Introduction
This collection is the family documents of Retired Professor Kuo-chun Li of the Department of Chinese Literature at National Central University. Contents include the deeds of farm fields, oyster farms, and other properties from Kinmen as well as loan registers and other documents passed down through the generations, which remarkably stretch from 1806 during the reign of the Jiaqing Emperor (r. 1796–1820) to 1940. Other items of interest include sixty-nine items left by Li’s father when he traveled to the southern coastal regions of China, namely Nanyang, in the early Republican Era, as well as thirty-five early photographs and postcards. The archival materials of Li’s family were the first digitization project undertook by the Archives, with the electronic files being preserved by the Archives and the originals having been returned to the family.