Government and Policy

Archives published to show Tibet part of China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-05-26 11:21

BEIJING - The China Tibetology Publishing House on Tuesday released a ten-volume compilation of Tibet's historical archives of the Republic of China period (1912-1949), providing a rich record of the southwestern region as a then administrative division of the country.

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The compilation, titled "Archives Compilation of Tibet and Tibetan Affairs Preserved by the Second Historical Archives of China," gives a record of the central government's policies on Tibet from 1912 to 1949 and measures taken to manage major events and issues in the region.

The compilation, as the first part of a 50-volume series, also includes documents that reflect the development of politics, economy, religion, culture and education in other Tibetan areas in the neighboring provinces of Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan.

The publication is the result of a key project jointly undertaken by the China Tibetology Research Center and the Second Historical Archives of China (SHAC) since November 2006.

The SHAC, a national-level archive under the State Archives Bureau, is responsible for conserving and processing the Republic of China era records.

According to its official website, the SHAC holds about 1,800,000 files of original records of the previous central government and its subordinate organs during the 1912-1949 period.