Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Various Embassies and Legations, China: General Correspondence, Series II

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Reference: FO 676
Title: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Various Embassies and Legations, China: General Correspondence, Series II
Description:

This series contains general correspondence of various legations and embassies to China. Comprises files of the legation at Peking from 1875; the embassy at Nanking, 1929 to 1948: the embassy at Shanghai, 1937 to 1940; and the embassy at Chungking, 1938 to 1945.

Date: 1875-1972
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Legation, China, 1968-1972

Foreign Office, Consulate, Chungking, China, 1837-1959

Foreign Office, Consulate, Nangking, China, 1914-1959

Foreign Office, Consulate, Shanghai, China, 1843-1941

Foreign Office, Legation, China, 1782-1968

Physical description: 569 file(s)
Restrictions on use: Additional safe handling procedures are in place. Records must be ordered in advance.
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1985 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The British legation to China, headed by a Charge d'Affaires, was upgraded to embassy status in 1972.

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