce). The 367 juan of historical archives include 120 juan of Qing archives: Qing gazetteers and religious books used by the local people; 222 juan (gazetteer: 141 juan) of republican archives from the KMT county government, party committee, assembly, military, and local court; 30 juan/ce of genealogy (pudie) archives. Most republican archives are kept in the Yichang prefectural archives. Revolutionary history archives show the wartime Anti-Japanese Drama Troupe's activities in the Yichang area (including photos). PRC archives (23,999 juan) are the main body of the collection, organized into records of agriculture, industry and transportation, finance and trade, propaganda, education and public health, and mass organizations. The archives also contain Yichang xiaozhi (1935), Yichang xianzhi (1936), maps, and photos. Open. Photocopying
SOURCE: Hu Yinfang, 337-338, Beida; Yichang xianzhi 1992: 565,579, UCB/CCSL.
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YIDU COUNTY ARCHIVES 宜 都 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, disbanded during CR, resumed operations in 1979. 1985: 4,673 juan in 17 quanzong of republican archives from the KMT county committee, government, military force, police and mass associations; 25 juan in 3 quanzong of revolutionary history archives on the CCP party activities in Yidu; 25,710 juan in 157 quanzong of contemporary archives, documentary, technical, photo, census and other specialized archives. Printed materials: 7,964 ce, including provincial government bulletins, Yidu three days, Qianfeng jianbao, Changfeng weekly, gazetteers, Yangshi zupu, Caoshi zupu and other genealogies.
SOURCE: Yidu xianzhi 1990: 548-549, UCB/CCSL.
YUNXI COUNTY ARCHIVES 鄖 西 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1960, ceased functioning during CR, resumed operations in 1977. 1987: 25,015 juan of archives and printed materials. These include 15,166 juan of documentary archives, 457 juan of special archives, 575 juan of personnel archives, 6 juan of photos and 8,811 ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open. The archives hold only fragmentary republican archives.
SOURCE: Yunxi xianzhi 1995: 669-670, UCB/CCSL.
ZHIJIANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 枝 江 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1963, ceased functioning during CR. 1985: 61 quanzong. The holdings include 1,363 juan of republican archives, 13,497 juan of documentary archives, 332 juan of personnel, photos, video and audio archives, and 383 items of military archives. Printed materials: 3,529 ce, including Zhijiang xianzhi from the Qianlong and Tongzhi periods, genealogies, maps and newspapers. There are also 267,811 juan of archives and materials in 91 archives offices countywide. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Zhijiang xianzhi 1990: 723-724, UCB/CCSL.
ZHUXI COUNTY ARCHIVES 竹 溪 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1960. 1987: 17,807 juan of archives in 50 quanzong and 4,819 ce of printed materials. There are 150 juan of historical archives, mainly from the KMT county committee and government; 15,926 juan of PRC documentary archives, which are the main body of the collection and were produced by the local administration and its subordinate offices, enterprises and mass associations; and 1,731 juan of special archives including census records; 4,340 ce of printed materials, including local gazetteers, genealogies and books. Catalogues. Open. Services: searching, lending and copying upon request, for a fee.
SOURCE: Hu Yinfang, 350-351, Beida; Zhuxi xianzhi n.d.: 162-163, UCB/CCSL.
ANHUA COUNTY ARCHIVES 安 化 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, under military control during 1966-69, resumed operations in 1977, one of the largest county archives in Hunan. 1985: 24,970 juan of archives and printed materials, including 11 juan of revolutionary archives and 3,591 juan in 19 quanzong of republican archives; 2,933 ce of printed materials. The revolutionary archives contain bulletins, posters, letters and orders from the county peasants’ association from 1927; also materials from the county work committee. The republican archives come from the KMT county committee, Youth Corps, government and their subordinate departments. The printed materials include local party histories and chronologies of the peasant and workers’ movement from 1925-1948; also historical photos from the first united front of the CCP and the KMT, decrees from Southern Ming regimes, and a transit pass from the early Qing time. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Anhua xianzhi 1993: 528-529, UCB/CCSL.
ANXIANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 安 鄉 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1989: 25,663 juan of documentary archives (of which 16,611 are permanent), including 9,153 juan (9135?) in 11 quanzong of republican archives and 7 juan of revolutionary history archives. There are also 2,199 juan of specialized archives on personnel, deceased cadres, class background, census, industrial surveys, place names, genealogies, tapes and videos, and 30 genealogies. Open.
SOURCE: Anxiang xianzhi 1994: 518-520, UCB/CCSL.
BAOJING COUNTY ARCHIVES 保 靖 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1986: 22,652 juan; 11,130 ce of printed materials.
Many archives were destroyed as part of efforts for war preparation. The historical archives are what remain of 15,000 juan that survived to the PRC era. They were first organized in 1955 to serve suppression of counter-revolutionaries, and in 1968 to purify class ranks. Then in 1973, the public security bureau turned all historical archives over to the county archives, and they were organized and catalogued after 1978. Catalogues. Open.
1. Qing archives (1796-1911): 33 juan of memorials, tax records, and 128 pieces of documents on the Taiping and Nian rebellions, and 20 volumes of Baojing county gazetteers from the Yongzheng and Tongzhi eras.
2. Republican archives (1911-1949): The gazetteer reports the total number of Qing and republican historical archives as 9,522, though earlier sources refer to 12,000 juan of republican archives. From the provincial and county governments, KMT organizations and local mass organizations. Documents of public affairs, finance, tax, salt affairs, construction, education, post and telegraph, military and law.
3. Revolutionary history archives: 31 juan. Documents of the Hunan peasant movement and the CCP's activities after the Horse Day Incident.
