Director's Statement               Nanjing is rich in historical and cultural sites.Entering through the Zhong Shan gate your eyes will be drawn first to the Ming dynasty palace relics and then a building in grand ancient-style architecture. This is the Second Historical Archives of China (SHAC), enjoying prestige both at home and abroad for its extensive holdings of records of the central governments and their subordinate organs of the Republican era of 1912 to 1949. more ...      Introduction to our Holdings               The Second Historical Archives of China (SHAC) is one of three national-level archives, and was the first to be established after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of the State Archives Bureau. The other two are the Central Committee Archives of the CCP  and the First Historical Archives of China. SHAC's responsibility is to conserve and process Republican-era records and facilitate public access to them. The work of the Archives is carried out by the Archive Processing and Cataloguing Department, the Conservation Department, the Public Services Department, the Technical Department, the Computing Center, and the Compilation Department. The National Center for Cataloguing Republican Archives and the journal Republican Archives are also housed at the Archives. The mission of the SHAC is to collect, arrange, catalogue, preserve, compile, and facilitate the use of the holdings of the Archives. SHAC is equipped with microfilming, photocopying, and computer equipment. Various types of finding aids are available. more ...