From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, the discovery of the Oracle Bones from the Yin Ruins, the Ancient Literature from Dunhuang, the Bamboo Slips of the Qin and the Han Dynasty, and the Ming and the Qing history archives of the Qing Palace Cabinet in China shocked the Chinese academic circle at that time, and with the development of the research on them, the disciplines of Studies of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Dunhuang Studies, and the Study of Bamboo Slips were established one after another, and became known to the world's academic circle. However, compared with the first three kinds of cultural heritage, the archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties did not form the “Study of Archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties” (the “Study of Archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties” did not form a famous study, in other words, it's also a potential discipline.), which undoubtedly caused us to think. To this end, we have made a preliminary compendium of the discovery of archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the work and research done by Chinese academics around it. Through this research, we believe that there is room for the growth of the “Study of Archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties”. We have tried to illustrate the current state of the “Study of Archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties” through some evidence and to make a discourse on the direction of its study and its objects of study.

Yuechao Wang, Jie Yang. The Archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the “Study of Archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties”. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 3: 34-41. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.070306.

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