4. Archives after 1949 (1949-1986): 10,625 juan. Archives of the county government and CCP committee, and their subordinate offices.
5. Materials: Publications since the Qing.
SOURCE: Baojing xianzhi 1990: 79-80, UCB/CCSL; LSDA 1987.4: 134 UCB; DAGZ 1982.2: 16-17, Hoover.
CHALING COUNTY ARCHIVES 茶 陵 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, under military control during CR, resumed operations in 1979. 1992: 45,617 juan/ce archives and printed materials, including 8 juan/ce of Ming-Qing archives, 3,817 juan of republican archives, 259 juan of revolutionary history archives, and 41,533 juan of contemporary archives. The contemporary archives contain 28,779 juan of documentary, 56 juan of technical, 2,613 juan of specialized archives, and 6 juan of tapes and videos. Printed materials: 10,079 ce. Open.
SOURCE: Chaling xianzhi 1993: 582-583, UCB/CCSL.
CHANGNING COUNTY ARCHIVES 常 寧 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, disrupted by CR. 1990: 29,706 juan in 131 quanzong. In 1949, 4,111 juan of republican archives were received. In 1972, the total holdings were reduced from 18,331 juan to 6,077 juan in the process of re-organization and appraisal of the archives. Open.
SOURCE: Changning xianzhi 1993: 466-467, UCB/CCSL.
CHANGSHA COUNTY ARCHIVES 長 沙 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, ceased functions during CR, resumed operations in 1978. 1989: over 35,000 juan of archives and printed materials; 125 quanzong. Index of 314,985 names. Open.
Ming-Qing archives: gazetteers and genealogies, including Changsha fuzhi (1533, 1747), Changsha xianzhi (1871), Shishi zupu (18 juan), Wang Fuzhi’s Chuanshan yishu (59 juan), and land deeds (1 juan).
Republican archives: 1,334 juan from the KMT county committee, government and their departments (re-organized into 1,635 juan); the registers of land (362 pieces, 1945); Linxiang shanzhi, Lishi zupu.
Revolutionary history archives, including manuscripts of Yang Kaihui.
Contemporary archives: 22,810 juan from the county government and qu, zhen, xiang, and communes from before 1976; also over 4,000 ce of printed materials; photos and artifacts.
SOURCE: Changsha xianzhi 1995: 624-626, UCB/CCSL.
CHEN COUNTY ARCHIVES 郴 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, disrupted by CR with a loss of many valuable archives. 1988: 15,178 juan of archives and 6,546 ce of printed materials. Information on the peasants’ movement and Long March have been edited by the archives. Countywide, there were 262 juan of historical archives and 1,227 ce of "enemy regime" (diwei 敵 偽 ) archives in 1981. In 1983, 120 ce of land reform land registers were received. Open.
SOURCE: Chen xianzhi 1995: 655, UCB/CCSL.
CHENXI COUNTY ARCHIVES 辰 西 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1987: 15,294 juan of archives and 3,611 ce of printed materials; photos. In 1965, the 44,771 juan in the collection were reduced to 20,514 juan in the process of re-organization and appraisal of archives. In 1985, 1,737 juan of republican archives were transferred from the public security bureau to the archives. In 1949, KMT records indicate over 7,000 juan in their archives, but most were destroyed as the KMT regime collapsed. Open.
SOURCE: Chenxi xianzhi 1994: 672, UCB/CCSL.
CHENZHOU CITY ARCHIVES 郴 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1959; work suspended during CR; resumed operations in 1978. 1989: 10,477 juan of PRC archives; including 9,977 juan of documentary archives; also 9,668 ce of printed materials. The earliest materials are archives from the city CCP committee, government and their subordinate offices, presumably from the 1950s. Part of this collection was destroyed due to the "war preparation" in 1962. Open.
SOURCE: Chenzhou shizhi 1994: 547-549, UCB/CCSL
CILI COUNTY ARCHIVES 慈 利 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958; the archives were sealed by the military at the beginning of CR, reopened in 1969. 1987: 32,143 juan of archives, including 2,141 juan of republican archives; 3,500 ce of printed materials. Open.
SOURCE: Cili xianzhi 1990: 492, UCB/CCSL
DAYONG COUNTY ARCHIVES 大 庸 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, under military control during CR. Many archives were destroyed as part of efforts for war preparation in 1965-66. 1988: 30,811 juan in 137 quanzong. The collection includes historical archives, documentary, technical, personnel, tapes and videos, tourism, specialized, religion, and account archives. The historical archives (including revolutionary history archives) represent only 0.7% of the total holdings [suggesting about 200 juan]. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Dayong xianzhi 1995: 630-632, UCB/CCSL.
GUZHANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 古 丈 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, closed for a while during CR, resumed in 1968. Many records were destroyed during war preparation in 1970-72.1985: 16,885 juan in 63 quanzong. The archives contain 675 juan historical archives in 3 quanzong, including 8 juan of revolutionary history archives. The PRC archives include 16,210 juan of documentary, 44 juan of technical, 672 juan of specialized, and 10 ce of tape and video archives. Printed materials: 6,783 ce. Open.
SOURCE: Guzhang xianzhi, 1989: 73-75, UCB/CCSL.
