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The Grand Secretariat Archives housed in the Institute of History and Philology consist of approximately 310,000 items. These include imperial edicts, court letters, source materials collected for compiling historical writings, examination papers, confidential documents of foreign nations, inter-office correspondences of the Grand Secretariat, and so on. Its contents are extremely variegated and very useful to scholars and students researching a diverse array of topics of Ming and Qing history. |