Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students. This database includes:

• Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955
• Chinese Maritime Customs Service Publications
• Chinese Maritime Customs Service: The Customs' Gazette, 1869-1913
• Country Intelligence Reports on China, 1941-1961
• Minutes of the Shanghai Municipal Council
• Papers of British Consulates and Legation in China, 1727-1951
• Papers of Old Shanghai: Business, Banking, and Insurance
• Papers of Old Shanghai: Press, Education, Healthcare, and Charity
• Papers of Old Shanghai: Social Shanghai
• Papers of Old Shanghai: Societies and Clubs
• Records of US State Department's Division of Chinese Affairs
• Service Lists and Reports of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service and Whangpoo Conservancy Board
• Shanghai Municipal Council: The Municipal Gazette, 1908-1942
• Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China Relations, 1989-1993

Databases with complimentary access until 30 June 2025:

• The Amerasia Affair, China, and Postwar Anti-Communist Fervor
• China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1930-1939: Part 1
• China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1930-1939: Part 2
• China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1940-1944
• China: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1949
• The Earl George Macartney Collection
• Economic Cooperation Administration’s Relief Mission in Post-War China, 1946-1948
• Evangelism in China: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1837-1911
• FBI File on Owen Lattimore
• General George C. Marshall's Mission to China, 1945-1947
• German Foreign Relations and Military Activities in China 1919-1935
• Military Leaders of World War I: Official and Private Papers of Generaloberst Hans von Seeckt
• Norman Bethune Papers
• Papers of American Missionaries to Asia: Arthur M. Guttery and YMCA China, 1919-1981
• Papers of American Missionaries to Asia: The Ashmore Family in China, Thailand, and Japan, 1850-1937
• Papers of American Missionaries to Asia: Jay C. and Lucile C. Oliver and YMCA China, 1905-1979
• Papers of American Missionaries to Asia: Missionaries associated with Fujian and Taiwan, 1889-1976
• Papers of Old Shanghai: Miscellanies
• The Papers of Sir Ernest Mason Satow
• Policing the Shanghai International Settlement, 1894-1945
• Political Relations and Conflict between Republican China and Imperial Japan, 1930-1939: Records of the U.S. State Department
• Political Relations Between China, the U.S. and Other Countries, 1910-1929
• Political, Economic, and Military Conditions in China: Reports and Correspondence of the U.S. Military Intelligence Division, 1918-1941
• Records of the National Council for United States-China Trade, 1973-1983
• Records of the U.S. Information Service in China: Chinese Press Reviews and Summaries, 1944-1950
• Shanghai International Settlement: Shanghai Municipal Council Reports, Minutes of Ratepayers Meetings, and Shanghai Volunteer Corps
• Shanghai International Settlement: Urban Planning and Development
• Subject Files of US State Department’s Office of the Republic of China Affairs (1951-1978)