HENGDONG COUNTY ARCHIVES 衡 東 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1966 in transfer from Hengshan 1989: 41,525 juan in 140 quanzong, including 819 juan of historical archives, 29,221 juan of contemporary documentary archives, 128 juan of technical archives; plus 46,021 ce of printed materials. In 1949, 14,931 juan/ce of Hengshan county republican archives in 39 quanzong were seized as the KMT sought to take them away. They included all the land records, some KMT, Youth Corps and court records, documents on local militia and registers of weapons. It is unclear whether these records still survive in the Hengshan county archives, if they are still kept by the public security bureau, or if they were destroyed during the CR when 4,000 kilograms of Hengdong archives were disposed of in a campaign to simplify administration, now admitted to have been conducted in an inappropriate manner. From 1984, the archives began aggressively collecting historical archives from the public and by 1989 had collected Ming-Qing gazetteers, imperial decrees, local newspapers from the republican period and other materials. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Hengdong xianzhi 1992: 418-419, UCB/CCSL.
HENGNAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 衡 南 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, ceased functioning during CR. The total archives were reduced from 8,082 juan to 2,678 juan as a part of war preparation. 1989: 34,492 juan in 135 quanzong. Information on party history has been edited by the archives. Open.
SOURCE: Hengnan xianzhi 1992: 401, UCB/CCSL.
HUARONG COUNTY ARCHIVES 華 容 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1990: 21,100 juan in 60 quanzong, including 1,450 juan of historical archives, 18,000 juan of documentary archives, 1,603 juan of specialized archives, and 7,026 ce of printed materials. Open.
SOURCE: Huarong xianzhi 1992: 535-536, UCB/CCSL.
HUAYUAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 花 垣 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, ceased functioning during CR, resumed operations in 1968. Many archives were destroyed as a part of war preparation during 1970-72. 1985: 6,100 juan. The collection includes 275 juan of historical archives, 5,595 juan of documentary archives, 24 juan of technical archives and 206 juan of specialized archives. Printed materials: 5,190 ce. Open.
SOURCE: Huayuan xianzhi 1993: 354-355, UCB/CCSL.
HUAIHUA CITY ARCHIVES 懷 化 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1960, stopped working during CR, resumed operations in 1974. 1990: 30,719 juan of archives and materials in 287 quanzong, including 10,156 ce of printed materials. The archives suffered a great loss when many archives were destroyed as a part of war preparation in 1971
1. Archives after 1949 (1949-1983): 16,517 juan, occupying most of the collection. These include archives from the CCP District Committee and its subordinate departments. Notable among these are the Correspondence Office (Xinfang ban) and several temporary offices--Cadre Investigation Office (Shengan ban), Intellectual Youth Office (Zhiqing ban), Office for Elimination of Counterrevolutionaries (Sufan ban), and offices for the Three-Anti and Five-Anti campaigns. Archives from the district government and subordinate offices during the Cultural Revolution are included.
2. Republican archives: 379 juan, mostly published materials, plus a few items from local KMT archives. The gazetteer counts 112 juan of republican archives, but also notes that in 1988, 168 juan in 3 quanzong of republican archives were opened to the public.
3. Printed Materials: Qing era local gazetteers and newspapers from after 1949.
The archives have edited A Brief History of Natural Disasters in Huaihua during The Last Thousand Years and The Evolution of Administrative Divisions in Huaihua.
SOURCE: Huaihua shizhi 1994: 738-739, UCB/CCSL; DAXTX 1985.3: 35-36, Hoover.
HUITONG COUNTY ARCHIVES 會 同 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. In 1972, the archives were reduced from 4,203 juan to 1,105 juan as part of efforts for war preparation. 1988: 19,622 juan in 127 quanzong; 18,194 ce of printed materials. The collections include republican archives from the KMT county committee, government, security forces, police office; local gazetteers and genealogies such as Huitong xianzhi, Jingzhou zhili zhouzhi, and Xiangxi xiangtu diaocha huibian; also Huitong minbao, Huitong tongsu xunkan, Xinan daily and other local newspapers. The contemporary archives are mainly from county party and government administration and offices in the qu, xiang, and towns; technical archives and special archives (land and property registers, census records, place name surveys, agricultural tax and personnel records). Edited materials published by the archives include Chronology of events in Huitong, Institutional history of Huitong, County magistrates in Huitong, History of natural disasters in Huitong. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Hutong xianzhi 1994: 816-818, UCB/CCSL.
JIANGHUA YAO AUTONOMOUS COUNTY ARCHIVES 江 華 瑤 族 自 治 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, stopped working during CR, restored in 1969. Holdings: 11,027 juan in 226 quanzong (1908-1989), including 316 juan of special archives, 32 ce of tapes and videos, 3,936 ce of printed materials, 45 juan of family genealogies; also including republican history materials. In 1949, all the republican archives were taken over by the new government. Though many suffered damage from inadequate storage facilities in the early 1950s, the remainder were organized into 850 juan in 1957, at which time they represented 84% of the total collection. Open.
SOURCE: Jianghua yaozu zizhi xianzhi 1994: 492, UCB/CCSL.
JIANGYONG COUNTY ARCHIVES 江 永 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. Many archives were destroyed as a part of war preparation (over 75% of the collection, but mostly PRC archives) in 1971-72. 1990: 18,202 juan/ce of archives and printed materials. The holdings include 383 juan in 2 quanzong of historical archives, 8,621 juan in 86 quanzong of documentary archives, 846 juan of specialized archives, 8,252 ce of printed materials. The archives undertook 6 collecting campaigns from 1958-1990 and 408 juan of family genealogies were collected. Open. Catalogues.
SOURCE: Jiangyong xianzhi 1995: 596-597, UCB/CCSL.
JINSHI CITY ARCHIVES 津 市 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, stopped working during CR, restored at the close of 1960s. 1990: 20,287 juan in 106 quanzong. From 1959-63, 48 juan of republican archives were collected, also Lizhouzhi, genealogies, memoirs and other historical materials totaling 229 items. Open.
SOURCE: Jinshi zhi 1993: 656-657, UCB/CCSL.
