Memorabilia
The Initial Stage of Documentation Rearrangement
Complete Check
Large-scale Rearrangement and Organization
Initialization of Digitization
| Hosted by Xu Zhongshu | 1929 | Purchased from Li Shengduo. Deashing, paving, mounting, and preliminary sorting were performed in the west wing of Wumen, Beiping. |
| 1930 | Published Historical Material of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: Book A Published The Ching Dynasy Official Documentation - Death of the Taiwanese Cheng's | |
| 1932 | Completed the concise catalog of important archives. | |
| 1933 | Published The Old Catalof of the Grand Secretariat Archive | |
| 1935 | Published Historical Material of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: Book B & C | |
| 1937 | When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the archives were transported southward in hundreds of boxes, and moved to Changsha, Kunming, Lizhuang, Nanjing, etc. | |
| 1948 | Historical Material of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: Book D was left in Shanghai, couldn't catch on the time to print | |
| 1949 | Archives arrived in Taiwan |
| Hosted by Li Guangtao | 1951 | Counting hundreds of boxes of archives shipped to Taiwan, a total of 311914 pieces |
| 1953 | Published Historical Material of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: Book E. Starting from 1967, successively publish Book F, G, H, I ,J. | |
| 1959 | Published Ming Qing Archive Essentials: Pilot | |
| 1970 | Published The Original Manchu Documents from Qing Taizu Dynasty 1 | |
| 1971 | Published The Original Manchu Documents from Qing Taizu Dynasty 2 | |
| 1973 | Published Ming Qing Archive Essentials: Episode 2 | |
| 1975 | Published Ming Qing Archive Essentials: Episode 3 |
| Hosted by Chang Wejen | 1981 | Documents were numbered and photocopied, and the original copies were sealed for storage. The photocopies are for publication and research purposes. |
| 1986 | Co-published The Ming Qing Archives with Linking Publishing (a total of 12 episodes; episode 1 to 10 are book version, with a total of 324 books, and episode 11 & 12 are DVD version). |
| Hosted by Liu Cheng-yun (1995-2001); Hosted by Ho Hanwei (2001-2003); Hosted by Chen Gwo-Dong (2003-2005); Hosted by Liu Cheng-yun (2005-2012); Hosted by Chen Hsiyuan (2012-present). | 1995 | Entered data after writing the archives. Established The Grand Secretariat Archive. |
| 1996 | Ended photocopying of the originals and insteaded started using image scanning and digital photography to save digitalized images. | |
| 1997 | Published Taiwanese Historical Document Catalog: Book 13 | |
| 1998 | Set up the "Grand Secretariat Archive" website to allow open access to online searching for content abstracts. | |
| 2001 | Expand the image security monitor system of the Grand Secretariat Archive, and open domestic online reading and full-text image printing services. | |
| 2002 | Participated in the "National Digital Collection Project" funded by the National Science Council of the Executive Yuan, cooperated with the sub-project of our "Digital Collection of Cultural Relics Sub-project" of the five "Grand Secretariat Archives" to accelerate the progress of digitizing the Grand Secreatariat archives. Also assisted in the establishment of "name and authority file" and "geographical name authority file." | |
| 2007 | In conjunction with the "National Digital Archives Project," our firm hosted the "Digital Knowledge Network of the Ming and Qing Archives" as part of the "Overall Digital Knowledge Management Project of the History and Language Institute-Expanding the Digital Archives in Taiwan." We carried out digitization works such as scroll-type archives, and assisted in the expansion of the biographical data of historical figures in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as the establishment of the "Ming and Qing historical dynamic map information system" and the "officials of the Qing Dynasty" database. | |
| 2011 | Integrated the Grand Secretariat Archives, the diplomatic archives of the Institute of Recent History, as well as the Database of the Ch'ing Palace Memorials and Archives of the Grand Council by the Palace Museum, and established a cross-database integrated retrieval platform. | |
| 2012 | Expanded the Grand Secretariat Archive system, and changed the file retrieval interface to a knowledge-base structure. Published "Compilation of Taiwanese Historical Data from the Grand Secretariat Archives." | |
| 2016 | Published "The First and Last Order of the Emperor" | |
| 2019 | Published "The Grand Celebration of the Celestial Dynasty: The Grand Emperial Celebration". |