Qing Chao Xu Wen Xian Tong Kao is the final volume in China's comprehensive political history book series, the "Ten Volumes". The historical materials contained in this book on archival history have a wide range of sources, ranging from ancient to modern times. It combines narrative and critical analysis, paying particular attention to comparisons between ancient and modern practices and those between Chinese and foreign methods. The materials it contains truthfully reveal various changes that occurred as late Qing Dynasty archives and archival work transitioned from traditional to modern practices. It provides a relatively complete representation of the modernization process of late Qing Dynasty archives and archival work in such aspects as the emergence of archival institutions, archival officials, new archival carriers, special archives, and changes in the document system, which is of great academic and historical value.