LEIYANG CITY ARCHIVES 耒 陽 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, closed during CR. During the CR, the "rebel" faction took control of the archives and holdings were reduced from 9,037 juan (1964) to 5,640 (1971) by theft or destruction. In 1972, a further leftist "simplification" of archives reduced holdings to 3,184 juan. In addition many valuable revolutionary history materials held in the Jiang lineage hall were burned during the CR. 1990: 33,618 juan in 156 quanzong; 5,286 ce of printed materials. From 1982-86, the archives collected the Leiyang xianzhi (1885), Leiyang xian xiangtu zhi, genealogies, 203 juan of revolutionary history archives including 2,238 items of materials and 31 mall the archives were moved to the Xinhua County Archives. The city was reestablished in 1969, and from 1975, the city archives began to collect archives stored in various places. The archives has genealogies, photo archives of the old streets and the city. Catalogues, introduction of quanzong. Open.
SOURCE: Lengshuijiang shizhi 1994:570-573, UCB/CCSL
LILING CITY ARCHIVES 醴 陵 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1990: 24,562 juan in 127 quanzong. The archives include 1,790 juan of historical archives, 18,678 juan of documentary archives, 240 juan of technical archives, and 3,854 juan of specialized archives; plus 3,702 juan of printed materials and 370 ce of genealogies and gazetteers. Information on major events and important historical figures in Liling has been edited by the archives. Open.
SOURCE: Liling shizhi 1995: 772, UCB/CCSL.
LING COUNTY ARCHIVES 酃 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1963, stopped working during 1968-72, resumed operations in 1973. 1990: 12,330 juan in 100 quanzong; 4,345 ce of printed materials. From 1981-87, 473 juan of republican archives (received from the public security bureau), 109 ce of genealogies, and 18 ce of local gazetteers were collected by the archives. Information on institutional history and party history has been edited by the archives. Open.
SOURCE: Ling xianzhi 1994: 467, UCB/CCSL.
LINGLING COUNTY ARCHIVES 零 陵 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, stopped working during CR, resumed operations in 1978. Holdings: 9,092 juan/ce of archives and printed materials, including 6,492 juan of documentary archives in 48 quanzong. A preservation effort has restored 301 juan of historical archives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Lingling xianzhi 1992: 122-123, UCB/CCSL.
LIUYANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 瀏 陽 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, disbanded during CR, restored in 1973. 1987: 18,323 juan in 54 quanzong. The collection includes 203 ce of Ming-Qing archives, 957 juan of republican archives and 53 juan of revolutionary history archives. The contemporary archives contain 15,044 juan of documentary, 117 juan of technical, 1,697 ce of special and 252 boxes of tapes and videos archives. Printed materials: 8,798 ce, including 457 ce of historical materials. The republican archives were received from the public security bureau in 1958-59; then in 1969, 421 juan/ce of republican archives and materials were returned to public security. Present holdings seem to be from 958 juan of archives and 88 ce of materials received back from public security in 1983-84. Open.
SOURCE: Liuyang xianzhi 1994: 743-745, UCB/CCSL.
LONGHUI COUNTY ARCHIVES 隆 回 縣檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1987: 21,153 juan in 200 quanzong; 3,192 ce of printed materials. There were also 45,200 juan of documentary archives, 1,510 juan of technical archives, 85,000 juan of account archives, 5,600 juan of specialized archives and 15,000 ce of printed materials kept in archives offices of various units countywide. The archives suffered serious damage during CR, and its holdings of 18,995 juan were reduced to 4,870 juan as part of war preparation and simplified administration efforts in 1971. Open.
SOURCE: Longhui xianzhi 1994: 518-519, UCB/CCSL.
LUXI COUNTY ARCHIVES 瀘 溪 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1985: 12,303 juan/ce. There were also 12,300 juan of archives in grass-root archives offices countywide. Most Qing and republican archives were destroyed in a bandit attack in March 1949; the remnants were taken over by the new regime in November 1949. The gazetteer briefly describes a rather elaborate Ming storehouse and storage system for local archives. Open.
SOURCE: Luxi xianzhi 1993: 143-144, UCB/CCSL.
NINGXIANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 寧 鄉 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958, under military control during CR, resumed operations in 1977. 1990: 37,000 juan (items) of Ming-Qing archives; 18,000 juan of republican archives in 5 quanzong; 200 juan in 1 quanzong of revolutionary history archives; 19,146 juan in 178 quanzong of contemporary archives; plus 3,200 ce of printed materials. [This is one of the larger reported collections of Qing and republican archives in the country; but little is reported of its contents.] Open.
SOURCE: Ningxiang xianzhi 1995: 478-479, UCB/CCSL.
PINGJIANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 平 江 縣檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1985: 20,481 juan/ce of archives and printed materials, including 1,467 juan of republican archives, 23 juan of revolutionary history archives, 13,063 juan of documentary, 143 juan of technical, and 1,130 juan of specialized archives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Pingjiang xianzhi 1994: 605, UCB/CCSL.
TAOJIANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 桃 江 縣檔 案 館
Est. 1958, ceased functioning during CR with a loss of many archives, restored in 1974. Holdings: 27,596 juan in 183 quanzong. The collection includes 424 juan of republican archives, 2 juan of revolutionary history archives, 32 juan of family genealogies, 9 juan of gazetteers. The contemporary archives include 21,635 juan of documentary, 211 juan of technical, 5,215 juan of specialized and 41 juan of personnel archives. Printed materials: 4,949 ce. Information on institutional history, local products, and major events in Taojiang has been edited by the archives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Taojiang xianzhi 1993: 454-456, UCB/CCSL.
