Lee Tung-hai Donates Historical Manuscripts to Central Library

In January, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the Deputy Director of the Committee of Historical Materials of the CPPCC, Mr Leo Lee Tung-hai, donated on behalf of the CPPCC, a collection of manuscripts documenting contemporary history of China to the Hong Kong Central Library.

In receiving the donation, the Secretary for Home Affairs, Dr Patrick Ho said that the collection was one of the most important documentation on modern Chinese history and would be a great piece of information for the public's reference and research.

The collection, which comes in 26 volumes and 35 millions of Chinese characters, has just been published after four years of massive research and editorial work. It covers contemporary history from late Qing Dynasty to the year 1949.

The collection is now available for public reference at the Central Reference Library of the Hong Kong Central Library.