Stanford now has on-campus trial access through May 9 to Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1929 and Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1980
www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk
Please take this opportunity to take a look at this database. If you have any questions or comments, please contact Qi Qiu, qqiu@stanford.edu.


Following the defeat of the Chinese empire in the Opium Wars and numerous military humiliations inflicted by western powers, by the late 19th century, the government of Late Qing dynasty initiated a series of reforms in an attempt to revitalize China. Many saw education as the critical part of this reform.