WANGCHENG COUNTY ARCHIVES 望 城 縣檔 案 館
Est. 1958, merged with Changsha county archives in 1959, restored in 1978. 1987: 97 quanzong; 15,287 juan of archives and printed materials. The archives include 206 juan of historical archives, 8,439 juan of documentary, 126 juan of technical, 10 juan of photo, 1,486 juan of account, and 1,085 juan of personnel archives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Wangcheng xianzhi 1995: 646, UCB/CCSL.
XIANGXIANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 湘 鄉 縣檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1986: 24,814 juan in 83 quanzong of archives and printed materials. The holdings include republican documentary archives. The PRC archives are from the county committee, government, their subordinate departments, mass associations and enterprises, including documentary, technical, account archives, culture revolution archives, archives of deceased cadres, census archives, and photos. The materials include Qing Xiangxiang xianzhi, and such local republican newspapers as Xiangxiang minbao, minyibao, Qingnian daily, Minfengbao, Taokan xunbao. In 1964-65 and again in 1970-71, over 70% of the collection (including many valuable archives) was eliminated in two successive administrative "simplifications" Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Xiangxiang xianzhi 1993: 824-827, UCB/CCSL.
XIANGYIN COUNTY ARCHIVES 湘 陰 縣檔 案 館
Est. 1958, closed under military control during 1966-69, restored in 1970. 1985: 21,083 juan of archives, including 1,200 juan of historical archives, 13,908 juan of documentary archives, and 5,515 juan of specialized archives. The republican archives include 105 juan from the county government, 27 juan from the assembly, 92 juan from the KMT party committee, 27 juan from intelligence, 64 juan from the judiciary, 608 juan of lawsuits, 15 juan from the self-defense forces, 92 juan from the Youth Corps, 8 juan from rural military cadres, 10 juan from the post and telegraph, and 53 juan of identity papers. Photos. Open.
SOURCE: Xiangyin xianzhi 1995: 595-596, UCB/CCSL.
XINHUANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 新 晃 縣檔 案 館
Est. 1958, ceased functioning during CR, resumed operations in 1973. Holdings: 22,891 juan in 195 quanzong.
Historical archives: 2,235 juan, from the KMT party committee, county government, military, police, justice, finance and trade, education, transport, post and telegraph, and public health.
Contemporary archives: 18,178 juan of documentary archives, 134 juan of technical archives, 2,349 juan of specialized archives, 20 boxes of tapes and videos, photos and seals.
Printed materials: 13,376 juan.
Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Xinhuang xianzhi 1993: 653-655, UCB/CCSL.
XINSHAO COUNTY ARCHIVES 新 邵 縣檔 案 館
Est. 1958. Archives were severely destroyed during CR. Not only were all the house and land registers from the land reform period were burned, but the total archives were reduced from 11,282 juan to 5,435 juan as a part of war preparations in 1971. 1989: 32,899 juan.
Qing archives: 24 juan, including deeds, genealogies, marriage records, disaster records, and biographies.
Republican archives: 89 juan, from the KMT county committee, government, military, police and schools. Also included are materials on the war against Japan.
Contemporary archives: 32,786 juan in 112 quanzong, including documentary archives from the county committee, government departments, and mass associations; specialized archives (census, place names, and industrial surveys); technical archives, tapes and videos and archives in kind.
Printed materials: 17,567 ce.
Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Xinshao xianzhi 1994: 582, UCB/CCSL.
XUPU COUNTY ARCHIVES 漵 蒲 縣檔 案 館
Est. 1959. The total archives were reduced from over 8,000 juan to 3,010 juan during CR. 1985: 30,030,352 juan/ce (sic; 30,352?).
Historical archives: 806 juan (though elsewhere, 1,373 juan are to have been opened), from the KMT county committee, Youth Corps, government, assembly, land tax office, department of education, department of justice, peasants’ association, secret societies, schools and the Catholic church; also Xupu xianzhi, Chenzhou fuzhi, Xupu minbao, Minzhong bao, Longtan bao, Qingnian daily, Xupu xueyou and genealogies.
Revolutionary history archives: 21 juan, including materials on the peasant associations and suppression of local tyrants in 1927, and such progressive newspapers as Husheng bao, Wuyue, Xinchangcheng.
Contemporary archives: including documentary archives from government departments from before 1983, special archives (industrial and soil surveys, census), technical archives, photos and seals.
The Xupu County Archives have opened 1,373 juan [sic] of historical archives, represented 73 percent of the archives that qualify for opening (ying kaifang) and 10 percent of the archives over 30 years old, and over 10,000 ce of printed materials. Catalogues.
SOURCE: Xupu xianzhi 1993: 557-558, UCB/CCSL; HNDA 1988.4: 13, Hoover.
YOU COUNTY ARCHIVES 攸 縣檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1986: 31,697 juan in 75 quanzong. Included are 30 juan of revolutionary history archives, 208 juan of gazetteers and genealogies, 18,421 juan of contemporary documentary archives in 72 quanzong, 210 juan of technical archives, 1,329 juan of special archives. Printed materials: 10,123 ce. The gazetteer also mentions 2,100 juan (items) of archives left from the republican period. Open.
SOURCE: You xianzhi 1990: 573-575, UCB/CCSL.
YUANJIANG COUNTY ARCHIVES 沅 江 縣檔 案 館
Est. 1958. 1985: 185 quanzong; 32,200 juan/ce of archives and printed materials, including 15,700 juan of documentary archives, 10,200 juan of specialized archives, 33 juan of tapes and videos; 6,209 ce of printed materials. The 379 juan of republican archives have been reproduced in an effort to preserve them..
SOURCE: Yuanjiang xianzhi 1991: 172-173, UCB/CCSL.
