Internet resources for international relations

Undertaken by two Austrian scholars, Dr. Monika Lehner and
Dr. George Lehner, both of whom are experts with Chinese
rare books, Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 is a project that aims at
collecting information and links of freely available e-books
on China and Sino-Western encounters from various open
access repositories.

China, America and the Pacific explores the cultural and
trading relationships that emerged between America, China
and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th
centuries. Manuscripts, rare printed sources, visual images,
objects and maps from international libraries and archives
document this fascinating history.

The China-Africa Knowledge Project Resource Hub is a one-
stop shop for researchers and practitioners working on the
China-Africa relationship. As the primary platform for the
work of the Social Science Research Council's China-Africa
Knowledge Project, this site actively builds generative
connections between scholars across disciplines and regions
while organizing a growing and fragmented body of knowledge
and connecting it to important trends in the social sciences
relevant for understanding Africa's new international
relations.

ChinaFile is an online magazine published by the Center on
U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, dedicated to promoting
an informed, nuanced, and vibrant public conversation about
China, in the U.S. and around the world.

This resource, published in six parts, makes available the
complete British Foreign Office files dealing with China,
Hong Kong and Taiwan during these decades. The documents
combine eyewitness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries,
annual reviews, reports and analyses with a synthesis of
newspaper articles and conference reports, economic
assessments and synopses on leading Chinese personalities.
There is a constant exchange of information between London
and British diplomatic outposts in China and a continual
dialogue on issues relating to East Asia between Britain
and America as well as with European and Commonwealth
partners. Sino-Soviet relations also become a very
important consideration in the Cold War era.

The London Missionary Society's collection of
Chinese books has been digitized and made
available online by the National Library of
Australia. This special collection comprises over
500 printed books gathered by LMS missionaries
during the late Qing period. These include
missionary publications such as Christian tracts,
as well as non-missionary books, manuscript items,
books related to the Taiping Rebellion and so on.
These materials are interesting primary sources
for Chinese history and religion studies.

Previously known as the Political Sicence Review, the
Taiwanese Journal of Political Science is published by the
Dept. of Political Sicence of the National Taiwan
University, and is a key academic journal on political
science. The journal was originally issued biannually, but
since June, 2004, it has been published on a quarterly
basis.

The Chinese Foreign Policy Database enhances the ability of
contemporary observers and historians to gain broader
perspectives on Chinese policies. Curating 1000s of
documents from Chinese and international archives, it offers
insights into China’s foreign policy since 1949 and its
relationship to ideology, revolution, the economy, and
traditional Chinese culture.

This collection provides complete FCO 7 and FCO 82 files
for the entire period of Richard Nixon’s presidency. Top-
level Anglo-American discussions and briefing papers
dominate these papers. There is also a wealth of material
on social conditions, domestic reforms, trade, culture and
the environment. In addition, there is strong coverage of
US policy decisions by the FCO and the British embassy in
Washington; White House staff appointments and UN
discussions; views on Europe; the deployment of F-111
aircraft on US airbases in the UK and Nixon’s battles over
funding from Congress; visits to the US by Harold Wilson
and Edward Heath; and the internal situation in the US and
domestic reform. There are also detailed assessments of
all the changes brought about by the presidential election
of 1972, in which Nixon beat George McGovern by a record-
breaking margin and in every state but one, only to resign
two years later in the face of almost certain impeachment.