Introduction
Qiu Mingdong (courtesy name Zijing, 1913–2004), the second brother of General Qiu Qingquan (1902–1949), held the positions of county head commissioner of Dali and of Yiliang, both in Yunnan, and after moving to Taiwan, served as a division head in the Central and the Southern Region Branches of the National Property Administration, Ministry of Finance. This collection had originally been organized by Qiu himself and later donated to the Archives by representatives of his family in December 2019. Contents include his personal documents, official missives from various government agencies, resumes, correspondences, manuscripts, photographs, audio recordings of interviews, brief reports on Dali in the early Republican Era of China, documents related to a fraud case regarding the identity of General Qiu Qingquan, as well as a collection of books on the Battle of the Yunnan-Burma Road and the Second Sino-Japanese War.