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Private Archives in China

Published/Copyright: December 10, 2007
Libri
From the journal Volume 52 Issue 4

National legislation often permits state archival authorities to acquire archives created or owned by private entities. The 1988 Archives Law of the People's Republic of China directs state archival bodies to monitor the status of private archives of enduring value to the Chinese state and society or which contain information of a confidential nature; the authorities may acquire these archives under certain conditions. The Archives Law also grants independent disposition authority to private owners within established parameters and within the context of the state's exercise of ultimate appraisal authority. A case study of private enterprise archives, together with comparisons between Chinese and other models of national legislation, reveals the problematic formulation of this appraisal authority, especially as the scope of private archives is augmented to include an expanded set of private entities.

James E. Nalen, Social Sciences Librarian, University Libraries, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-1709, USA. Tel. 330-972-2327 (Office), 330-972-7225 (Fax), , http://www.uakron.edu/libraries/
Received: 2001-12
Received: 2002-06
Received: 2002-08-03
Accepted: 2002-08-08
Published Online: 2007-12-10
Published in Print: 2002-December

© 2002 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, Federal Republic of Germany

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https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2002.241

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Editorial: Driving Change in the Profession: Papers presented at the Section on Education and Training Workshop during IFLA 2002, Glasgow, Scotland, August 2002
  2. The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and Subject Review: The Viewpoint of the Assessor
  3. Going for Gold
  4. The UK Research Assessment Exercise 2001
  5. Driving Change in the Profession: Subject Benchmarking in UK Library and Information Management
  6. The Role of Professional Body Accreditation in Library & Information Science Education in the UK
  7. Web Logs as Indices of Electronic Journal Use: Tools for Identifying a “Classic” Article
  8. An International Standard on Records Management: An Opportunity for Librarians
  9. Private Archives in China
  10. Macroenvironmental Analysis for Strategic Management: Stakeholders' View of Ghana's University Libraries
  11. 2003 Annual Award for the Best Libri Student Paper
  12. Table of Contents: Vol. 52, No. 1–4
  13. Author Index: Vol. 52, No. 1–4
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