满铁资料的界定

Definition of Documents of Manchurian Railway

满铁资料是指南满洲铁道株式会社(简称满铁)在其存续的近40年间所形成和收藏的大量档案、情报资料和图书,对其准确界定是进行满铁研究的基础。然而,由于满铁的组织机构庞杂、人员众多,导致满铁资料具有多样性。因此,对于满铁组织机构加以准确界定成为界定满铁资料的前提,并以此为基础界定狭义的满铁资料和广义的满铁资料。

Documents of Manchurian Railway refer to rich collections of archives,important intelligences and books,which were produced and collected by the South Manchurian Railway Company（Manchurian Railway） during 40 years of its existence.Definition of documents of Manchurian Railway is a basic requirement of study on it.However,complicated organizations and numerous workers of Manchurian Railway brought on the diversity of documents of Manchurian Railway.Thus,definition of organizations of Manchurian Railway serves as a basic requirement for understanding documents of Manchurian Railway,and then for defining a narrow definition and a broad definition of documents of Manchurian Railway.