Foreign Office files for China, 1949-1980Sources from the National Archives UK. Monash has access to: 1949-1956: The Communist revolution; 1957-1966: The Great Leap Forward; 1967-1980: The Cultural Revolution. Material includes British diplomatic dispatches, originating in both London and China, correspondence, both government and private, newspaper cuttings/transcriptions and translations of press reports, minutes of meetings, political, economic and military analyses, statistical tables, biographies of prominent figures, reports of visits, investigations, published booklets and leaflets, posters, propaganda and annual reports, detailing events in a territory.