China’s Wartime History; Notes on International Efforts for Preservation and Access  

Oleh:

Kirby, William C. ; Cheng, Linsun

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Modern China vol. 25 no. 1 (Jan. 1999), page 100-104.
Topik: Notes on International Efforts for Preservation and Access
Fulltext: 100MC251.pdf (65.68KB)

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Any scholar who has worked in the historical materials of China’s War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945) knows how fragile they are. Whatever their form—from hand-scrawled document drafts to printed pamphlets, books, or journals—they are likely to be on the poorest of paper, often nearly transparent, always highly acidic. This alone would have given them a short shelf life as historical sources, had they remained on the shelves. But because of the nature of thewar and the subsequent civilwar, with armies, governments, and academic institutions all on the move, many of these materials were carted from China’s coast to its interior provinces, or from the interior back to the coast, or both, and under the most difficult circumstances. When finally stored in the postwar years, adequate facilities for preservation and restoration were mostly nonexistent. Environmental conditions— high humidity, extremes of temperature, bugs—continued to assault the surviving volumes. China’s wartime historical materials have fed many a worm.

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