Documents in Chinese from the Chinese Secretary's Office, British Legation, Peking, 1861-1939
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3663114 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P D Coates (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 239-255 |
| Publication date | 1983-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00015626 |
| OpenAlex | W2162061125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
In 1959 a collection of over twenty thousand Chinese-language documents, previously kept in the rambling Peking compound which had housed the British Legation (latterly, British Embassy) since 1861, was transmitted to the Public Record Office in London. It was given the class title Papers in the Chinese Language and the class number FO 682. The documents, some of which were rumoured to have been lying among the rafters of the Legation chapel, arrived in a state of confusion. Early attempts at listing reflected rather than resolved the confusion, but the documents are in fact far from being the trackless jumble sometimes supposed
Art history · Business · Chapel · Chinese language · Class number · Confusion · Linguistics · Listing (finance · Lying · State (computer science · Chinese history and philosophy · Classics · Computer Science · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Mathematics · Medicine · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 2023 (30) |
| Highly cited | No |