"Qiao Pi Archives" was successfully selected into the Memory of the World Asia Pacific Directory

"Qiao Pi Archives" was successfully selected into the Memory of the World Asia Pacific Directory "Qiao Pi Archives" was successfully selected into the Memory of the World Asia Pacific Directory 2...

"Qiao Pi Archives" was successfully selected into the Memory of the World Asia Pacific Directory "Qiao Pi Archives" was successfully selected into the Memory of the World Asia Pacific Directory In 2013, the Memory of the World Register project will be launched Wu Xiaoqiong Yang Li From May 14 to 16, 2012, at the 5th plenary session of the UNESCO Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Regional Committee held in Bangkok, Thailand, the "Overseas Chinese Approval File" jointly applied by Guangdong and Fujian provinces in China was successfully selected into the Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Regional Directory after expert voting and recommendation. This is another major progress made in the application process of the "Qiaopi Archives" after being selected into the "China Archives and Documents Heritage List" in February 2010, and it is one step closer to the ultimate goal of being selected into the "Memory of the World List". "Qiao Pi Archives" has also become Guangdong's first Memory of the World Asia-Pacific region directory project. After hearing the news, Executive Vice Governor Xiao Zhiheng, Vice Governor Xu Ruisheng, Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Government Yang Shaosen and other leaders expressed their congratulations. A total of 5 nomination projects were reviewed at this conference, 2 of which were from China, namely "Overseas Chinese Archives" (applicant: China Guangdong Provincial Archives Bureau and Fujian Provincial Archives Bureau) and "Yuan Dynasty Tibet Archives" (applicant: China Tibet Autonomous Region Archives Bureau), both of which were successfully selected into the Asia-Pacific Memory of the World Directory. So far, the number of items included in the list in China has increased to 5. The other 3 items are "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Huangdi Neijing" and archival documents of the Catholic Macau Diocese (16th to 19th centuries). In 2011, "Compendium of Materia Medica" and "Huangdi Neijing" were successfully selected into the Memory of the World Register. Qiaopi is the collective name for letters and remittances sent by overseas Chinese to their families in their hometown through private channels and later financial and postal institutions. It is also called "bank letter". It is a folk document, often written continuously on a family basis. In addition to family affairs, its content also widely involves the economy, politics, culture, transportation, social life, and even military and international relations of the country of residence and the place of emigration. The records are detailed and information-rich, and can be mutually confirmed and supplemented by official classics and documents. Qiaobiao not only truly records the migration process of Chinese international immigrants to Asia, the United States, Oceania and other regions since the mid-19th century, but also records the collision and integration of foreign cultures in rural areas of South China. It also reflects the historical and cultural changes of the country where immigrants live. Therefore, with its unique originality, folk character, integrity and non-renewable characteristics, it has outstanding world significance and heritage value in modern international immigration documents. It is the most original and precious archival document for studying the history of modern overseas Chinese, family history, economic history, social history, cultural history, financial history, postal history, overseas transportation history, international relations history, and the history and culture of the country of residence. The overseas Chinese mainly come from Southeast Asia and the United States and Canada in North America, with a small amount coming from Australia, Cuba, Mexico and other countries. They are basically consistent with the distribution of overseas Chinese in various countries around the world. Currently, there are as many as 160,000 overseas Chinese batch archives and related documents preserved in Guangdong and Fujian, China, which are concentrated in Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Township, Wuyi Overseas Chinese Township, Meizhou Overseas Chinese Township in Guangdong, and Xiamen, Quanzhou, Fuzhou and other overseas Chinese hometowns in Fujian. Among them, Guangdong has the largest number of overseas Chinese approvals, with about 150,000 existing ones, and Fujian has about 11,000 overseas Chinese approvals. These overseas overseas Chinese batches were produced in large numbers after the mid-19th century, and it took nearly 150 years until 1979, when the overseas overseas Chinese batch business was centralized and managed by the Bank of China. The Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Government attach great importance to the application of the Overseas Chinese Approval Archives as World Heritage. Governor Zhu Xiaodan, Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor Xiao Zhiheng, and Vice Governor Lei Yulan have all given important instructions. In November 2011, the provincial government also set up a leading group for the application of the "Overseas Chinese Approved Archives" to the Memory of the World Register, allocated special funds, and actively carried out the application of the "Overseas Chinese Approved Archives" for the Memory of the World Register. Archives departments across the province have done a lot of fruitful work for the application. The Guangdong Provincial Archives Bureau played a leading role in the joint application. The Shantou, Jiangmen, Meizhou Municipal Archives Bureaus, Wuyi University, Chaoshan Historical and Cultural Research Center, etc. undertook a large amount of preparation work for the application. In March this year, the archives bureaus of Guangdong and Fujian provinces jointly submitted an application to UNESCO, seeking to list the Overseas Chinese Approval Archives as a Memory of the World Register item at the 2013 International Advisory Committee Review Meeting for the Memory of the World Register.