Denying Historians: China’s Archives Increasingly Off-Bounds - China Real
Time Report - WSJ

At last week’s meeting of the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century
China in Taipei, roughly 200 historians from Asia, the United States and
Europe gathered to share their latest research. But during lunch hours and
coffee breaks, the one question that kept popping up wasn’t about any given
paper or project. Instead it was: “How’s your archival access been lately?”

This wasn’t just idle conference chitchat.

Over the past few years, historians of China have grown increasingly
worried about changes they’ve seen at Chinese archives that threaten to
impede understanding of China at a time when such understanding is taking
on a growing importance. Many archives in mainland China have been
tightening access and imposing new restrictions on scholars, which can make
conducting academic research in China a time-consuming and frustrating
experience.


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Source:
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/08/19/denying-historians-chinas-archives-increasingly-off-bounds/
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