Listed below, going under various names, "central files", "general files", "confidential files", or decimal files, are records taken from the Department of State's Internal and Foreign Affairs subject classifications of files now housed in the U. S. National Archives. This material consists mainly of reports, documents and correspondence received from and sent to diplomatic posts covering a wide range of reporting on political, military, social and economic developments, minutes, interviews, texts of letters and instructions, and foreign documents and translations of foreign documents.
To date the Library has the following series for China:
| China: Internal Affairs |
1910-1929 |
277 reels, nearly complete |
Please inquire, M-329 |
| China-United States |
1910-1929 |
2 reels |
Please inquire, M-339 |
| China: Foreign Affairs |
1910-1929 |
34 reels |
Please inquire, M-341 |
| China-Japan |
1930-1944 |
reels 1-20; 65-79
of 96 reels |
Please inquire, M-976 |
| United States - China Relations |
1940-1949 |
7 reels & printed guide |
E183.8 C5 C716 1985a. |
| China: Internal Affairs |
1945-1949 |
75 reels & printed guide |
DS777.535 C66 1984x |
| China: Internal Affairs |
1945-1949 |
75 reels microfilm & printed guide |
DS777.535 C66 1984x |
| China: Internal Affairs |
1950-1954 |
47 reels microfilm & printed guide |
SEA DS777.547 C66 1985x |
| China: Foreign Affairs |
1950-1954 |
6 reels microfilm & guide |
DS777.8 C65 1985x |
| China: Internal Affairs |
1955-1959 |
48 reels microfilm & guide |
DS777.75 C65 1987x |
| China: Foreign Affairs |
1955-1959 |
10 reels microfilm &guide |
DS777.8 C66 1987x |
| China: Foreign Affairs |
1960-1963 |
5 microfilm reels |
DS777.8 C662 1998x |
| China: Internal Affairs |
1960-January 1963 |
27 microfilm reels |
DS777.547 C664 1998x |
China, part 1: political governmental,
and national defense affairs |
February 1963-January 1966 |
41 microfilm reels |
DS777.547 C665 2001a |