YUANLING COUNTY ARCHIVES 沅 陵 縣檔 案 館
Est. 1958. From 1970 to 1973, 47% of the total holdings (3,681 of 7,826 juan) were eliminated as part of the effort for war preparation. 1987: 35,661 juan in 187 quanzong. The collection includes 4,111 juan of old regime archives, 5 juan of revolutionary history archives, 25,275 juan of (contemporary) documentary archives, 5,809 juan of special archives, 7 juan of technical archives, 30 juan of tapes and videos. Open.
SOURCE: Yuanling xianzhi 1993: 621-622, UCB/CCSL.
ZHIJIANG TONG AUTONOMOUS COUNTY ARCHIVES 芷 江 侗 族 自 治 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1958; disbanded in 1970; resumed work at 1973. The archives destroyed about half of its collection in 1965 and again in 1970. 1989: 25,728 juan in 139 quanzong, including 1,150 juan of republican archives turned over to the archives from the public security bureau in 1982. Catalogues. Publications include chronologies of local events and an index to archives on the elimination of bandits in western Hunan. Open.
SOURCE: Zhijiang xianzhi 1993:576-577, UCB/CCSL.
Note: Archives names for Inner Mongolia follow the conventions in 中 國 檔 案 館 名 錄 (English title: Directory of Chinese National Archives) ed. by State Archives Bureau (Beijing: Archives Press, 1990). Place names are given in romanized Mongol, with romanized Chinese in parentheses, then Chinese characters.
AOHAN BANNER ARCHIVES 敖 漢 旗 檔 案 館 館
Est. 1959, stopped work during CR, resumed operations in 1979. 1985: 14,263 juan in 51 quanzong. The holdings include 181 juan of revolutionary history archives (1945-49) from Xindong and Xinhui counties, and Aohan Banner on front-line support, land reform, bandit suppression, and production; 14,084 juan of documentary archives, 111 juan of technical archives, 5 boxes of tapes. Printed materials: 5,689 ce, including Xinhui xiankuang (Xinhui County conditions, 1938), Ji-Re-Liao zhengbao (1944) and Qunshengbao (1947). Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Aohan qizhi 1991: 926-928, UCB/CCSL.
AR HOQIN (ALUKE’ERQIN) BANNER ARCHIVES 阿 魯 科 爾 沁 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1959; disbanded in 1966; resumed work in 1971. 1988: 10,330 juan in 60 quanzong, including 79 juan of historical archives, also documentary, scientific and technical, and special archives; 6,600 ce of printed materials. Open.
SOURCE: Aluke’erqin qizhi 1994:949-950, UCB/CCSL
ARUN (A’RONG) BANNER ARCHIVES 阿 榮 旗 檔 案 館 案 館
Est. 1959, disbanded during CR, restored in 1970. 1990: 7,846 juan of documentary archives in 65 quanzong, including 3,240 juan of permanent archives and 3,041 juan of long-term archives; 78 juan of technical archives, 1,487 juan of special archives, and 9,009 ce of printed materials. In 1967, 3,408 juan of archives were burned in a fire. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: A’rong qizhi 1992: 871-872, UCB/CCSL.
BAIRIN (BALIN) RIGHT BANNER ARCHIVES 巴 林 右 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, disbanded during CR and many archives were lost, resumed operations in 1977. 1986: 11,133 juan of archives. All archives from the puppet government were destroyed by the Japanese in 1945.
SOURCE: Balin youqizhi 1990: 518-519, UCB/CCSL.
ERGUN (E’ERGUNA) RIGHT BANNER ARCHIVES 額 爾 古 納 右 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1959; disbanded in CR; the archives were badly damaged and many lost; resumed work in 1973. 1990: 10,454 juan of documentary archives and 2,905 juan of scientific and special archives; 8,649 ce of printed materials. Pre-PRC archives of the former Shiwei county (室 韋 ), Qiqian county (奇 乾 ), and the Left and Right Banners of E’erguna from 1928 to 1949 are included. The PRC archives are from the administration of the Banner on issues of organization, propaganda, statistics, economy, foreign affairs, justice, public affairs, and birth control. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: E’erguna youqizhi 1993:751-754 UCB/CCSL
HEXIGTEN (KESHIKETENG) BANNER ARCHIVES 克 什 克 騰 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1990: 12,014 juan of documentary archives, 350 juan of technical archives, 3 boxes of photos, 2,407 books and 6,286 issues of newspapers and periodicals. There were also 18,769 juan of documentary archives, 2,088 juan of technical archives and 121,499 juan of account archives kept in various bureau-level archives offices. One hundred seventy-seven juan of historical archives and 2,021 juan of contemporary archives have been opened.
SOURCE: Keshketeng qizhi 1993: 765-766, UCB/CCSL.
HORQIN (KE’ERQIN) LEFT WING REAR BANNER ARCHIVES 科 爾 沁 左 翼 後 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. Holdings: 36,769 juan in 42 quanzong. These include 930 juan from the puppet government from 1931-45; 60 juan of revolutionary history archives from 1946-49; 17,390 juan in 35 quanzong of contemporary documentary archives. Printed materials: 7,809 ce. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Ke’erqin zouyi houqizhi 1993: 799-801, 446, UCB/CCSL.
HORQIN (KE’ERQIN) RIGHT WING MIDDLE BANNER ARCHIVES 科 爾 沁 右 翼 中 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1987: 23,895 juan / ce of archives and printed materials, including documentary, law suit, deceased cadre, statistical, and other archives; there are 5,045 ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Ke’erqin youyi zhongqizhi 1993:713-714, UCB/CCSL
JALAID (ZALAITE) BANNER ARCHIVES 扎 賚 特 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1978: 1,318 juan of archives. In 1981, 3,725 juan of archives from 1949-81 and 1,900 ce of printed materials were received. The contents include documentary, technical, account, personnel and photos archives. Total holdings unclear. In 1985, there were also 10,005 juan of archives in various archives offices bannerwide.
SOURCE: Zhalaite qizhi 1993: 471, UCB/CCSL.
JUNGAR (ZHUNGE’ER) BANNER ARCHIVES 准 格 爾 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1990: 27,599 juan of archives and 10,356 ce of printed materials. The archives include documentary, technical and special archives. Mostly republican archives were burned in various wars. Surviving records include 134 ce of account books from the financial department and 1,271 items of archives from the puppet government. The Inner Mongolia Provincial Archives holds 108 boxes of annual appointment documents (niance 年 冊 ) of the banner prince’s administration from 1739 to the late Qing. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Zhunge’er qizhi 1993: 415, 446, UCB/CCSL.
NINGCHENG COUNTY ARCHIVES 寧 城 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1985: 14,387 juan in 60 quanzong. The holdings include 134 juan of revolutionary history archives. Printed materials: 10,983 ce. During CR, 5,731 juan of archives were eliminated, resulting in a loss of many valuable archives. Open.
SOURCE: Ningcheng xianzhi 1992: 803-804, UCB/CCSL.
ONGNIUD (WENGNIUTE) BANNER ARCHIVES 翁 牛 特 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, impacted during CR, restored in 1978. 1982: 3,312 juan of archives. Catalogued. Open. there were also 17,306 juan of archives in various archives offices banner-wide in 1983, including 900 juan of technical archives.
SOURCE: Wengniute qizhi 1993: 640-641, UCB/CCSL.
OROQEN (E’LUNCHUN) AUTONOMOUS BANNER ARCHIVES 鄂 倫 春 自 治 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, severely damaged during CR. 1988: 34 quanzong. The holdings include 3,194 juan of documentary archives (1,801 juan of permanent and 610 juan of long-term archives), 1,064 juan of account archives, 143 juan of archives of deceased cadres, 127 juan on disciplined cadres; 66 juan of industrial survey; photos; 7,628 ce of printed materials. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: E’lunchun zizhi qizhi 1991: 649-651, UCB/CCSL.
OTOG (ETUOKE ) BANNER ARCHIVES 鄂 托 克 旗 檔 案 館 館
Est. 1957. 1989: 33,740 juan/ce of archives and printed materials (1,259 juan in Mongolian language). The holdings include 13,699 juan of documentary, 8,355 juan of technical, 795 juan of special, and 65 juan of personnel archives; plus 10,846 ce of printed materials. Most historical archives are kept in the I Ju League (伊 克 昭 盟 ) archives, and the puppet government archives in the Banner Public Security Bureau. The banner archives include 5 juan of CCP membership lists and meeting minutes from 1947-49. In 1959, 119 items of historical archives were collected, of which, 69 items were documents from the salt bureau from 1949 and 50 items were old regime archives (mostly in Mongolian). In 1946 most of the old Mongol prince and local government archives were taken to a nearby temple for safekeeping, but they were destroyed in the 1950s when the temple was occupied and dismantled by local collectives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Etuoke qizhi 1993: 806-810, UCB/CCSL.
ULAN HOT (WULANHAOTE) CITY ARCHIVES 烏 蘭 浩 特 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1980. 1990: 10,994 juan in 55 quanzong. The holdings include revolutionary history archives from 1946-49. The PRC archives are from the city party committee, government, their subordinate offices, mass associations and disbanded units, and include documentary, technical, account, statistical, industrial survey and personnel archives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Wulanhaote shizhi 1993: 835-837, UCB/CCSL.
URAD (WULATE) FRONT BANNER ARCHIVES 烏 拉 特 前 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1963: 8,224 juan, including 384 juan of historical archives. In 1970, 8,314 juan of archives were burned, representing 51% of the total holdings. In 1989, there are 22,812 juan in 78 quanzong, including documentary, financial, lawsuit, personnel, and audio-visual archives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Wulate qianqizhi 1994: 880-881, UCB/CCSL.
URAD (WULATE) MIDDLE BANNER ARCHIVES 烏 拉 特 中 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1987: 10,972 juan of archives in 40 quanzong, including documentary, technical, financial, personnel and old regime archives. There are 839 juan of archives in Mongolian and 4,508 juan of archives in both Mongolian and Chinese. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Wulate zhongqizhi 1994: 609-610, UCB/CCSL.
URAD (WULATE) REAR BANNER ARCHIVES 烏 拉 特 後 旗 檔 案 館
Est. 1973. 1988: 7,372 juan in 37 quanzong. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Wulate houqizhi 1992: 427-428, UCB/CCSL.
WUCHUAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 武 川 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1986: 48,668 juan/ce in 58 quanzong. Information on disasters, population, administration and meetings have been edited by the archives. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Wuchuan xianzhi 1988: 574-576, UCB/CCSL.
BAOYING COUNTY ARCHIVES 寶 應 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1989: 25,566 juan in 110 quanzong (1928-1987), including 98 quanzong of PRC archives; 6,833 ce of printed materials; local gazetteers and genealogies. In 1965, 3,325 juan of unnecessary archives with a total of 12,885 items were eliminated. Since 1983, 1,299 juan of historical archives have been catalogued and 233 items of revolutionary history archives collected. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Baoying xianzhi, 1994: 798-800, UCB/CCSL.
CHANGZHOU CITY ARCHIVES 常 州 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, disbanded during CR, resumed operations in 1979. 1985: 24,625 juan in 76 quanzong of documentary archives from the city party committee, government and their subordinate offices, associations and enterprises (1949-80); 17,554 juan of special archives, mostly on industry and commerce; 64 juan of photo negatives for news and 240 other negatives; 13 juan of archives on local products; 183 boxes of microfilms. Holdings also include 2,682 juan of republican archives in 21 quanzong (of which 2,079 juan were received from public security in the 1980s) and 104 juan of revolutionary history archives; 9 editions of Changzou gazetteers (56 ce); plus 13,000 ce of printed materials. There were one city construction archives with a holding of 2,274 juan in 1985 and 593 archives offices citywide. Open. Catalogues.
SOURCE: Changzhou shizhi, 1995: 507-516, UCB/CCSL.
DONGHAI COUNTY ARCHIVES 東 海 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1962. Holdings: 28,901 juan in 141 quanzong, including 103 juan in 4 quanzong of republican archives. PRC archives are divided into 14 sections, including documentary, technical, census, industrial survey, statistical, financial, deceased cadre, and photo archives. Printed materials: 18,592 ce. Catalogues. Open.
SOURCE: Donghai xianzhi, 1994: 699-700, UCB/CCSL.
DONGTAI CITY ARCHIVES 東 臺 市 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1987: 44,186 juan of PRC archives, 1,281 juan of historical archives, and audio-visual archives in a total of 146 quanzong; 24,210 ce of printed materials in 698 titles. After the CCP take-over in 1948, the Public Security Bureau organized 1,164 juan of KMT government archives. Then in 1957, it took 585 juan of KMT party archives and CCP revolutionary base documents from the Anti-Japanese War and turned them over to the Jiangsu provincial government. The PRC archives are mainly from the county government and its subordinate offices. There are also special archives. Open.
SOURCE: Dongtai shizhi 1994:846-847, UCB/CCSL
FENG COUNTY ARCHIVES 豐 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, disrupted by CR, resumed operations in 1978. 1989: 28,899 juan of archives (DAGZQS: 29,423) in (1985) 75 quanzong (1569-1980), including documentary, technical, account, statistical, personnel, census, industrial survey, and audio-visual archives. In 1938, the Guomindang government sent land survey registers away for safekeeping, but it is unclear if any have survived. Catalogues. Open. The 1985 holdings were described as follows:.
Gazetteers and genealogies: Feng zianzhi (1569 and Qing), and a genealogy of Liu Bang, the first emperor of Han dynasty (Dazang chaochen yuantian jializhuan).
Republican archives (1912-48): 302 juan, including documentary and lawsuits archives from the KMT county organs on party affairs, administration, military affairs, economy, education, religion and public associations. Important materials contain 50 juan of diaries by Huang Tirui, head of the KMT party in Feng county, dated from June1932 to March 1948, Outline of Wartime Feng County (1944), Wartime Education in Feng County (1943) and Fengbao.
Revolutionary history archives: 25 juan (1928-48), including documents from revolutionary organizations. Important materials include manuscripts of diaries, a list of martyrs, and reports and photos about the founders of party organizations in Feng county.
PRC archives: 12,985 juan (1949-80), from the county committee, government and their subordinate offices, enterprises and some xiang and zhen.
Printed materials: 8,202 ce. Gazetteers and genealogies
SOURCE: Feng xianzhi, 1994: 753-755, Xuzhou shizhi, 1994: 2350-2351, UCB/CCSL; DAGZQS: 440.
GUANNAN COUNTY ARCHIVES 灌 南 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1960, disrupted by CR with a severe loss of archives. Over 1,800 juan of archives were saved in 1971. 1987: 31,473 juan in 112 quanzong 淮 陰 縣 檔 案 館
Before established as the county archives in 1964 (when Huaiyin county and city were separated), archives were kept in Huaiyin city archives from 1958 to 1964. 1987: 38,544 juan of archives and printed materials. Holdings include 63 juan in 6 quanzong of historical archives; 35 juan in 4 quanzong of revolutionary history archives; 9,437 juan in 51 quanzong of documentary archives; and 18,559 juan of special archives. There are no statistical figures on archives from the period 1964-79.
SOURCE: Huaiyin xianzhi, 1996: 530-531, UCB/CCSL.
JIANGDU COUNTY ARCHIVES 江 都 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, ceased functioning during CR, restored in 1978. 1993: 37,489 juan in 151 quanzong; 10,585 ce of printed materials. In 1987, 5,085 juan of republican, statistical and disciplinary archives were collected. There are also account archives, city construction archives, education archives and medical archives countywide. Catalogues (20 types, in 835 ce). Open.
SOURCE: Jiangdu xianzhi, 1996: 891-894, UCB/CCSL.
JIANGNING COUNTY ARCHIVES 江 寧 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959, stopped work during CR, resumed in 1978. 1985: 25,581 juan in 147 quanzong, including republican archives, revolutionary history archives and contemporary archives; 4,576 ce printed materials. Open.
SOURCE: Jiangning xianzhi, 1989: 557, UCB/CCSL.
JIANGYIN COUNTY ARCHIVES 江 陰 縣 檔 案 館
Est. 1959. 1987: 28,457 juan in 91 quanzong, including 7 quanzong of historical archives; 5,247 ce of printed materials. The earliest documents, dated from 1912, include reports from the county procuratorate and court on financial allocations, government income and expenditures, and reports on the pardon of 25 prisoners. There are only 55 juan of archives from before the war against Japan in 1937. In 1949, 4,053 juan of republican archives from the KMT county committee, government, police, security force and various associations were taken over and kept in the Public Security Bureau. In 1982, Public Security transferred (all?) old regimes records to the archives, and these were sorted into 3,519 juan. In 1966 1,204 juan of land reform documents were catalogue